EvoLand heads to ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2025

At this year’s symposium, EvoLand will be presenting a diverse line-up of sessions, posters, and live demonstrations—delivering insights into how our 11 prototypes are paving the way for the next generation of Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) products.

Here’s where and when you can catch EvoLand and our partners:

Cover Crop Type Mapping: A Candidate Prototype for the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
📍 Session: D.05.08 – DEMO: Cover Crop Type Mapping – A Candidate Prototype for the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
🕔 Time: Monday – 23.06.2025, 16:45 – 18:00
📍 Location: X5 Poster Area
🧑‍🔬 Presenter and authors: Mathilde De Vroey (VITO), with Kasper Bonte, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Dr. Tim Ng, Dr. Ruben Van De Kerchove
📌 Format: Poster

Explore how EvoLand is extending the capabilities of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) with a new prototype focused on cover crop type mapping—a crucial need for monitoring sustainable agriculture practices under the Common Agricultural Policy.

Interactively Visualise Your Project Results in Copernicus Browser in No Time
📍 Session: D.04.17 – Enabling Solutions through Cloud-based EO Ecosystems
🕔 Time: Tuesday – 24.06.2025, 13:52 – 14:12
📍 Location: EO Arena
🧑‍🔬 Presenter and authors: Daniel Thiex (Sinergise)
📌 Format: Demo

Want to showcase your project results in an accessible, user-friendly environment? Join this live demo to learn how to prepare, ingest, and visualise your data within the Copernicus Browser, part of the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. You’ll be guided through the entire process—from creating Evalscripts and legends to leveraging the “Bring Your Own COG” API—so you can publish and explore your EO results interactively in no time. The EvoLand results portal integration is used as an example.

Challenges in Sentinel-2 Single Image Super-Resolution for Quantitative Remote Sensing
📍 Session:  D.02.11 – Super-resolution in Earth Observation: The AI change of paradigm🕔 Time: Tuesday – 24.06.2025, 16:15 – 17:45
📍 Location: Hall G1
🧑‍🔬 Presenter and authors: Julien Michel (CESBIO), with Ekaterina Kalinicheva, Jordi Inglada
📌 Format: Oral

Learn how EvoLand is tackling domain gap challenges in Sentinel-2 super-resolution using deep learning. This presentation introduces a new evaluation framework, geometric distortion controls, and spatial frequency metrics to improve model fidelity, including a publicly available model that super-resolves 10 Sentinel-2 bands to 5m resolution with radiometric accuracy.

New Methods for the Next Generation of Copernicus Land Monitoring
📍 Session: D.05.08 – DEMO: EvoLand – New methods for the next generation of Copernicus Land Monitoring
🕔 Time: Wednesday – 25.06.2025, 16:07 – 16:27
📍 Location: EO Arena
🧑‍🔬 Presenter and authors: Phil Harwood, EvoLand Consortium led by VITO
📌 Format: Demo

Discover how EvoLand is shaping the future of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) with 11 innovative prototype services. These next-generation solutions span five key themes—agriculture, forest, water, urban, and general land cover—and are being designed to meet emerging policy and reporting needs. This demonstration will showcase all 11 prototypes via the EvoLand results portal, highlighting improvements over current CLMS services and encouraging feedback from the community.

Taking the Next Step in Vegetation Productivity Estimation: Towards 10m Vegetation Class-specific GPP Estimates
📍 Session: A.02.06 – Advances in Land Surface Phenology Monitoring and Applications
🕔 Time: Wednesday – 25.06.2025, 17:45 – 19:00
📍 Location: X5 Poster Area
🧑‍🔬 Presenter and authors: Astrid Vannoppen (VITO), with Kasper Bonte, Bert De Roo, Tim Ng, Else Swinnen, Laurent Tits, Roel Van Hoolst
📌 Format: Poster

Explore how the Copernicus GPP algorithm is being upgraded within EvoLand and HR-VPP2 to deliver vegetation-class-specific productivity estimates at 10m resolution—thanks to improved Sentinel-2 derived FAPAR, high-res land cover data, and C3/C4 crop distinctions.

EvoLand – Evolution of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service Portfolio
📍 Session: A.02.01 – The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS): Status and Future Perspectives
🕔 Time: Wednesday – 25.06.2025, 17:45 – 19:00
📍 Location: X5 Poster Area
🧑‍🔬 Presenter and authors: Wai-Tim Ng (VITO), with Dr. Ruben Van De Kerchove (VITO), Dr. Linda Moser, Dr. Fabian Berndt (GAF AG), Dr. Nicolas Granier (CLS), Philip Harwood, Konstantinos Kanellos (Evenflow)
📌 Format: Poster

Get an inside look at how EvoLand is shaping the future of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service by developing 11 innovative prototype services across forest, agriculture, water, urban, and general land cover domains—powered by novel EO data, machine learning, and continuous monitoring.

Towards an Annual Update of Urban Change Detection
📍 Session: A.02.05 – Urban Land Monitoring with EO
🕔 Time: Wednesday – 25.06.2025, 17:45 – 19:00
📍 Location: X5 Poster Area
🧑‍🔬 Presenter: Eve Poitevin (CLS), with Yoann Courmont, Nicolas Granier, Carlos Dewasseige
📌 Format: Poster

Discover how the EvoLand project is working toward an automated, annual update of urban land cover/use changes using Sentinel-2 Level 3A mosaics. This method combines PCA-based change mapping, Random Forest classification, and seasonal filtering to isolate urban dynamics with increasing precision.

Self-supervised Learning for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
📍 Session: A.02.02 – AI and Machine Learning for the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
🕔 Time: Thursday – 26.06.2025, 17:45 – 19:00
📍 Location: X5 Poster Area
🧑‍🔬 Presenter and authors: Nassim Ait Ali Braham (DLR), with Dr. Conrad Albrecht (DLR, TUM)
📌 Format: Poster

Explore how a self-supervised vision transformer trained on EnMAP, Sentinel-2, and Landsat-8 data is pushing the boundaries of foundation models in Earth Observation. By combining multispectral and hyperspectral inputs, this multi-sensor approach delivers powerful transfer learning for tasks like land cover and crop type classification.

Forest Disturbance Monitoring Prototypes for a Future CLMS
📍 Session: A.02.02 – Forest Monitoring with Earth Observation Data
🕔 Time: Friday – 27.06.2025, 08:30 – 10:00
📍 Location: Hall F2
🧑‍🔬 Presenter and authors: Linda Moser (GAF AG), with Anna Grabatin-Homolka, Andreas Langner, Fahad Jahangir, Fabian Berndt, Stephanie Wegscheider, Bruno Menini Matosak, Andre Stumpf, Inés Ruiz (GAF AG), and Martin Puhm, Deutscher Janik (Joanneum Research)
📌 Format: Oral

Discover how EvoLand is testing new prototypes for monthly to near-real-time forest disturbance detection across Europe—using Sentinel-2 time series, unsupervised algorithms like EWMA, and advanced disturbance classification to capture subtle and severe canopy changes with 10m pixel detail.

With interactive demos, oral presentations, and posters, EvoLand’s presence at LPS 2025 reflects the richness and depth of its contribution to Europe’s land monitoring future. Whether you’re interested in urban dynamics, agriculture, forests, or AI in EO, there’s something to discover in Vienna. Stay tuned for updates during the week of the symposium!