The 13th Thematic Day of the French National Remote Sensing Programme (PNTS)

The 13th Thematic Day of the French National Remote Sensing Programme (PNTS) will be held on 20 May 2025 at ISPA/INRAE, near Bordeaux, in hybrid mode, on the theme: ‘Ten years of observations by the Sentinel-2 mission – Contributions and prospects for high spatial resolution and temporal revisit’. Registration is now open on the conference website:  https://jtpnts2025.sciencesconf.org/ Registration is free but compulsory in order to facilitate the practical aspects of the organisation (lunch breaks, coffee, etc.). Registration also allows you to contribute to sessions 2 ‘I share my problem’ and 3 ‘My thesis from space’ of the theme day. The theme day will be held as a hybrid session, with face-to-face and videoconference contributions possible. The deadline for registration is 20 April 2025. The day’s programme will consist of 3 sessions: (1) A session of 6 invited presentations: Ferran Gascon, ESA-ESTEC, Status and Perspectives of the Sentinel-2 Mission. Olivier Hagolle, CESBIO/CNES, THEIA’s current and future products for monitoring continental surfaces (SIC-A). Barillé Laurent, Nantes-Université, Remote sensing of marine biodiversity along European coasts: contributions and prospects of the Sentinel-2 mission for taxonomic classification and the study of the phenology of intertidal vegetation (O) Lauranne Charrier, IGE & CEN/CNRM, Contribution of the Sentinel-2 mission to glacier monitoring (SIC) Floriane Provost, ITES/Univ. Strasbourg, on the theme of landslides, exact title to come (TS) Pierre Defourny or Sophie Bontemps, Université Catholique de Louvain, Using the Sentinel mission to monitor agriculture in Europe, Exact title to come (SIC) (2) A session entitled ‘I want to share my experience or my problem: The contributions of Sentinel-2 or similar space missions through high spatial resolution or frequent temporal revisit’: including summary presentations of no more than 5 minutes to publicise different community experiences and individual or collective solutions. This session of the programme will be based on feedback from the scientific community. (3) A session entitled ‘My thesis from space’: dedicated to PhD students working in the field of space observation of the Earth. Doctoral students are invited to present their thesis in a maximum of 3 minutes in pre-recorded video (this concerns any thesis related to the observation of the Earth from space in themes as varied as the study of continental surfaces, ocean physics and biogeochemistry, the atmosphere, the solid Earth, the cryosphere and the human sciences). The best presentation will be elected by the Theme Day participants and rewarded with the funding of an A-rank publication (€2k). Doctoral students are invited to declare their candidacy when registering. The organising committee will then contact the participating doctoral students directly.