Jūrmala, Latvia, 11-12 September 2025
Location: Great hall at Bulduri Technical School, located at Viestura iela 6, Jurmala, Latvia.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming PANGEOS Cost Action Conference 2025, to be held 11-12 September 2025 at Jūrmala, Latvia, with the preliminary program below.
We will gather to share our latest research, innovations, and insights under the theme “Remote sensing applications towards European Green Deal strategic goals”. This event offers an excellent opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary discussions, expand your professional network, and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field. We welcome participants from:
- Researchers and academics
- Graduate and postgraduate students
- Industry professionals
- Policy-makers and stakeholders
- Any individual with a keen interest in Remote sensing for Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry
The application deadline ended on 20 June 2025 and the final selection has been made.
We look forward to receiving your application and hope to welcome you to Jūrmala, Latvia
The Preliminary Program is as follows:
Agenda
11 September 2025, Thursday
| 9h – 9h30 Participants’ registration in the Entrance hall | |
| 9h30 – 10h Welcome presentations, Grants & science communication presentations | |
| 10h – 11h General Session | Theo Zacharis Developing Remote Sensing-Based Indicators for Sustainable Land Management: A Roadmap Aligned with the European Green Deal Bojana Petrovic Potential of Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Characterizing Forest Regeneration: A Review and an Experimental Case Study Adnan Yousaf In Situ Assessment of View Angle and Solar Geometry Effects on SIF Measurements using the FLoX Sensor Thomas Hughes Interpretable and Accurate Deep Learning for Crop Productivity |
| 11h – 11h30 Coffee break, room 121 | |
| 11h30 – 12h30 General Session | Monica Herrero Huerta Opportunities for UAS-based Eco-DRR Turgay Dindaroglu Comparison of Topographic Factor (LS) Calculation in the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) Using UAV-Derived and ALOSPALSAR in the Micro Watershed Scale Steena Stephen Analysis and Estimation of Mango Orchard Phenology Stages with Satellite Remote Sensing Magdalena Majchrzak Integrating Multi‐Sensor Remote Sensing and Citizen Science to Monitor Flowering Phenology of Invasive Acacia dealbata for Sustainable Land Management |
| 12h30 – 13h30 WG1 | Application of High Throughput Phenotyping and Biochemical Tools to Identify Drought-Tolerant Barley Doubled Haploid Lines Ulkar Ibrahimova Phenotypic and Molecular Basis of Salt Tolerance in Wheat: Morphophysiological, Biochemical and Genetic Perspectives Helge Aasen Cover Crop Characterization with the Swiss Airborne Ecophysiological Research Infrastructure and Satellite Emulator Anshu Rastogi Advancing the European Green Deal with Remote Sensing: SCOPE Model Predictions of Buckwheat Yield Under Varied Water and Silicon Regimes |
| 13h30 – 14h Lunch, canteen | |
| 14h – 15h30 Visit University | |
| 15h30 – 16h Coffee break, room 121 | |
| 16h – 17h WG1 | Clara García Martínez Canopy imaging spectroscopy reveals a stepwise redshifted energy redistribution in the antenna under early drought stress Artūrs Katamadze Comparative performance of phenotyping sensors in predicting wheat yield and grain protein content under Mediterranean conditions Michal Antala PANGEOS field day Laura Mihai Norway Field day – Uncertainty propagation and cross calibration of multiple reflectance sensors – preliminary results |
19h Gala event dinner
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12 September 2025, Friday
| 9h30 – 11h WG2 | Emre Tunca Innovative Approach To Irrigation Scheduling By Using Un-Manned Aerial Vehicle Images George Papadavid Remote Sensing application for estimating climate change effects on irrigation management for supporting sustainable development in European Union territory Machwitz, Miriam Modelling crop growth of maize by assimilating active and passive remote sensing data Offer Rozenstein Uncertainty propagation analysis of remote sensing data in a coupled crop-radiative transfer model using particle filter and winding stairs Anirudh Belwalkar Field Validation of SIF from a UAV-Borne Narrow-Band Hyperspectral Imager: Laying the Groundwork for Seasonal Nitrogen Monitoring in Wheat Robert Caine Assessing plant-level variation in wheat physiology using drone-mounted optical and thermal sensors |
| 11h – 11h30 Coffee break, room 121 | |
| 11h30 – 12h45 WG3 | Gerbrand Koren Refining carbon flux estimates by integrating remote sensing data in the hybrid GAIAFLUX model Egor Prikaziuk Human-appropriated NPP: ESA LUISA project Fouad MOUNIR The Use of LiDAR Technology supported by drone imagery for Estimating Trees and Stands Dendrometric Attributes for Enhancing National Forest Inventory (NFI): A Case Study of Eucalyptus in Maamora. Songyan Zhu Monitoring Agricultural Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics Using Earth Observations and Process-Informed AI Gordana Kaplan SylvaSense – Detecting Fagus sylvatica in Turkey Using Satellite Remote Sensing |
| 12h45 – 14h15 Lunch, canteen | |
| 14h45 – 15h45 General Session | Andreas Hueni Impact of radiometric non-linearities on the example of AVIRIS-4 Mike Werfeli From CHIME measurements to Chlorophyll retrieval uncertainties |
| Dessislava Ganeva Uncertainty analysis and propagation for spectral leaf chlorophyll retrieval Islam Frahat Zaky Hassan Remote sensing for tracking compacting drought stress in Egypt Diogo Duarte MAP.INVADER project – Invasive alien plants mapping over national extents using an automated and multi-scale remote sensing framework Ilze Barga GeoHub.net: Enabling Green Deal Goals Through Scalable Earth Observation Applications | |
| 15h45 – 16h15 Coffee break, room 121 | |
| 16h15 – 18h Discussion and Closing Remarks | |
Publishing
You can publish your research presented during the conference into one of the two special issues that the PANGEOS team prepared.
| ORE | PRAG | |
| Journal’s name | Open Research Europe | Precision Agriculture. An International Journal on Advances in Precision Agriculture. |
| Quantil | Q2 (https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21101120611&tip=sid&clean=0) | Q1 (https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=86245&tip=sid&clean=0) |
| Indexed in | Scopus | Web of Science, Scopus |
| APC | Free open source | If open source: 3190 EUR. Free if not open source |
| Impact Factor (IF) | Open Research Europe does not have an Impact Factor (IF) and will not have one in the future. Read more here | 6.6 (2024) |
| Special issue | https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/collections/rssaf-pangeos/for-authors/publish-your-research | PANGEOS Special Issue in Precision Agriculture |
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Participation and Support:
Participation in the conference will follow the in-person model. There are only limited number people that can be supported for in-person attendance (https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2023/01/COST-Travel-Reimbursement-rules-November-2022.pdf).
Due to the enthusiasm for PANGEOS, in-person attendance and eligibility for full reimbursement is expected to be competitive. Participants will be elected based on the excellence criteria of the proposed scientific presentations and fit to the conference objective, while always paying attention to the geographic and gender inclusiveness criteria for the conference as a whole and in each working group session (https://www.cost.eu/about/strategy/excellence-and-inclusiveness/).
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