PV 2026 Conference Programme

 

Please note that all times are in CEST Madrid (UTC+2).

 

 

 

Tuesday               Wednesday                Thursday                Posters

 

Tuesday, 23rd June

Time Duration Talk ID Author Affiliation Title
Topic 1 - Ensuring long-term preservation of data, metadata, software, workflows, models and knowledge (the 'P' in PV)
Session S01 ‐ Chairperson: Nancy Ritchey / Co-chair: Mirko Albani
14:00 00:30   Christophe Arviset ESA

Welcome Remarks

14:30 00:30 S1-01 Ines Sanz Morere (Invited speaker) ESA

Building Europe’s Digital Twin of the Planet: DestinE and ESA’s Digital Twin Earth

15:00 00:20 S1-02 Caroline Bot CDS

Long term preservation and added value at CDS

15:20 00:20 S1-03 Johannes Roeder German Aerospace Center (DLR)

A quarter century of German Satellite Data Archive (D-SDA) operations: Key experiences, milestones and challenges from a multimisson archive environment 

15:40 00:20 S1-04 Sabrina Pinori SERCO Italia

Beyond the Archive: Making Decades of European Earth Observation Data Consistent, Usable and Sustainable

16:00 00:30 Coffee break
Topic 1 - Ensuring long-term preservation of data, metadata, software, workflows, models and knowledge (the 'P' in PV).
Session S02 ‐ Chairperson: Christophe Arviset / Co-chair: Cedric Bergeron
16:30 00:20 S2-01 Uve Voges con terra GmbH Germany

Evolving the EUMETSAT Long-Term Archive for future Multi-Region Data Services

16:50 00:20 S2-02 Sergio Folco Starion Italia S.p.A.

EO Space Associated Information Preservation System

17:10 00:20 S2-03 Olivia Lesne ACRi-ST

DAMPS: A Comprehensive Service for Earth Observation Data Archival, Management, and (Re)Processing

17:30 00:20 S2-04 Ajay Prashar SAC ISRO

Chandrayaan-3 Mission PDS4 Long Term Data Archive for Lander and Rover Instruments

17:50 00:20   Short Break  

 

Posters Session ‐ Chairperson: Christophe Arviset / Co-chair: Cedric Bergeron
18:10 00:30      

Posters brief presentation (1 slide, 1 minute each)

18:40         Welcome Reception and Posters viewing session
20:30 Adjourn  

 

Wednesday, 24th June

Time Duration Talk ID Author Affiliation Title
Topic 2 - Technology for preservation - cost effective, environmental-friendly, cloud, security and digital protection
Session S03 ‐ Chairperson: Dirk Duellmann / Co-chair: Tom Stein
09:30 00:30 S3-01

Rach Bhatawdekar (Invited speaker)

ESA

ESA strategy towards multi mission archives to facilitate long term data storage and data access fonctionalities 

10:00 00:20 S3-02 Ken Ebisawa ISAS/JAXA

Modernizing DARTS for FAIR and Sustainable Long-Term Preservation

10:20 00:20 S3-03 Nancy Ritchey NOAA NCEI

Transformation of NCEI’s Environmental Data Stewardship

10:40 00:20 S3-04 Richard Hofmeister Werum Software & Systems AG

Create a high-performance Archive Dataspace based on a Copernicus Long-Term Archive concept

11:00 00:30 Coffee break
Topic 5 - Impact of AI and ML on data preservation and adding value to data.
Session S04 ‐ Chairperson: Christian Neissner / Co-chair: Laurence Chaoul
11:30 00:30 S4-01 Adam Farquhar (Invited speaker) Digital Lifecycle Management Ltd

Are we there yet? Thoughts on digital preservation as we approach the singularity

12:00 00:20 S4-02 Rafael de la Hoz EUMETSAT

From Data Deluge to Data Value: Evolving EUMETSAT Big Data Services for the AI Era

12:20 00:20 S4-03 Tommaso Martire Starion Group Italia S.p.A.

Bridging MERIS and Sentinel-3 OLCI: deep learning Super-Resolution of legacy MERIS imagery

12:40 00:20 S4-04 Massimiliano  Ferrante ESA

Data fusion with heritage satellite, IoT and Copernicus satellite data for estimating health of trees

13:00 00:20 S4-05 Dimitrios Pervolarakis IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens

A RAG-Based Conversational Interface for Human and Robotic Exploration Data

13:30   Lunch      
Topic 7 - Scientific productivity and other metrics to measure data archives usage and usefulness.
Session S05 ‐ Chairperson: Hendrik Zwenzner / Co-chair: Esther Conway
15:00 00:30 S5-01 Guido de Marchi (Invited speaker) ESA

The impact of archival research with ESA Space Science missions

15:30 00:20 S5-02 Omiros Giannakis IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens

TACTICIAN - AI‑Driven Knowledge Extraction for ESA Space Science Missions

15:50 00:20 S5-03 Johanna Senft Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, German Aerospace Center, Earth Observation Center

Towards Robust Monitoring in Earth Observation

16:10 00:20 S5-04 Lu Wang National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Measuring Dataset Curatability for Scalable Machine-Assisted Repository Stewardship

16:30 00:30 Coffee break
17:00 00:10      

Group picture

17:50 00:10       Tour of ESAC
18:00 Adjourn        

 

Thursday, 25th June

Time Duration Talk ID Author Affiliation Title
Topic 3 - Adding value to data and facilitation of data use and re-use (the 'V' in PV).
Session S06 ‐ Chairperson: Laurence Chaoul / Co-chair: Bruno Merin
09:30 00:30 S6-01 Deborah Baines (Invited speaker)  ESA

