Wednesday afternoon
Afternoon session 14.00 - 15.30 hrs & 16.00 - 17.30 hrs
Format: short presentations.
Objective: open the discussion and show the achievements of the partnership
14.00 - 15.30 hrs: Welcome and openings
- Introduction by Dr Richard Sliuzas
- Opening and worlds of welcome by Prof. Thom Palstra, Rector of the University of Twente
- Opening and words of welcome by Prof. Freek van der Meer, on behalf of the Faculty Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC, University of Twente
- Robert Chen, on behalf of William Sonntag, on behalf of Group on Earth Observation
- Charlina Vitcheva, Deputy Director General of the European Commission, Joint Research Centre and
- Joan Clos, Executive Director UN-HABITAT
- Robert Ndugwa, Head Global Urban Observatory Unit | Research and Capacity Development Branch, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (presentation)
15.30 - 16.30 hrs: Introduction and status
- Principles of the partnership, main achievements, and objectives of the meeting (Martino Pesaresi, EC JRC) (presentation)
- Global updated and historical baseline data on population and built-up areas (Sergio Freire, JRC Global Human Settlement Layer) (presentation)
- Global high resolution age-structured population maps 2000-2020 (Alessandro Sorichetta, University of Southampton, WorldPop) (presentation)
- Global Settlements, Infrastructure, and Population Data Intercomparison (Bob Chen, Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network) (presentation)
16.45 - 17.30 hrs: Sketching activities
- Atlas of the Human Planet releases 2016, 2017, plans for 2018, 2019. (Aneta Florczyk, EC JRC GHSL) (presentation)
- Proposed new expert groups list and contact name/face (Martino Pesaresi, EC JRC)
- Introduction to the "world café'" session of the day after (Martino Pesaresi, EC JRC)
Dinner in Bistro Het Koetshuis