Day 1 -28 September 2016 Welcome and Introduction National Institute for Marine Research and Development (NIMRD) Grigore 09:00 09:20 Welcome and Introductory Notes Antipa/Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)/European Space Agency (ESA) 09:20 09:40 Commission Keynote: Web-GIS Observatory Network for the Sustainable Development of the Dimadana Zefi/International Centre for Black 09:40 10:00 Black Sea Area Sea Studies, Greece Constantinescu Stefan/University of 10:00 10:20 Keynote: Anthropogenic Intervention in Delta: a Diachronic Perspective , Keynote: Activities of the International Commission for the Protection of the Major Zoran/International Commission for 10:20 10:40 Danube River (ICPDR) and Some Challenges for the Future the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR)

10:40 11:15 Coffee Break Black Sea 1 - Ocean Science I -Chairs: tbc

11:15 11:30 Ongoing Ocean Color Development and Validation Activities in the Black Sea Zibordi Giuseppe/Joint Research Centre,

A New Approach for Extraction of Classes with Similar Evolution In Time From 11:30 11:45 Constantin Sorin/Terrasigna, Romania Satellite Data, Applied To Coastal Area Turbidity Analysis Serebryany Andrey/Shirshov Institute of 11:45 12:00 Internal Waves In The Black Sea: Studies By Usual And Remote Sensing Methods Oceanology RAS, Russian Federation About Remotely Evaluation Characteristics of Water Circulation in Western Part Andrianova Olga/Hydroacoustic Branch of 12:00 12:15 of Black Sea Institute of Geophysics NAS, Ukraine Refining Coastal Altimetry for Eddy Detection and Composite Analysis in the Black 12:15 12:30 Capet Arthur/ECHO, OGS, Trieste, Italy Sea 12:30 14:00 Lunch Black Sea 2 - Ocean Science II - Chairs: tbc Analysis of Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Black Sea Using Remote 14:00 14:15 Sensing Data Serban Ioan Daniel/Terrasigna, Romania Calibration and Validation of Satellite Altimetry Products with Tide Gauge Data in Vrînceanu Cristina Andra/University of 14:15 14:30 the Black Sea Basin Bucharest, Romania The Method Of Calculation Of The Vertical Distribution Of Thermohaline Andrianova Olga/Hydroacoustic Branch of 14:30 14:45 Characteristics By Satellite-Based Information Institute of Geophysics NAS, Ukraine Vandenbulcke Luc/GHER, University of Liege, 14:45 15:00 DINEOF Analyses of Sea Surface Temperature Data in the Black Sea Belgium Operational Oceanographic Model for the Black Sea, Romanian Coast and Braunschweig Frank/Action Modulers - 15:00 15:15 Mamaia Bay Consulting & Technology, Mafra, Portugal 15:15 15:45 Coffee Break Black Sea 3 - Marine and Spatial Planning - Chairs: tbc New Methodologies for an Ecosystem Approach to Spatial and Temporal Radu Gheorghe/NIMRD Grigore Antipa, 15:45 16:00 Management of Fisheries and Aquaculture at Romanian Coastal Zone Romania Assistance Mechanism for the Implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning at the Alexandrov Laura/NIMRD Grigore Antipa, 16:00 16:15 Black Sea Basin under the ECORYS Project Romania Participatory Methods SKETCH MATCH as Support for Spatial Planning in PEGASO Nichersu Iulian/ National 16:15 16:30 Project, Study Case Sulina Area Institute for Research and Development An Integrated Analysis of Maritime Spatial Planning at the Romanian Black Sea Abaza Valeria/NIMRD Grigore Antipa, 16:30 16:45 Coast for a Cross-Border Approach under MARSPLAN-BS Project Romania Vaidianu Natasa/Ovidius University of 16:45 17:00 Development of an Integrated Framework for Marine Spatial Planning in Romania Constanta, Bucharest, Romania 17:00 17:30 Round table: Ocean Priorities from Science to Applications

