1. The GOFC-GOLD South Central and Eastern European Network (SCERIN)
the way forward
Petya Campbell1 and Jana Albrechtová2
1Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
2Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Prague, Czech Republic
GOFC-GOLD RN Summit
13-16 September, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia

2. SCERIN Action Items (2017-2018)
action items (from SCERIN-5, June 2017)
Improved web site with: participants and projects pages and links to data
Complete P1, advance P2, P3 and P4
Selection of SCERIN stable reference sites for 30m land products (January-March 2018)
SCERIN data initiative: of active projects, data collections and methods/publications
GOFC-GOLD RN Summit
13-16 September, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia

3. The 3 Years Plan - Research
SCERIN’s 3 most important research topics (3 RTs)
Changes in vegetation cover, function (yield/assimilation) and ecosystem diversity with transition to free market, agricultural land abandonment and urban expansion
Regional LCLUC validation/verification of methods and products
Inbalance in the water regime of the SCEE, especially the Danube watershed (floods/droughts and fires) - NEW
! Improved web site with databases
GOFC-GOLD RN Summit
13-16 September, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia

4. The 3 Years Plan - Training
Training associated with the 3 RTs:
Transition from detection of LCC to analysis of trends or LCD
Methods and tools for combined use of diverse datasets, for obtaining information across scales and at relevant time step
Change detection: Landsat + Sentinel + MODIS + Radar
Calibration: VHR + Spectroscopy
Canopy height and structure: photogrammetry and lidar
GOFC-GOLD RN Summit
13-16 September, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia

5. Current SCERIN Support
Main Sponsorship by GOFC-GOLD/START and NASA/LCLUC
Support of participating professionals from their organizations
Host and regional partnerships offering partial sponsorship
GOFC-GOLD RN Summit
13-16 September, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia

6. Potential Future Support
SCERIN proposals for joint research projects and networking
Joint Project Proposal 2018, INTERREG, Towards balanced water regime of Central European landscape ; PI: František Zemek intended in 2018 (+Moldova and Ukraine)
Joint Project Proposal EU COST Action as a platform for GOFC-GOLD + SCERIN activities (to consider)
Smaller proposals and collaborative work by collaborating groups within SCERIN
Visiting Scholars (Fulbright, other)
Graduate studies
Research grants
NEW - Opportunity for leveraging/collaboration among the GOFC-GOLD networks for exchange of tools for product validation; and flood, fire and snow prediction and mapping in SCERIN.
GOFC-GOLD RN Summit
13-16 September, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia

7. Long Term Vision Active collaboration with the other RNs and the IT
Get SCERIN on the maps
GOFC-GOLD RN Summit
13-16 September, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia

8. Benefit of having SCERIN
joint projects and publications
networking for knowledge and technology exchange (tools)
using both Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 data, and knowledge of the processing methodology in land use change monitoring
joint information and database for land monitoring
training to improve qualification
data and methods exchange for satellite products evaluation
facilitate teaching BS classes (tools and curriculum)
student and faculty mobility – short and long term visits
GOFC-GOLD RN Summit
13-16 September, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia