Thursday, 29 May 2008

GMES Land User Workshop (Stockholm): presentations and main results

The last GMES Land User Workshop took place in Stockholm, 26th and 27th of May, 2008.

Participants from the Scandinavian and Baltic countries and from the GMES community took part to the 2 days meeting, enriching the discussions regarding mapping activities and harmonisation across the different countries and up to the European level.

The final list of participants is available by clicking here; and you can download the different presentations from the agenda below.

First Announcement

May 26
10.00 – 12.30	Welcome and introduction
	National and European Land cover Programmes
	15’	The status of GMES implementation and LMCS Architecture and Governance Mr. W. Steinborn and Mrs. J. Masson, GMES Bureau
	15’	The current set up of the Land Monitoring Core Service Mr. D. Gruenreich, LMCS Implementation group
	15’	The LMCS as important part of the EEA strategy plan: Expectations for the next 5 years Mr. C. Steenmans, EEA
	15’	Swedish national land cover programs Mr. M. Halling, Lantmäteriet
	15’	LC mapping in Finland - national cooperation Mr. Y. Sucksdorff, FEI
	15’	LC mapping in Norway Mr. Ø. Nesje, Ministry of Environment
	15’	Land cover mapping in Lithuania Mr. G. Vaitkus, Institute of Aerial Geodesy
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 16.30	Available national datasets and products and User experiences
	15’	Production, delivery and usage of Finnish national CLC data sets P. Härmä, M. Kallio and M. Törmä; SYKE
	15’	Swedish Land Cover map Mrs M. Karlström; Lantmäteriet
	15’	Vegetation mapping of Norway, using Landsat TM/ETM+ data Mr. B. Johansen Northern Research Institute
	15’	User experiences in Norway Mrs. E. Arneberg, Directorate for Nature Management, and Mrs. H. Gro Wallin, Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
	15’	Improvement of Lithuania‘s land fund inventory – expectations from GMES Mr. S. Urbanas, National Land Service
	15’	The Status of CLC 2006 Mr. G. Buttner, FÖMI, ETC LUSI
	15’	The current use of LC data and harmonization needs Mr. J. Fons, UAB, ETC LUSI
	15’	GNU-GMES network for users: experiences of national and regional users Mr. H. Haubold, UBA-A
	15’	DISCUSSION
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
17.00 – 19.00	Splinter sessions
	User feedback: Opinions & suggestions		Programmatic: Top-down vs. bottom-up perspective	Technical: Harmonisation / INSPIRE. Look & feel across borders. Production aspects
	Chair: Herbert		Chair: Chris and Andreas	Chair: Eric and Pekka
20.30	Workshop Dinner

May 27
9.00 – 9.30	Quality assurance of LMCS
	15’	Land Monitoring Core Service and quality assurance Mr. S. Kuntz, Infoterra
	15’	DISCUSSION
9.30 – 10.30	Results of Splinter sessions
	10’	Report from splinter session 1
	10’	DISCUSSION
	10’	Report from splinter session 2
	10’	DISCUSSION
	10’	Report from splinter session 3
	10’	DISCUSSION
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00	Panel discussion Participants: Mr. Yrjö Sucksdorff, Mr. Chris Steenmans, Mr. Erik Willén, Mr. Dietmar Grünreich, Mrs. Josiane Masson, Mr. Per Erik Skrovseth and Mr. Andreas Littkopf and national representatives Minutes
12.00 – 12.30	Conclusions
12.30	End of general workshop
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch

Technical sessions

1. Training on the job offered by service providers:

· LMCS

· National data sets

· Downstream services on:

o water quality

o spatial planning,

o forest monitoring / Kyoto

o urban monitoring

2. Exchange on technical issues for production (e.g. ways towards better harmonisation, aggregation approaches and tools, etc.)

Picture gallery