A outline of the NCEO Conference 2024 can be found below.
#UKEO2024 Abstract Booklet
Find out more about the presenters and the talks in each session
Tuesday 10th September
Wednesday 11th September
Thursday 12th September
Poster Session 2
Poster Session 3
Tuesday 10th September
Tuesday 10th September
Time
Session Title
08:00
Registration Opens: Lecture theatre 1/2
09:00-09:30
Welcome to UK National EO Conference
09:30-10:30
Keynote: Susanne Mecklenburg (Head of climate and long-term action division ESA)
Leveraging the ESA-UK Partnership to Deliver Climate Action
10:30-11:00
BREAK
11:00-12:00
Session 1A – Terrestrial Environmental Monitoring
Lecture theatre 1
Session 1B – Climate Data Studies 1
Lecture theatre 2
Session 1C – ML & Algorithm Development for Atmospheric Applications
Teaching room 4/5
Session 1D – Uncertainty & Calibration
Teaching room 1
Mat Disney
Sarah Cheesbrough
Sarah Dance
Luke Smallman
- Martin Wooster
- Abigail Marie Waring
- Felipe Husadel Poyer
- Charlotte J. Paton
- Fergus Craig
- Ka Lok Chan
- Paul Palmer
- Sammy Petch
- Elisa Carboni
- Fang Chen
- Jawairia A. Ahmad
- Lakshmi Naduparambil Bharathan
- Jonathan Murray
- Pieter De Vis
- Morven Sinclair
12:00-13:30
LUNCH
13:30-14:30
Session 2A – The Business of EO
Lecture theatre 1
Session 2B – Climate Data Studies 2
Lecture theatre 2
Session 2C – Future EO Missions, Mission Development & Validation 1
Teaching room 4/5
Session 2D – EO Environmental Monitoring – Water Quality
Teaching room 1
Krupa Nanda Kumar
Helen Brindley
Mark Bown
Mark Warren
- Daniel Potts
- Gareth Thomas
- Jason Hopkins
- Mathias Disney
Keynote: Richard Allan
- Zixia Liu
- Martyn Chipperfield
- Daniel Gerber
- James O’Connor
- Ben Stern
- Steve Hancock
- Aidan Byrne
- Barbara Hofmann
- Davide Lomeo
- Mayra Rodriguez
14:30-15:00
BREAK
15:00-17:00
Session 3A – EO for Society & Education
Teaching room 4/5
Session 3B – EO Information Services (EO DataHub)
Lecture theatre 1
Session 3C – Fusion of remote sensing data and models
Teaching room 1
Session 3D – Environmental Monitoring – Atmosphere
Lecture theatre 2
Martin Smye-Rumsby
Alexandra Barker
Ivo Pasmans
Adam Povey
Keynote: Fei Yao
- Calum Hoad
- Jade Bowling
- Luke Bateson
- Stephanie Mottershead
Keynote: Federica Moscato
- Alasdair Kyle
- Alastar Graham
- Andrew Tewkesbury
- Samantha Malone
- Luisa Teixeira
Keynote: Guannan Hu
- Christopher M. Taylor
- Elizabeth Good
- Emily Lear
- Sukun Cheng
- Yumeng Chen
- Alexander Kurganskiy
- Antonio Giovanni Bruno
- Dr Harjinder Sembhi
- Jeremy Harrison
- Richard Siddans
- Rui Song
- Sarah Cheesbrough
17:00-19:00
POSTER SESSION AND DRINKS RECEPTION
Wednesday 11th September
Wednesday 11th September
Time
Session Title
08:00
Registration Opens
0900:10:00
Session 4A – Future EO Missions, Mission Development & Validation
Lecture 1
Session 4B – Novel Applications and Machine Learning
Lecture 2
Session 4C – Environmental Monitoring – Water
Teaching Room 4/5
Session 4D – Vegetation Applications 1
Teaching Room 1
Steve Hancock
Bronwyn Scholes
Daniel Clewley
Natalie Douglas
- Robert Elliott
- Stephen Hobbs
- Prateek Dongre
- Agnieszka Soszynska
- Keneuoe Anne Maliehe
- Jonathan Walsh
- Chlöe Schooling
- Geoff Smith
- Aser Mata
- Christopher Merchant