ESASky - user friendly portal to access astronomical data from many data sources worldwide

10:00 00:20 S6-02 Mirko Albani ESA

Building a 40+ Year Global Dataset Through CEOS Agency Collaboration

10:20 00:20 S6-03 Mario  Winkler German Aerospace Center DLR

Leveraging BPMN for EO Data Archival Workflows

10:40 00:20 S6-04

Andrew Jackson

Digital Preservation Coalition

How Many Formats Are There? Understanding The Scale Of The Digital Preservation Challenge

11:00 00:30 Coffee break
Topic 4 - Increasing data usage through community standards and formats, data interoperability, multi-mission tools and science platforms.
Session S07 ‐ Chairperson: Madison Hughes / Co-chair: Jenny Mitcham
11:30 00:30 S7-01 Jordan  Padams (Invited speaker) NASA PDS

Evolving the Planetary Data System into a Global Science Platform

12:00 00:20 S7-02 Stéphane  Erard LIRA / Observatoire de Paris

VESPA in 2026: an interoperable infrastructure for planetary science data discovery and publication

12:20 00:20 S7-03 Madison  Hughes NASA PDS Geoscience Node

A Scalable Framework for Fair Archive Development: Lessons From NASA's Commercial Lunar Missions

12:40 00:20 S7-04 Julian Meyer-Arnek DLR - German Aerospace Center

STAC and FAIRness: EO data version and eviction management for discovery and access

13:00 00:20 S7-05 Martine  Paepen VITO

Enabling next generation EO Services through Terrascope STAC

13:30   Lunch
Topic 6 - Governance, funding and policy for long term preservation.
Session S08 ‐ Chairperson: Tom Stein / Co-chair: Francesco Tataranni
14:45 00:30 S8-01 Kati  Lassila-Perini (Invited speaker) ICFA/DPHEP/CERN

Advancing Open and Sustainable Data Stewardship in High Energy Physics: From Preservation to Community-Driven Recommendations

15:15 00:20 S8-02 David  Giaretta PTAB Ltd

OAIS based Maturity Model for Digital Preservation and Information Use

15:35 00:20 S8-03 Roberta  Svanetti Deda Tech Srl for ESA

Facilitating Space Data Archives interoperability through standardization in OAIS and related framework

15:55 00:15   Christophe Arviset ESA

Concluding remarks

16:10 End of Conference

 

Posters

Poster ID Author Affiliation Title
P01 Ajay Prashar SAC ISRO Design and Development of Space and Planetary Science INtegrated (SPIN) STAC based Catalogue for ISRO's Planetary and Space Science Missions
P02 Alicia Wise CLOCKSS

Ensuring long-term preservation of data, software and knowledge: the role of LOCKSS and CLOCKSS

P03 Areg Mickaelian Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO)

Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory plate archive: digitization, database and usage

P04 Daniel Westwood CEDA, STFC UKRI

The Challenges of Long-Term Data Preservation in an increasingly Cloud-Native World

P05 Daniele Iozzino Starion Italia S.p.A.

ESA EO Space Data Preservation Archive

P06 David Giaretta PTAB Ltd OAIS Interoperability Framework development
P07 Dimitrios Pervolarakis IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens

An Automated Pipeline for Preserving and Adding Value to Earth Observation Conference Proceedings

P08 Gilles Landais Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, CDS

Providing datasets with added value in the long term with the VizieR service

P09 Martin Kunze Cerabyte KUNZE Ceramic: Permanent & Accessible Digital Data Storage - No more data migration and media replacement
P10 Nancy Ritchey NOAA NCEI

Accelerating Environmental Archives: LOISS and the AI-Driven Transformation of NCEI Data Stewardship

P11 Peter Kretschmar ESA Letting Data Flourish in a Scientific Ecosystem
P12 Roberto Biasutti ESA

Generation of Long Time Data Series for ESA heritage TPM missions

P13 Roland Lindorfer TU Wien

FDR4LDYN: Creating Long-Term Value for Land Surface Monitoring by Preserving and Harmonizing the ERS C-Band Scatterometer Heritage

P14 Thomas Stein Washington University / NASA PDS

Capturing Quality Product Metadata In Planetary Data Archives

P15 Vito Moliterni Starion Group Italia S.p.A.

AI‑Based SAR Image Formation for the Reuse of Archived SAR Level‑0 Data

P16 Witold Arndt German Aerospace Center (DLR)

A Vision for Long-Term Data Retention and Its Challenges – A perspective from the EOSC Task Force on Long-Term Data Retention

P17 Aidan McGinley EUMESAT

Modernising EUMETSAT’s archive: replacing UMARF with LTA

P18 Aleksandra Dotlic ACRI-ST

ALTA - Copernicus LTA Service for Sentinel-1, 2, 3, 5P

P19 Andrea Davidson KU Leuven

Advancing Digital Preservation of Research Data with EOSC EDEN’s Integrated Framework, Services, Guidelines, and Network

P20 Stefan  Wunderle University of Bern FDR4AVHRR – generation of a consolidated fundamental data record (FDR) based on 45 years of AVHRR-LAC data (Europe, Africa, South America and Asia)
P21 Ji-Hye Baek Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

A Strategic Roadmap for Intelligent Multi-Agent-Based Space Weather DataOps

P22 Peter Schwind German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Data curation of IRS-P3-MOS data (1996 – 2004): Overview and Challenges

P23 Steve Donegan CEDA, STFC, UK

Access to Copernicus Data and Services at CEDA

P24 Piotr Klos CloudFerro S.A

Not only Archive. The Integration of LTA and CDSE provides Raw Sentinel-1 data to the wider audience