Agenda

Networking with coffee and pastries provided.

The panel will discuss the state of geospatial in Africa, the challenges of accessing and applying earth data to some of the critical climate challenges the continent is facing. What do we need to do as a sector to facilitate adoption?

• A new approach to valuing water - Adriana Calderon
• The Benefits and Drawbacks of Data Fusion in Sustainable Precision Agriculture - Morten Fjord
• The evolution of a wildfire through the lens of Earth Observation - Florian Fichtner
• From Space to the Ground: Using EO to Prioritise Aid During Afghanistan’s Earthquake Disaster - Júlia Conejero
• Using remote sensing to monitor livestock routes in Sudan - Oliver Mundy
• Lightning Demo of GeoAid Navigator - David Taverner

Earth observation has been leading the work to identify and monitor the devastating consequences of war on the environment and people. New insights and methods are providing a more granular understanding fo these impacts, and help humanitarian responders and other stakeholders to provide better assistance, while supporting recovery efforts. This panel will bring together different experts that use remote sensing in their work in conflict-affected areas and discuss challenges and opportunties moving ahead.

The rise of foundational models has changed the AI landscape fundamentally, and brings its promise to geospatial data. Geospatial foundation models have the potential to produce useful results faster and cheaper than any previous approaches. Automated detection of critical semantic elements in imagery such as floods or deforestation is becoming possible. We explore real world applications of these new models, and pose the question: how do we crack the code and make the earth truly queryable?

Traditional file formats used in climate data, such as GRIB, NetCDF and GeoTIFF, have long been the backbone of Earth observation and climate research. However, as the volume and complexity of climate data continue to grow, these legacy formats face significant challenges in terms of scalability, accessibility, and processing efficiency. This session will explore how cloud-optimized geospatial formats offer a transformative opportunity for the climate science community.

Insights from Earth Observation data can be of great value to organisations and businesses. Funding organisations can use EO data to track their investments or to measure and evaluate their impact. Other businesses may rely on Earth Observation insights to provide relevant information for climate-related financial disclosures or risk assessments. However, the landscape of EO data and products is complex to navigate. How can organisations and businesses integrate and adopt Earth Observation into their processes and workflows? What are the drivers and barriers? How can organisations be better supported in their adoption of EO data and products?

Lunch is provided and we hope you are able to catch up with colleagues and meet new people.

Panelists explore the monitoring value chain: from how we collect and process data, to how we distil and deliver insights from it. Which parts of the stack have we solved, and where do we still have work to do as a sector? Who will pay for all the monitoring we need to do?

A discussion about various authentication and authorization strategies used within the STAC ecosystem.

Join us to improve the STAC render extension:

• discuss the potential evolution of the extension
• help integrate render in TiTiler (python)
• add tab in stac-viewer to select the rendering (javascript)
• test, play and demonstrate new rendering capabilities