Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - EARSeL SIG LULC - NASA LCLUC Workshop 2014


First joint Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Land Use & Land Cover and the NASA LCLUC Program on

"Frontiers in Earth Observation for
Land System Science"

offered a platform for extensive scientific exchange

156 researchers from 32 countries and all continents discussed upcoming opportunities and challenges at the beginning of this new remote sensing era during the 5th workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Land Use and Land Cover. The workshop was jointly organized between the EARSeL SIG  and NASA’s LCLUC Science Team  at the Department of Geography of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, on March 17-18, 2014.

Wordls of the EARSeL Workshop 2014

Keywords in the titles of 8 keynote speeches and 100 posters presented during the 5th workshop of the SIG Land Use and Land Cover

Land use and land cover monitoring is facing a new era with Landsat-8 and the upcoming Sentinels. At the same time, the recent opening of the Landsat archives marks a tide change in access to historic earth observation data. Thus, new opportunities for Earth Observation arise and the role of products from remote sensing data in the context of land system sciences becomes even greater.

Eight keynotes and 100 posters were presented within four sessions, which were organized along the following themes:

Plenary session 17 March EARSeL Workshop

Participants of the EARSeL-NASA workshop on land use and land cover in Berlin, March 2014. © HU Berlin

  • New sensors and emerging opportunities for land use and land cover monitoring,
  • Advances in Land-Cover and Land-Use Science using Earth Observations,
  • Mining the archives: better use of existing data for long-term LUCC studies,
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Use.

Final programme

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