- Laura Risley
- Yanna Alexia Fidai
- Ross Maidment
- Gerardo Lopez Saldana
- Vahid Akbari
10:00-10:15
BREAK
10:15-11:00
TRUTHS: Voice for the future
11:00-11:30
POSTER SESSION 2 AND REFRESHMENTS
11:30-12:30
Keynote: Beth Greenway (UK Space Agency): Earth Observation – UK Government perspectives
12:30-14:00
EXTENDED LUNCH AND POSTERS
14:00-15:15
Session 5A – Vegetation Applications 2
Lecture 1
Session 5B – Climate Data Studies 3
Lecture 2
Session 5C – ML & Algorithm Development for Marine Applications
Teaching Room 4/5
Session 5D – Understanding and Monitoring Radiation
Teaching Room 1
13:00-15:00
RSPSoc EGM & AGM
Luke Smallman
Susanne Mecklenburg
Daniel Clewley
Richard Allan
Teaching Room 2
- Biao Hu
- Khomkrit Onkaew
- Natalie Douglas
- Angela Harris
- Luke Brown
Keynote: Dr Paul Green
- Liang Feng
- Fei Yao
- Laura Carrea
Keynote: Ieuan Higgs
- Amy Tyndall
- Ivo Pasmans
- Jozef Skakala
Keynote: Helen Brindley
- Adam Povey
- Jeremy Harrison
15:15-15:45
BREAK
15:45-17:15
Session 6A – EO Information Services
Lecture 1
Session 6B – Climate Data Studies (EOCIS)
Lecture 2
Session 6C – Crop Monitoring
Teaching Room 4/5
Session 6D – Wildfire
Teaching Room 1
Federica Moscato
Cristina Ruiz Villena
Mat Disney
Martin Wooster
- Ben Calton
- Chandra Taposeea Fisher
- Owen Hawkins
- Steve Donegan
- Jacob Fahy
- Peter North
- Karen L Veal
- Mike Perry
- Owen Embury
- Theo H. Morgan Lundie
- Alex Cornelius
- Feng Yin
- Matthew Payne
- Andualem Aklilu
- Erin Goh Bing Bing
- Zhongwei Liu
- David Moore
- Akram Abdullah
- Michaela Flegrova
- Susie Shihan Sun
- William Maslanka
17:15-17:45
POSTER SESSION 3 AND REFRESHMENTS
17:45-19:00
BREAK
19:00-22:00
EVENING EVENT AND RSPSoc AWARDS at Principal Hotel
Thursday 12th September
Thursday 12th September
Time
Session Title
08:00
Registration
09:00-10:00
Thorsten Fehr (Head of Atmospheric Section ESA) – Lecture Theatre 1 & 2
ESA’s EO space infrastructure: current and future, including highlights from EarthCARE
10:00-11:00
Session 7A – Vegetation Applications – Grassland and Drought
Lecture 1
Session 7B – Climate Data Studies 4
Lecture 2
Session 7C – ML & Algorithm Development for Terrestrial Applications
Teaching Room 4/5
Session 7D – Snow
Teaching Room 1
Meredith Williams
Paul Palmer
Ian Dee
Jonathan Murray
- Geoff Smith
- Bethan Harris
- Samuel Valman
- Luke Smallman
- Luke Smallman
- Mark Warren
- Richard Pope
- Omar Mohamed
- Professor Liangxiu Han
- Ranjini Swaminathan
- Khunsa Fatima
- Richard Kelly
- Leam Howe
11:00-11:30
BREAK
11:30-13:00
Session 8A – Vegetation Applications – Forestry
Lecture 1
Session 8B – Digital Twins
Lecture 2
Session 8C – The Business of EO 2
Teaching Room 4/5
Session 8D – Novel Instruments, Applications and Approaches
Teaching Room 1
TBC
Rob Parker
Emma Hatton
Martin Smye-Rumsby
- Chuanze Li
- Daniela Rivera-Marin
- Martin Mokroš
- Nezha Acil
- Wanxin Yang
- Meg Stretton
Keynote: Heiko Balzter
- Dale Partridge
- Garin Smith
- Cristina Ruiz Villena
- UK-EONS
- Mark Hallows
- Ryan Laird
- Caius Reza
Keynote: Shannon Mason
- Lucy Ventress
- Anna Michalska
- Dr Samantha Lavender
- Matt Berrington
13:00-14:00
LUNCH
14:00-15:00
Panel session: EO Satellites for the next decades: the future is bright?
