The CEOI and NCEO held a joint Earth Observation Conference – EO Science and Technologies on 27th to 30th June 2017, Bath University.
The conference took place at the University of Bath and showcased the latest science results and technological innovations in Earth Observation. A full programme of networking opportunities was planned.
There was a full agenda with many talks covering the science and technologies of current and future EO missions, with guest speakers from NASA JPL, ESA and UKSA.
We invited abstract submissions – on science and/or technology – for talks, posters, demonstrations and exhibitions, in the following categories:
- The Energy and Water Cycle
- Environmental Hazards
- Data Assimilation and Models
- Climate and Long-term Datasets
- Land-Atmosphere Interactions
- Ocean and Ice
- The Carbon Cycle
- Working with Industry and Governments
- Facilities, Technologies and Tools
- Other related topics not listed above
| Title | Speaker | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome | Mick Johnson and John Remedios | CEOI and NCEO |
| Keynote: Connections between Water, Energy, Carbon and the Earth's Climate | Graeme Stephens | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of Reading |
| Keynote: EO Technology Needs at ESA | Massimiliano Pastena Future Studies Technology Development and Frequency Management Engineer | European Space Agency |
| Keynote: Maximizing the potential of Satellite Earth Observation for the economy, science and society A new era: 2017 – 2040 | Beth Greenaway Head of Earth Observation | UK Space Agency |
| Proposed Satellite to provide global winds, ice water content and rainfall | Anthony Illingworth | University of Reading |
| Update on the LOCUS Breadboard 8th call activity | Giorgio Savini | University College London |
| SEASTAR: a new satellite mission to observe sub-mesoscale ocean dynamics and air/sea coupling | Adrien Martin | National Oceanography Centre |
| Demonstration of a thermal IR Laser Heterodyne Radiometer (LHR) in emission sounding mode | Marko Huebner | STFC RAL Space |
| Post-launch calibration approaches | Emma Woolliams | National Physical Laboratory |
| Miniaturisation of instruments | Andy Vick | STFC RAL Space |
| The Tropical Carbon Mission: Quantifying Tropical Carbon Fluxes from Space | Hartmut Boesch | NCEO Leicester |
| UK Joint GEO/CEOS Office | Sophie Hebden | NCEO Leicester |
| Turning environmental data into competitive advantage | Debbie Clifford | Institute for Environmental Analytics |
| Ecometrica's Earth Observation Labs | Mark Cleverley and Heiko Balzter | Ecometrica and NCEO Leicester |
| NCEO's Frequency Spectrum Activities | Richard Bantges | NCEO Imperial College London |
| Industry-academia links in the BIOMASS mission | Shaun Quegan | NCEO Sheffield |
| RF Sensing from UASs | Yvonne Munro | Airbus UK |
| Spaceborne GNSS-R: results from the UK TechDemoSat-1 mission | Guiseppe Foti and Christine Gommenginger | National Oceanography Centre |
| COnformal Retro Reflectors for Earth Observation (CORREO) | Keith Morrison | Cranfield University |
| Laboratory Characterisation of the Radar Signature of Methane Bubbles in Lake Ice | Keith Morrison | Cranfield University |
| Advances in Frequency Selective Surface technology for Remote Sensing Radiometers | Dr Raymond Dickie | Queen’s University Belfast |
| HYMAS – Filterbank spectrometers for HYperspectral Microwave Atmospheric Sounding | Ben Flatman | University of Cardiff |
| Stabilisation of 3.5 THz quantum-cascade laser local oscillators using Schottky diode technology | Giorgio Savini (Presenting on behalf of Dr Alexander Valavanis) | MSSL-UCL |
| Critical Technology Advancement of the LOCUS Mission: Towards Future Space Flight | Giorgio Savini | MSSL-UCL |
| Low Cost EO Imaging | Charles Cranstoun | SSTL |
| Freeform Gratings for Ultracompact Spectrograph Designs | Dr. Cyril Bourgenot | Durham University |
| SuperRes-EO: Super-resolution for high resolution EO imaging for targeted and global applications | Yu Tao | MSSL-UCL |
| A New Generation of Deployable Optical Systems to Increase Small Satellite Capability | Prof Guglielmo Aglietti | Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey |
| Embedded electronics for a flight black body | Tim Nightingale/Tom Morse | STFC RAL Space |
| Application of Vantablack® to a large-aperture flight black body | Daniel Peters | STFC RAL Space |
| The Compact Infrared Imager and Radiometer in a CubeSat | Neil Bowles | University of Oxford |