17:30 18:30 Poster Session and Cocktail Day 2 -29 September 2016 Black Sea 4 - EO and Modelling - Chairs: tbc Palazov Atanas/Institute of Oceanology, 09:00 09:15 Copernicus Black Sea Monitoring and Forecasting Centre Bulgaria Application of Sentinels to Calibrate Hydrology in Data Scares Catchments of the 09:15 09:30 Gvilava Mamuka/ICZM NFP, Georgia Black Sea Short-Range Forecast of Dynamic Fields and Pollution Transport in the Kordzadze Avtandil, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State 09:30 09:45 Easternmost Black Sea University/M. Nodia Institute of Geophysics, Operational Forecasting of the Black Sea: Merging Model Simulations and 09:45 10:00 Vandenbulcke Luc/Liège University, Belgium Satellite Products Estimating the Influence of Hydrodynamic Processes on Pollution Transport in the Nazirova Ksenia/Space Research Institute of 10:00 10:15 Black Sea RAS, Russian Federation 10:15 10:45 Coffee Break Black Sea 5 - Applications (Pollution/Biodiversity/Hydrology) - Chairs: tbc Ivanov Andrei Yu./Shirshov Institute of Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Oil Spills in the Black Sea Based on Long- 10:45 11:00 Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences, Term Monitoring with SAR Russian Federation Closson Damien/EUROSENSE BELFOTOP, 11:00 11:15 SAR-Based Tools for Organic Pollutions Detection and Analysis Belgium Suciu George/BEIA Consult International, 11:15 11:30 Telemetry and Earth Observation Big Data Processing in the Black Sea Region Romania & University Politehnica of Bucharest Margarit Gerard/GMV Aerospace and 11:30 11:45 Maritime Surveillance of Fishing Ships for Law Verification Defence S.A.U., Spain Elefante Stefano/Vienna University of 11:45 12:00 Soil Moisture Big Data Processing Using EODC Environment Technology, Austria 12:00 12:30 Round table: Applications and Science Priorities for the Black Sea 2021 12:30 14:00 Lunch Danube Delta - Chairs: tbc Assessment of the Impact of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on the Dragomyretska Olena/State Institution 14:00 14:15 Development of Abrasion-Landslide Processes in the North-West Coast of the Hydroacoustic Branch of Institute of Black Sea Geophysics, Ukraine Testing and Validation of Sentinel-2,-3 Data for Inland Water Monitoring in 14:15 14:30 Dimitrova Katya/RST-TTO, BAS, Bulgaria Bulgaria Tyler Andrew/University of Stirling, United 14:30 14:45 Towards a Global Observatory of Water Quality Kingdom Earth Observation for the Black Sea with the Coastal Thematic Exploitation 14:45 15:00 Craciunescu Vasile/ACRI-ST, Platform Data Fusion Products for Water Quality Monitoring in the Romanian Black Sea 15:00 15:15 Constantin Sorin/Terrasigna, Romania Coastal Area 15:15 15:45 Coffee Break Coastal and Inland Waters - Chairs: tbc Golumbeanu Mariana/State Institution Application of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Progress Indicators in 15:45 16:00 Hydroacoustic Branch of Institute of the Romanian Black Sea Region Geophysic, Ukraine

16:00 16:15 EO Applications of SAR Data on Danube Delta Site Teleaga Delia/Terrasigna, Romania Synergy between LiDAR, RADARSAT-2 and SPOT-5 Images for the Detection and Niculescu Simona/Institut Universitaire 16:15 16:30 Mapping of Wetland Vegetation in the Danube Delta Européen de la Mer, France Using Satellite Data to Monitor Sediment Fluxes, Water Properties and Particles Constantinescu Adriana Maria/University of 16:30 16:45 Distribution in the Black Sea-Danube Interaction Zone Stirling, United Kingdom

16:45 17:00 SaferDanube - Optimization of Navigation on Danube River Using EO Data Istriteanu Dan Adrian/RARTEL S.A., Romania

17:00 17:30 Round Table Discussion: The Danube Delta - Science and Applications 2021

17:30 18:30 Poster Session and Cocktail Day 3 -30 September 2016 - to be published soon Towards a Black Sea/Danube Regional EO Exploitation Platform The 3rd day of the workshop will be dedicated to discuss with the scientific and applications communities the main requirements and needs to advance towards the development of a Black Sea and Danube regional EO Exploitation Platform. The final programme for the day will be published soon. The session will be introduced by a number of keynotes followed by an open discussion. 09:00 10:00 Introductory Talks ROSA / ESA / ANPN / EC Keynotes introducing the existing capabilities that may contribute to the Black 10:00 11:40 Sea/Danube Regional EO Exploitation Platform 11:40 12:00 Coffee break Towards a Black Sea/Danube Regional EO Exploitation Platform: Open Discussion Open discussions organised around a number of seed questions. This session aims at collecting the needs and requirements as well as to indentify 12:00 13:30 the different building blocks of a Black Sea/Danube Regional EO Exploitation Platform 13:30 14:00 Conslusions and Workshop Closure

Air Quality - Poster

Marmureanu Luminita / National Institute of 1 Air Quality Assessment Using Ground Based Data And Satellite Observations (ID:136) R&D for Optoelectronics, Romania Boscornea Andreea / National Institute for 2 Romanian Airborne Platforms Used for ESA's Earth Observation Programme (ID:154) Aerospace Research Elie Carafoli - INCAS, Romania Air Quality Methodology: Computational Software of Air Pollutant Factores Outcome Mutali Sezen / Naval Academy Mircea cel 3 from Port Activity (ID:139) Batran, Romania Biodiversity - Poster Analyzing Fish Diversity From the Black Sea in the Modern Era 3D and Species Viorel-Dumitru GAVRIL / Institute of Biology 4 Distribution Models Along the Western Coast of Black Sea Coastline (ID:170) Bucharest The Availability of Marine Living Resources from Romanian Black Sea for Biotechnological Daniela Mariana Rosioru /NIMRD Grigore 5 Purpose(ID:125) Antipa, ROMANIA Mierla Marian / Danube Delta National Determining the Potential Areas of Reed in Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Through 6 Institute for Research and Development, Remote Sensing and GIS Methods (ID:111) Tulcea, Romania Andrei Simona / National R&D Institute for 7 Monitoring and Analysis of Fires in the Black Sea Riverside Areas (ID:153) Optoelectronics, Romania Definition of a Baseline Reference Map from VHR Satellite Data Over the Black Sea Yagüe Julia / GMV Aerospace and Defence, 8 Shoreline (ID:127) S.A.U.