Beth Greenaway (UK Space Agency), Florian Deconinck (Open-Cosmos), Thorsten Fehr (ESA); Ben Stern (UK Space EOC)
Chaired by Anushka Sharma (SPAN)
Lecture Theatre 1/2
15:00
15:10
Final Remarks
Close
Teaching Room 1
Teaching Room 1
Poster Session 2
POSTER SESSION 2
Presenter
Poster Title
Poster No
Session No
Adriana Iorga,
University of Leicester
Investigating the NH3 Daily Cycle over SE Asia Using Combined IASI and CrIS Satellite Observations
1
2
Peter Huggard,
RAL Space
Direct detection receivers for millimetre wave radiometry
2
2
Aidan Byrnes,
Natural History Museam
LAQUA: a LAke water QUality retrieval tool for east Africa
3
2
Alison Waterfall,
STFC
Development of a metadata bridge for Essential Climate Variable data
4
2
Amy Tyndall,
EOLAS Insight
Trustable AI-generated Mapping for Environmental Purposes.
5
2
Amy Tyndall,
EOLAS Insight
Satellite data driven services for wildlife management activities in Africa..
6
2
Andrew Matheson,
University of Edinburgh
Satellite data driven services for wildlife management activities in Africa.
7
2
Antonio Giovanni Bruno,
University of Leicester
Generative NWP as a Tool for Predicting Extreme Precipitation Events
8
2
Astrid M. Zimmermann,
NPL
Uncertainty assessment, validation, and propagation for upcoming hyperspectral missions
9
2
Ben Courtier
University of Leicester
A joint land surface temperature and emissivity retrieval using multiple daily overpasses
10
2
Ben Lane, Simon Blackshaw
STFC
Microwave radiometer for ammonia monitoring
11
2
Ben Mudge
University of Leicester
Detecting heat stress signatures over Indian intensive agricultural regions with TROPOSIF.
12
2
Daniel Clewley
PML
The NERC Earth Observation Data Analysis and AI Service (NEODAAS)
13
2
Daniel Coxon
University of Leicester
SPectroscopy In The Far InfraREd: Reducing uncertainties in spectroscopic line parameters for ESA’s FORUM mission
14
2
Louis Chipperfield
University of Leeds
Investigating the Influence of Solar Irradiance on Ozone Variability: A Focus on the 27-Day Solar Cycle
30
2
Maria Paula Velasquez Garcia/ Richard Pope
University of Leeds
Process-based evaluation and uncertainty quantification of South American wildfire emissions: INFERNO
31
2
Martin Wooster
Kings College London
NCEO Airborne Earth Observatory Accomplishments in 2023-24
32
2
Martyn Chipperfield
University of Leeds
The Changing-Atmosphere Infra-Red Tomography Explorer (CAIRT): A Candidate for ESA EE-11
33
2
Mateus de Souza Macul
University of Leicester
Investigating Land Tenure Spatial Distribution in the Brazilian Amazon Using Power-Law Scaling
34
2
Mateusz Gralak/Tomislav
Spyrasoft
EODH Integration: simplifying access and compute
35
2
Mayra Rodriguez
PML
Global trends of marine ecological indicators: The ocean ecosystem’s response to climate forcing
36
2
Morven Sinclair
NPL
Application of BRDF Model Optimisation Using In-Situ Measurements From the LANDHYPERNET HYPSTAR-XR Instrument Over Satellite Cal/Val Site in Gobabeb, Namibia
37
2
Neil Humpage
University of Leicester
The Greenhouse gas Emissions Monitoring network to Inform Net-zero Initiatives for the UK (GEMINI-UK): towards a new national capability for greenhouse gas observations
38
2
Niall McCarroll
University of Reading
Tools for preparing ML ready EO data
39
2
Oliver Gutteridge
Natural England
From Peat to Pixels: The England Peat Map
40
2
Professor Liangxiu Han
Scalable Deep Learning and Its Application to Remotely Sensed Data
41
2
Quddus Adeyemi Busari
Newcastle University
Scaling up tree health monitoring systems to landscapes
42
2
Rebekah Megarity and Evelyn Lowndes
Dept of Finance, NI
OSNI EO Hub to streamline access to EO resources for use in Northern Ireland public sector
43
2
Rhys Evans
STFC
STAC at EODH
44
2
Poster Session 3
POSTER SESSION 3
Presenter
Poster Title
Poster No
Session No
Daniel Ormsby
Sparkgeo
EODH Integration: climate application combining projections and observations
15
3
Daniel Westwood
STFC
Making CEDA datasets cloud accessible
16
3
Darren Ghent
University of Leicester
Land Surface Temperature CCI: approaches to long-term data for climate
17
3
David Mason
University of Reading
Improved urban flood detection in deeper floods using Synthetic Aperture Radar double scattering intensity and interferometric coherence.
