Topic 2
Climate change: Can space contribute to a sustainable
solution?
2 October, 2024 at 15:00 - 17:00
Egmont Palace, Brussels
A majority of climate variables (more than 50%) can only be measured from Space. As an example, methane emissions were not precisely mapped, measured and tracked before the launch of MethaneSAT in March 24 with a Falcon 9. Therefore, Earth observation satellites are a vital tool to predict the effects of climate change on our ecosystems.
Speakers & Presentations
Matteo Manieri
Open Innovation Manager - Telespazio
Frank Pattyn
Full Professor - ULB
Bastien Ricour
AIV Team Leader - OIP
Marie Doutriaux-Boucher
Climate Product Expert - EUMETSAT
Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist Physics Engineer - Spacebel
Jean-Emmanuel Roty
Project Manager - Aerospacelab
Exploring the impact of earth observation technologies on driving decarbonization initiatives
Improving sea level projections with satellite remote sensing observations
Climate from space at EUMETSAT – understand its evolution and support applications
ALTIUS Atmospheric Characterization Mission: from Bits to Science
Copernicus – Europe's key programme to monitor our planet
Speakers
Exploring the impact of earth observation technologies on driving decarbonization initiatives
Matteo Manieri
Open Innovation Manager - Telespazio
With a background in space systems engineering from TU Delft, Matteo Manieri has been with Telespazio Belgium for 3 years. Initially involved in the optimization of ground station operations and the assessment of environmental impacts of ground operations, he later shifted his focus to utilizing Earth Observation for climate action. He currently leads Open Innovation at Telespazio Belgium, where he facilitates collaboration between Telespazio, universities, and start-ups to invest in and develop new and innovative technologies and ideas.
Improving sea level projections with satellite remote sensing observations
Frank Pattyn
Full Professor - ULB
Frank Pattyn is a glaciologist/ice-sheet modeller at the Laboratoire de Glaciologie of the ULB. His research focuses on improving projections of the contribution of large ice sheets (especially Antarctica) to future sea-level rise. He developed a number of ice-sheet models, such as the Blatter-Pattyn model, capable of simulating the behaviour of ice sheets, ice streams and ice shelves. He is the Chair of the Belgian National Committee on Antarctic Research and recipient of the Agassiz medal of the European Geosciences Union.
Monitoring earth: Space instruments development for climate change
Bastien Ricour
AIV Team Leader - OIP
Bastien Ricour started his career at ALSTOM, as a system engineer on autonomous trains development (ERTMS) for the railway industry. In In 2022, he joined OIP sensor systems as an AIV engineer on the ALTIUS project and then became AIV manager for this project. Currently, Bastien is head of the AIV engineering team and therefore responsible for OIP space projects AIV activities, focusing mainly on ALTIUS and CLIM instruments.
Climate from space at EUMETSAT – understand its evolution and support applications
Marie Doutriaux-Boucher
Climate Product Expert - EUMETSAT
Marie Doutriaux-Boucher is a Climate Product Expert at EUMETSAT where she leads the implementation of specific activities for the generation and validation of EUMETSAT Climate Data Records in support to the development of climate information services by meteorological and hydrological agencies of EUMETSAT Member States and the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Marie has a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University) in Paris (France, 1997). Marie’s research interests initially lied with cloud remote sensing and the use of satellite data for model evaluation and parameterisation. She started her career in academia and was appointed as an assistant professor in physics at the Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique of the University of Lille. She then worked at the UK Met Office in the satellite application and climate divisions before joining EUMETSAT in 2011. Marie is an author or co-author of many peer-reviewed publications in the field of remote sensing, as well as several technical and scientific reports. In the past few years, Marie has been involved in several European research projects and the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Her experience covers several thematic products, such as atmospheric motion vectors, temperature and humidity profiles, aerosols, surface albedo, and cloud analysis.
ALTIUS Atmospheric Characterization Mission: from Bits to Science
Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist
Physics Engineer - Spacebel
Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist holds a Master's degree in Business Engineering from the Université Catholique de Louvain (LSM). After having worked 2 years for SWIFT as a financial analyst, he decided to go back to university to pursue a PhD in Finance in co-supervision between the Université catholique de Louvain (LSM) and the Université de Namur, where he was also a teaching assistant in Finance. He decided, a few years later, to transform his passion for Astronomy and space into a possible career. In 2014, he started, on top of his Ph.D. in Econophysics, a 2 years preparatory program for the M.Sc. in Particle Physics and Cosmology. After having completed this MSc in Particle Physics and Cosmology and received his PhD in Economics, he started in October 2018, a second PhD fellowship in exoplanet imaging at the STAR Institute in the Department of Astrophysics and Geophysics in collaboration with the Montefiore Institute of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Université de Liège. Following his second PhD in Space Sciences, he joined Spacebel in September 2022 as a Space Physics Engineer to contribute to developing the Belgian space sector. He is currently involved in the development of the ground segments of ALTIUS and MetOP-SG missions.
Copernicus – Europe's key programme to monitor our planet
Jean-Emmanuel Roty
Project Manager - Aerospacelab
Jean-Emmanuel Roty is Project Manager at Aerospacelab, involved in the Copernicus Contributing Mission programme and in other institutional projects with a focus on multispectral earth observation. Prior to joining Aerospacelab, Jean-Emmanuel interned at the European Space Agency, working as part of the Mission & Payload Team for the Solar Orbiter mission. Jean-Emmanuel graduated from ESTACA (Paris, France) with a degree in Space Systems Engineering.
Chair & Co-chair
Chair: Patrick Hendrick
Patrick Hendrick is Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) as well as at VUB, KULeuven and Royal Military Academy of Belgium, with also strong collaboration with the VKI. He has been involved in diffferent space technology research projects funded by ESA in programmes as GSTP, FLPP or Prodex but also in European Commission space projects as LAPCAT, ASCENSION, CHAT or FAST20XX. He is specifically active in the field of reusable launchers technology studies and experiments, together with academic partners and industry as Safran, SABCA, SONACA or Aerospacelab. Dual technologies, low cost access to space and reusable systems are a common concern in his space vision.
Co-Chair: Aurélie Bellemans
Aurélie received her degree in Electromechanical Engineering from the joint BRUFACE programme at the VUB and ULB in 2013. Afterwards, she joined the von Kaman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in a collaborative PhD with ULB. She worked as a BAEF postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the FLOW research group at VUB as an assistant professor in October 2020. The overarching topic of her research is to develop data-driven feature-extraction methods and build advanced surrogates using machine-learning algorithms. Her main applications of interest are the development of digital twins for reacting flows with applications to plasma-assisted combustion and atmospheric re-entry plasmas.