Prague 2019

OPENING SESSION(Chair: Wim DEVOS, JRC D5)

Keynote from Pavel SEKÁČ, Czech Deputy Minister of Agriculture
Keynote from SZIF, Martin ŠEBESTYÁN (Dir. General)
Keynote from DG AGRI, Pierre BASCOU (Dir. D)
Keynote from JRC, Wim DEVOS on Behalf of Bettina BARUTH (JRC D5)
Keynote from GSA - European’s GNSS Programmes for European Citizens, Fiammetta DIANI (GSA)

SESSION: 25 YEARS of MARS CONFERENCES (Chair: Lucie ŠAVELKOVÁ, SZIF - CZ)

1) Early Stages of IACS (1993-2000) - After early years and those to come, Olivier LEO, Philippe LOUDJANI (JRC D5)
2) 25 years of MARS conference - Participant point of view, Emmanuel DE LAROCHE, Alain PETITJEAN (ASP, FR)

SESSION: THE STATE OF AFFAIRS 2019-2020 (Chair: Wim DEVOS, JRC D5)

3) IACS and implementation support: an update, Johanna STAWOWY on behalf of Pierluigi LONDERO (DG AGRI D3)
4) After 10 years QA, what is the quality of the EU LPISs?, Nataša LUKETIC (JRC D5)
5) What the CwRS imagery tells us, Pär ÅSTRAND (JRC D5)
6) New technical developments, Pavel MILENOV, Aleksandra SIMA, Dominique FASBENDER, Blanka VAJSOVA (JRC D5)

SESSION: CbM IMPLEMENTATION OUTCOMES (Chair: Antonia KNABBEN, MoA - DE)

7) Supporting Checks by Monitoring Implementation and Uptake in 2019 / Technical support to the Checks by Monitoring “a high speed train”, Ana BRNCIC (DG AGRI D3), Wim DEVOS (JRC D5)
8) Implementing Checks by Monitoring in Denmark, Troels SØNDERGÅRD, Peter EIGAARD (LBST, DK)
9) How we checked 340,000 ha and paid 63 million € from 1st pillar using Monitoring, Francisco Javier ROJO REVILLA (Castilla y León, ES)
10) Parcel monitoring in Flanders 2019, Kristof VANOOST, Pieter ROGGEMANS (DAF, BE-FL)
11) audit on the use of new technologies – results of the survey, Jindrich DOLEZAL, Paulo BRAZ (ECA)

SESSION: WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING?

12) Implementation of and assurance in the new delivery model, Christina BORCHMANN (DG AGRI H)

SESSION: CbM/AMS PREPARATIONS (Chair: Pierluigi LONDERO, DG GRI D3)

13) CbM/AMS; the puzzle of visions and reality from the PA perspective, Lucie ŠAVELKOVÁ (SZIF, CZ)
14) Sen4CAP - lessons from the 2019 season in 7 countries, Sophie BONTEMPS (UCL, BE), Benjamin KOETZ (ESA)
15) Using Copernicus multi-temporal data: implementation challenges and short-term perspectives, Cristian FLUERARU (Terrasign, RO)
16) Agricultural Crop Monitoring and Assessment driven by Satellites, Lubos KUCERA (GISAT, CZ)
17) CbM Pilot experience in Wallonia (Belgium) and future prospects, Beatrice LETEINTURIER, Aberdeen RENKIN (BE-WA)

SESSION: DATA SHARING SOLUTIONS AND INTEROPERABILITY (Chair: Alenka ROTTER, MoA - SI)

18) data sharing, Mohamed EL AYDAM (DG Agri D3)
19) Outcome of the data sharing pilot - Metadata pilot on IACS data sharing Czech experience, Pavel MILENOV (JRC D5), Kateřina NOVOTNÁ (SZIF, CZ)
20) data: making it work for climate policy, Simon KAY (DG CLIMA C3)
21) What good can come out of sharing IACS data?, Grega MILCHINSKI (Synergise, SI)

SESSION: FARMER INTERACTION (Chair: Bernadett CSONKA, HST – HU)

22) Farmer interaction experience in 2019, Laura RUANA PAVON (Catalunya, ES)
23) Bringing simplification to the farmers through a claimless system, Salvatore CARFI (AGEA, IT)
24) The Big Picture: Using AI to verify a large amount of geotagged photos provided by farmers, Alexander MAXA (Ibykus, DE)
25) EGNSS4CAP the role of EGNOS and Galileo, Joaquin REYES GONZALEZ (GSA)
26) CAP monitoring and farmer interaction from the farmer’s point of view, Maria SKOVAGER ØSTERGAARD (Copa-Cogeca)

SESSION: DELIVERING A PERFORMANT CAP (Chair: Alan BELWARD, JRC D5)

27) COP4N2K: monitoring grasslands in Natura 2000 sites. A first project for supporting the habitat directive with EO, Bruno COMBAL (DG ENV D3)
28) Monitoring of small farmers scheme in Aragon (Spain), Samuel ESTEBAN RODRÍGUEZ (Aragon, ES)
29) U-Space: Alternative approach for checks and monitoring, Alexa ŠTĚPÁN (UpVision, CZ)
30) Identification of abandoned parcels with aerial images and Deep Learning, Roberto HERRERO (Tragsatec, ES)

CLOSURE

31) Final Discussion and wrap-up, Wim DEVOS (JRC D5)