Mesozooplankton in Front of the Romanian Black Sea Coast- Composition and Dynamics Bisinicu Elena / NIMRD Grigore Antipa, 9 in 2014 (ID:108) Romania Spring Variation of Chlorophyll a Concentration in the Romanian Black Sea Waters Pantea Elena Daniela / NIMRD Grigore 10 (ID:109) Antipa, Romania The Phanerogams Communities from the Romanian Black Sea Coast – Current Status Marin Oana Alina / NIMRD Grigore Antipa, 11 (ID:110) Romania Method of Investigation and Monitoring Sources of Exhaust Emissions from Ships Badea Ionela / Mircea cel Batran Naval 12 (ID:130) Academy, Romania

13 Marine Litter Surveys along the Romanian Black Sea Coast (ID:126) Nenciu Magda Ioana / NIMRD Grigore Antipa, Romania WebGIS Application for Spatial and Temporal Visualization and Analysis of Satellite 14 Alixandroae Ionut / ESRI Romania Imagery in the Black Sea Zone (ID:163) Carbon cycle - Poster

Mogildea Marian / Institute of Space Science, 15 Photoacoustic Investigation of the Air Quality Using Microwave Fields (ID:161) Romania

Coastal degradation - Poster Human Footprint in Lower Danube Basin. Track Changes in Chilia Secondary Delta Budileanu, Marius / University of Bucharest, 16 Viewed on Historical Maps and Satellite Images. (ID:156) Romania A Fully Neural Network Approach for Unsupervised Change Detection in Earth Neagoe Victor-Emil / Polytechnic University 17 Observation Imagery (ID:164) of Bucharest, Romania Extremes (e.g., heat waves, draughts, floods) - Postert Boldea Afrodita Liliana / Horia Hulubei 18 Preventing Impact of Asteroids with Earth (ID:152) National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania Hydrology - Poster Budileanu Marius / University of Bucharest, 19 The Evolution of the Sulina Mouth from Historical Maps to Sentinel Images. (ID:106) Romania

Stoican Mihaita Gilbert / INCAS Bucuresti, 20 Large Water Waves Propagation (ID:155) Romania

Danube Delta Water Circulation System – Water Balance in Geomorphological Units at Nichersu Iulian / Danube Delta National 21 Low Danube Water Level (ID:112) Institute, Romania Improvement of monitoring abilities of the Black Sea Basin and the Danube Delta region - Poster Linked Data Technologies as a Technological Backbone of Monitoring and Alert Systems 22 Damova Mariana / Mozaika, Bulgaria over the Black Sea Region (ID:150) Land-ocean interactions - Poster Gorgan Dorian / Technical University of Cluj- 23 BigEarth Platform for Earth Observation Data Processing by Black Sea Use Cases (ID:144) Napoca, Romania Ocean science - Poster

24 Image-Based Forecast of the Surface Circulation of Black Sea (ID:120) Herlin Isabelle / INRIA, France The Contribution of Constanta Space Technologies Competence Center “COSMOMAR” to Mateescu Razvan Doru / NIMRD Grigore 25 the Sustainable Development of Romanian Marine and Coastal Areas (ID:133) Antipa, Romania Remote Sensing Applications for the Monitoring of Coastal Water Quality and Coastal Niculescu, Dragos / NIMRD Grigore Antipa, 26 Geomorphological Processes Afferent to the Romanian Black Sea Shore (ID:134) Romania Influence of Wind-Driven Circulation on the Biological Productivity along the Western Mihailov Maria-Emanuela / NIMRD Grigore 27 Black Sea during 2010 - 2015 (ID:149) Antipa, Romania Oil Seeps in The Black Sea Imaged, Detected and Studied with the Spaceborne Synthetic 28 Ivanov Andrei Yu. / University of Bucharest Aperture Radars (ID:104)

29 Satellite Time Series Analysis for Black Sea Surface Changes (ID:162) Sandric Ionut / University of Bucharest

Satellite images - Poster Ioana Vizireanu / National Institute for A Comparison of Object-Based Classification Applied on Different Resolution Satellite 30 Aerospace Research Elie Carafoli, Bucharest, Images (ID:171) Romania Water Cycle - Poster Hasenauer Stefan / EODC Earth Observation The EODC Earth Observation Platform: Connecting Science, Development and Operations 31 Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring in the Danube Region (ID:135) GmbH, Austria Wetland monitoring - Poster

Dobrota Cristina Teodora / Babes Bolyai 32 Assessment of Greening Effect on Musura Gulf - Danube Delta (ID:146) University, Institute of Technology Romania