Held in Prague, Czech Republic from 9-13 May 2016, the 2016 edition of Living Planet Symposium is organized by the European Space Agency.

The objectives of the ESA Living Planet Symposium are to:

• Present  the  progress  and  plans for the implementation of ESA Earth Observation strategy and the relevance of ESA's EO Programme to societal challenges, science and economy.
• Provide an international forum to scientists, researchers and users to present and share state of the art results based on ESA's Earth Observation and third-party mission data.
• Review the development of Earth Observation applications.
• Present the Copernicus space component and operational services.
• Report on ESA’s Exploitation Programmes (i.e. Climate Change Initiative, SEOM, DUE, VAE, STSE).
• Introduce the current and future planned Earth Observation missions.
• Outline ESA’s international cooperation in the field of Earth Observation.
• Provide dedicated thematic tutorials and demonstrations.

The LPS16 Symposium includes oral or poster presentations covering the following themes: Atmosphere, oceanography, cryosphere, land, hazards, climate and meteorology, geodesy, near-earth environment, methodologies and products, open science 2.0.

Planetek Italia participates the event with presentations of its latest developments and solution. Following the two papers submitted, which will be showcased:

• Sentinel-2 for coastal waters monitoring: test case for the ICWM for MED project (download PDF)
• Grassland mapping using SPOT5 Take5 and Sentinel-1 data in Southern Italy (download PDF)
• Swarm satellite data analysis for some earthquake case studies (Read more about the project)

To read more about the event http://lps16.esa.int