NCEO/CEOI-ST Joint Science Conference

The 2014 EO Science Conference took place on 24th to 27th June 2014, run jointly by the National Centre for EO (NCEO) and the Centre for EO Instruments and Space Technology (CEOI-ST) at the University of Sheffield, Students Union.   

The conference had inter-disciplinary NCEO/CEOI-ST plenary sessions, which included talks from science, technology and applications perspectives.  There was a strongly themed programme with sessions on:

  • Plants from space (Both ocean and terrestrial systems)
  • Current Missions and Data
  • Future Missions, including ESA Earth Explorer
  • Climate and other Datasets from Space
  • Science from the ESA Data Assimilation Projects
  • Missions and Technologies for future Earth Explorer missions
  • Ground based and airborne remote sensing
  • Atmospheric Composition and its Influences

On Friday, the final 2 plenary sessions were devoted to “Future Opportunities” and included a talk by John Remedios – Incoming Director of NCEO.

The plenary sessions of the conference finished at lunchtime on Friday, when the NCEO held a “Café Scientifique”: an opportunity for NCEO’s early career scientists to brainstorm with colleagues. 

Poster presentations were invited and were displayed for the duration of the conference. Dedicated poster sessions were held on both Wednesday and Thursday evenings. In addition, those submitting posters were invited to give a one-minute poster talk during a plenary session (to introduce posters relevant to that session). 

Presentations from the conference are available below:

Plenary 1, Lecture Theatre Level 2: Plants from Space (Both ocean and terrestrial systems)
Deriving process information on the terrestrial carbon cycle from earth observationsMat WilliamsUniversity of Edinburgh
Influence of phytoplankton size structure in ocean carbon cycling and on ocean colourRobert
Brewin
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Infra-red Remote Sensing for Global Biomass BurningMartin WoosterKing’s College London
Measuring fluorescence from space - the FLEX mission and instrument conceptsLuis AlonsoUniversity of Valencia
Our Ecosystem - a collaborative web mapping platform for publishing and sharing value-added data
products
Karin VeirgeverEcometrica
One-minute poster talks
Plenary 2, Lecture Theatre Level 2: Current Missions and Data
Regional Flux Estimates of CO2 and CH4 using GOSAT DataLiang FengUniversity of Edinburgh
Spectral variability in the Earth’s Outgoing Longwave RadiationRichard BantgesImperial College
Salinity from space: Spatial-temporal variabilityChris BanksNational Oceanographic Centre
Cryosat-2: Scientific AchievementsAndrew ShepherdUniversity of Leeds
Providing operational services in Polar RegionsAndrew FlemingBritish Antarctic Survey
One-minute poster talks
Plenary 3, Lecture Theatre Level 2: Future Missions
BIOMASS: first steps from selection to realityShaun QueganUniversity of Sheffield
EarthCARE: The next step forward in global measurements of clouds, aerosol, precipitation and
radiation
Robin HoganUniversity of Reading & ECMWF
Instrumentation planned for MetOp-SGBill BellThe Met Office
Measuring greenhouse gases from spaceHartmut BoeschUniversity of Leicester
NovaSAR Mission and ApplicationsRachel BirdSSTL
One-minute poster talks
Plenary 4, Lecture Theatre Level 2: Climate and other Datasets from Space
Lessons learnt and challenges from processing long time series within ESA-GlobAlbedo, ADAM and
WACMOS-ET for the 35 years of ECVs (BRDF/albedo, fapar & LAI) on CEMS within the EU-FP7-
QA4ECV project
Jan-Peter MullerUCL
Predicting the Arctic summer sea ice extent: the role of melt pondsDanny FelthamUniversity of
Reading
Climate Change Initiative Cloud and AerosolCaroline PoulsonRutherford Appleton Laboratory
The TRUTHs mission - establishing an observational climate benchmark data setPaul GreenNational Physical Laboratory
A seamless supply chain for climate data from space in the UKDebbie CliffordUniversity of Reading
One-minute poster talks
Plenary 5, Lecture Theatre Level 2: Science from the ESA Data Assimilation Projects
Using correlations between atmospheric CO2 and CO to improve inverse analyses of carbon fluxesChris WilsonUniversity of Leeds
Data Assimilation for land surface studies in the Sentinel era: how can we deliverJose Gomez-
Dans
UCL
Observation impact in non-linear data assimilationPeter Jan van LeeuwenUniversity of Reading
Exploring coupled data assimilation using an idealised atmosphere-ocean modelPolly SmithUniversity of Reading
CERA: The Coupled ECMWF Reanalysis SystemEric de BoissesonECMWF
One-minute poster talks
CERA: The Coupled ECMWF Reanalysis SystemDavid ParkerUK Space Agency
Plenary 6, Lecture Theatre Level 2: Development of Missions, Instruments and Technologies
for Europe
Providing global measurements of winds, rainfall and cloud ice waterAnthony IllingworthUniversity
of Reading
The Wavemill concept for measuring global ocean surface currentsChristine GommengingerNational Oceanographic Centre
A Low Cost Upper atmosphere Sounder (LOCUS) missionEdmund LinfieldUniversity of Leeds
Developing EO concepts for convoys with the Sentinel seriesNeil HumpageUniversity of Leicester
Copernicus: The European Earth Observation Programme, The Sentinels; Access to data and “Big Data” processingThomas LankesterAirbus Defence and Space
One-minute poster talks
Plenary 7, Lecture Theatre Level 2: Ground based and airborne remote sensing
Ground-based remote sensing of nitrogen dioxide in urban environmentsRosemarie GravesUniversity of Leicester
New 3D measurements of forest biomass and structureMat DisneyUCL
Bio-Argo: a new frontier for understanding ocean biology and biogeochemistryGiorgio Dall’OlmoPlymouth Marine Laboratory
MISRlite - Multi-angle IR Stereo radiometer using uncooled microbolometer arrays for global windsJan-Peter MullerUCL
AirSAR: Multi-frequency SAR data gathering from a NERC airborne survey platformDavid HallAirbus Defence and Space
One-minute poster talks
Plenary 8, Lecture Theatre Level 2: Atmospheric Composition and its Influences
Interpreting multi-year datasets of volatile organic compounds derived from MIPASDavid MooreUniversity of Leicester
Observed and modelled influences of synoptic meteorology on UK air qualityRichard PopeUniversity of Leeds
Aerosol radiative effects from satellitesGareth ThomasRutherford Appleton Laboratory
ALiSS - Atmospheric Limb-Sounding Satellite for the UTLS RegionDaniel GerberRutherford
Appleton Laboratory
Using MACC-II products as boundary conditions for street-scale air quality forecasting servicesAmy
Stidworthy
Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC)
One-minute poster talks
Plenary 9, Lecture Theatre Level 2: Future Opportunities
Future EO MissionsAmanda ReganESA
Potential Bilateral Missions in EOMick JohnsonCEOI-ST
NERC Big Data and NCEOVictoria BennettSTFC
The Satellite Applications Catapult and EO ApplicationsTerri FreemantleSatellite Applications
Catapult
How an Integrated Applications Programme can be used to Develop Solutions with EO ComponentsBrian Tittley/Ian DowneyESA
Future NCEOJohn Remedios