First session

1) Christina BUTSKO, ONESOIL, UA, Onesoil experience in field delineation and crop classification on large scale using S2 data
2) Irmgard RUNKEL, GEOSYSTEMS, DE, Highly automated process for the eligible forage areas on pastures by means for EO-data (Sentinel and Planet data)
3) Lotte NYBORG, DHI GRAS, DK, Marker development and infrastructure setup for monitoring in Denmark
4) Emanuel AZZOPARDI, ARPA, MT, First year of Area Monitoring System
5) Carsten HAUB, EFTAS, DE, 2 years IACS monitoring pilots - selected German cases: approach, results and way ahead
6) Melanie WAGNER, GAF, DE, Monitoring & beyond
7) Stefan SCHERER, Geocledian, DE, Online integration of EU-monitoring into IACS
8) Cornelis VALK, NEO, NL, Operational NRT nation-wide mowing detection
9) Kenneth GROGAN, DHI, DK, Catch crops from space: Insights for future monitoring.
10) Franziska DIESING, Marie-Christine DELUCQ, AIRBUS, FR, Success on marker development: automatic field delineation, crop type validation and harvest detection

Second session

11) Gerhard TRIEBNIG, EOX, AT, Euro Data Cube advanced access to satellite and LPIS data: Commodity products and market place for Area Monitoring
12) Rene GRIESBACH, Planet, DE, Combined usage of Sentinel-2 and Planet Data for Platform-based Monitoring of Agriculture Resources
13) Melanie RANKL, European Space Imaging, DE, EarthWatch - easy-to-access VHR imagery for advanced CAP-Monitoring
14) Roberto RODRÍGUEZ ÁLVAREZ, FEGA, ES, Mobile apps in area monitoring framework
15) Cristina MONTESERIN GONZÁLEZ, SERESCO, ES, Advanced intelligent inspections in Galicia
16) Nicolaos MALLIOS, Yorgos EFSTATHIOU, Neuropublic, GR, Deep Learning towards succeeding in the monitoring approach.
17) Henk JANSSEN, NEO, NL, CAPIGI - Network of geo-information experts in the agricultural community
18) João FALCÃO, IFAP, PT, IACS data sharing in Portugal
19) Dario PEREŠIN, APPRRR, HR, IACS data sharing in Croatia
20) Kornelis OOSTERHUIS, RVO, NL, Outcomes validation monitoring results

Posters

1) Cesar RODRIGUES, 2019 HHR MarsCAP Campaign / AirCAP platform
2) Cesar RODRIGUES, Advanced analytics for check by monitoring
3) Stefan BRAND, LPvis: FOSS Webapp for LPIS declaration conformity assessment and validation of ML classification results (Now on Github!)
4) Karel CHARVÁT, EUXDAT solution for monitoring of local climatic and environmental conditions
5) Jan MISUREC, [Retrieval of Biophysical and Productivity Properties of Agricultural Crops Using Radiative Transfer and Sentinel-2 Data]
6) Elias WANKO, Benchmarking Sentinel L2 vs. L3 (CARD) input in LPIS-based RF/SVM/LGB crop type classifications
7) Nikolaos MALLIOS, Towards monitoring: Nationwide crop classification in Greece using Deep Neural Networks
8) Miguel ESBRI, EO4AGRI project support in the implementation of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
9) Thanos STRANTZALIS, Historic analysis of parcels and scenarios identification for Denmark using Sentinels.
10) Thanos STRANTZALIS, SignalEyes and the JRC-monitoring framework
11) Jakub SUMA, DROMAS project in CZ - the use of Sentinels for target monitoring and improving the LPIS quality
12) Renata BODNAROVA, Sen4Cap project - the experience and benefits for the CZ
13) Katerina NOVOTNA, Pilot on IACS metadata value and harmonisation - the CZ example
14) David SIMONIK, Use of new technologies for the LPIS complex land consolidations
15) Jedrzej BOJANOWSKI, EOStat - Agriculture Poland: Services for EO based statistical information for agriculture and verification of farmers' obligations under CAP
16) Jan MUSIAL, Assessing potential of Sentinel-2 imagery for monitoring agricultural fields in Poland
17) Mercedes FORTALEZA DEL REY SAN FRANCISCO, Monitoring in seven Spanish regions. A Project implementad by FEGA and Tragsatec in 2019’.
18) Florentyna SMITH, EGNSS4CAP
19) Pavel TROJÁČEK, Transferring technical standards and best practice used for the management of the CAP to the countries outside the EU
20) Pavel MILENOV, Establishment of a Reference Data for Monitoring the Dynamics of Permanent Grassland with Scattered Woody Vegetation
21) Pavel MILENOV, Introducing the “marker” concept for near real-time monitoring of farm activities in the context of the European agricultural monitoring
22) Blanka VAJSOVÀ, Estimation of area ratios’ precision based on multi temporal S2 data for checks on crop diversification"
23) Štěpán VIZINA, New method for enhancement the CAP’s climate performance – drought risks assessment and its classification in LPIS
24) Simone PAPAKOSTANDINOU, Monitoring implementation in Cyprus
25) Bernadett CSONKA, "Theory for integrating remote sensing and GIS data to implement a new ’CAP delivery model’, while increasing synergies".
26) Kaupo VOORMANSIK, KAPPAZETa
27) Melanie RANKL, VHR Campaign 2019