18
3
Dr Emal Rumi
STFC
BARODAR: Active Microwave Surface Air-Pressure Sensing Using Small Satellite Constellation
19
3
Elisa Carboni
STFC
Decomposition of satellite datasets: relationship between cloud properties, radiative fluxes and climate indices.
20
3
Erin Goh Bing Bing
Soton
Leveraging Earth Observation Data to Enhance Tree Crop Production and Resilience in a Changing Australian Climate: The FruitSense Project.
21
3
Fang Chen
University of Leicester
Automatic Methane Plume Detection in Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery
22
3
Felipe Husadel Poyer
INPE
Land-use change analysis for wind and solar power plants installations in Brazil using remote sensing
23
3
Hannah Picton
A reassessment of the role of atmospheric and oceanic forcing on ice dynamics at Jakobshavn Isbræ (Sermeq Kujalleq), Ilulissat Icefjord.
24
3
Jade Bowling
Natural England
Harnessing Earth Observation for nature: Living England habitat maps
25
3
Keith Haines
University of Reading
Experiments with a Kalman smoothing post-processor applied to a 20th-century ocean reanalysis
26
3
Laura Risley
University of Reading
Implications of alternative velocity control variables in variational ocean data assimilation
27
3
Lavinia Toso
University of Leicester
HCl in the stratosphere: A comparison between simulated (TOMCAT) and observational (ACE-FTS) distributions
28
3
Riccardo William Monfardini
STFC
Diurnal bias of ERA5
45
3
Ross Bannister
University of Reading
Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses between IASI and HIRS: a new calibration procedure
46
3
Sandip Dhomse
University of Leeds
Machine learning to construct long-term data
47
3
Sanjeevani Panditharatne
Imperial College London
Improving retrievals of cirrus clouds by exploiting the far-infrared
48
3
Shaerdan Shataer
University of Reading
High-Resolution Land Surface Temperature (LST) Downscaling on the CHUK Grid Using Deep Neural Networks with HadUK T2M, Land Cover, and Albedo Inputs
49
3
Shrijana Poudel
University of Leicester
Anomaly Detection in Burned Area using Isolation Forest – A Case Study of Madagascar
50
3
Sophie Mosselmans
Imperial College London
How can in-situ Far Infrared Measurements help constrain the atmospheric state
51
3
Stamatia Doniki
STFC
Harwell UK TCCON: Maintaining high quality GHG data over 3 years of operation
52
3
Supriya Mantri
University of Leicester
High resolution aerosol and surface reflectance retrieval and validation using Sentinel-2
53
3
Téo Bloch
Telespazio
Improving wildfire risk forecasting with remote sensing data and CMIP6 climate models
54
3
Thomas Laraia
University of Edinburgh
(S)nowhere to Hide: Using Satellite LiDAR to See Snow Through Forest Canopies
55
3
Visweshwaran
University of Reading
Improving Soil Moisture Estimates from the JULES Land Surface Model through 4D-EnVar Hybrid Assimilation of COSMOS-UK soil moisture Observations
56
3
William Jay
PML
NEODAAS Airborne EO Data Processing: Recent Updates
57
3
Yanna Alexia Fidai
PML
Trends in coastal ocean primary productivity
58
3
Yumeng Chen
University of Reading
A Python interface to parallel data assimilation framework: pyPDAF
59
3