M.Sc. Bio-Engineering (agriculture: crop growth and protection) High School

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE ISABELLE PICCARD 1. Family name: Piccard 2. First names: Isabelle 3. Date of birth: 28/04/ Passport holder: Belgium 5. Residence: Belgium 6. Company: VITO 7. Education: Institution (Date from - Date to) KULeuven ( ) KULeuven ( ) Amandinacollege Herk-de-Stad ( ) Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: M.Sc. Bio-Engineering (agriculture: crop growth and protection) Bachelor Bio-Engineering High School 8. Additional Training: Institution (Date from - Date to) KULeuven ( ) Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained: KULeuven teaching course 9. Language Skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 - excellent; 5 - basic) Language Reading Speaking Writing Dutch (Mother Tongue) English French German Spanish Other Skills: GIS and Remote Sensing Office Tools Project Management Academic Writing Skills 11. Present Position: Research and Development; o Senior Scientist at VITO-TAP (Flemish Institute for Technological Research in the Remote Sensing Department) o ISAC (FP7) Project Coordinator o Several feasibility studies on EO for agricultural insurances 12. Working Experience / Years within the Firm: Working Experience: 16 years (since 1998) Years within VITO: 13 Years (since 2001) 13. Key Qualifications: GIS & Remote Sensing: o Use of GIS & RS tools (ENVI, ArcGIS, SPIRITS, ) 1 / 5

2 o Development of Applications based upon GIS & RS tools o Experienced in interpretation of Remote Sensing data (high to low resolution) for the use in Agricultural Applications (crop mapping, crop monitoring, damage and risk assessment,...) Network o Throughout the past years and based upon experiences gained through the different projects in VITO and excellent network of contact points has been build, at research level (good connections with research institutes, universities, private companies etc. working on agricultural applications and with EO data providers), but also at customer level (active contacts with governmental agencies, insurance companies, farmers organizations in Belgium, with the European Commission s Joint Research Centre, with the European Federation of (Re-) insurers and some of its members, etc.) Project Management: o Management of national and international projects for different funding agencies (European Union: FP7 and JRC, Belgian Science Policy Office,...). Focus of these projects is on the use of Remote Sensing data for Agricultural Applications Organisational Skills: o experienced in organising project meetings, national and international workshops and user oriented meetings Agriculture o Expert Knowledge in Agriculture Team Player o Capacity to work in International Environment 2 / 5

3 14. Professional experience Date from - Date to 2001-present Location Company & reference person 1 (name & contact details) Mol, VITO Belgium Boeretang Mol Position Research and Development Description Development of products and services based on EO for: Agricultural monitoring (agromet bulletins) Crop damage and risk assessment (for insurances) Crop mapping Bree, Belgium Agro Seed Service Industrieterrein Kanaal Noord Bree VITO Project Coordinator of several national and international Project Coordinator (European) projects such as MARSOP-2 and ASEMARS, GLOBAM, ADASCIS, ISAC (overall coordinator),... Researcher Pea breeding: development of new pea varieties Development of new, non-destructive methods for quality assessment of peas (including optical near-sensing methods) 1 The Contracting Authority reserves the right to contact the reference persons. If you have any objection to this fact, kindly state so and provide a justification. 3 / 5

4 15. Other relevant information (e.g. Publications) Tychon, B., Djaby B., Piccard I., Eerens, H., Oger, R. Buffet, D Agrometeorologische berichten voor België (agromet bulletins for Belgium, published 3x / year, since 2003) Piccard, I., Bydekerke, L., Agricultural monitoring and damage assessment with satellite images in Flanders. In: "The Growing Use of GMES across Europe's Regions", joint publication of NEREUS and ESA, p18. Piccard I., R. Oger, B. Tychon, M. Foguenne, C. Marlier Development of remote sensing and agrometeorological indices for crop damage and risk assessment in support of the Belgian Agricultural Calamity Fund and the insurance sector / EARSeL Newsletter - vol. 85 Piccard I., Durgun Ö., Heyns W., Eerens, H Information Service on Agricultural Change (ISAC). 'Let's embrace space' book of publications, volume 2. Published by EC-DG Entreprise and Industry, Piccard I., Satellite based information for timely and objective crop damage assessment. VITO Annual Report 2011, pp Piccard I., ISAC, information service on agricultural change: Dealing with droughts in an era of climate change. In: Space Research, a European journey volume 1. Published by EC-DG Entreprise and Industry, Eerens H, Baruth B, Bydekerke L, Deronde B, Dries J, Goor E, Heyns W, Jacobs T, Ooms B, Piccard I, Royer A, Swinnen E, Timmermans A, Van Roey T, Vereecken J, Verheijen Y Ten-Daily Composites of METOP-AVHRR. Proceedings 6th International Symposium on Digital Earth Verbeiren S, Eerens H, Bauwens I, Piccard I, Van Orshoven J, 2008, Sub-pixel classification of SPOT VEGETATION time series for the assessment of regional crop areas in Belgium. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation - 10: Swinnen E, Claes P, Eerens H, Heyns W, Piccard I, Viaene P, 2007, An integrated long term series of 1km resolution NDVI for Europe from the NOAA-AVHRR and SPOT-VEGETATION sensors. International workshop on the analysis of multi-temporal remote sensing inmages - CD-ROM: IEEE Catalog Number: 07EX1634C, IEEE, Belgium Verbeiren S, Eerens H, Bossyns B, Piccard I, Van Orshoven J, Pre- and post-harvest crop area assessment in Belgium using SPOT-VEGETATION and TERRA-MODIS time series. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop of the EARSel Special interest Group on Land use en Land cover - p Piccard I, Eerens H, Oger R, Curnel Y, Tychon B, Ozer P, Van Diepen K, Boogaard H, Genovese G, Nègre T, Wang Y & Li X, Use of SPOT-VEGETATION in different versions of the European Crop Growth Monitoring System. In: F. Veroustraete, E. Bartholome and W.W. Verstraten (Eds.), 2nd International Vegetation User conference, March European Commission DG JRC, Antwerpen, pp Leroy M, Piccard I, Lindau R, Olesen F, Pessanha L, Rosema A, Roujean J.-L, Rubel F, Wagner W, Weis M, Kaptein A, 2004, Towards GMES services related to the continental environment: the Geoland project and its biogeophysical parameters core service component. In: F. Veroustraete, E. Bartholome and W.W. Verstraten (Eds.), 2nd International Vegetation User conference, March European Commission DG JRC, Antwerpen, pp Eerens H, Piccard I., Royer A, Orlandi S, 2004, Volume 3: Remote Sensing, data processing and analysis. Methodology of the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System - Vol. 3 Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxemburg Piccard I, Eerens H, Kempeneers P, Verheijen Y, The use of NOAA-AVHRR and SPOT-VEGETATION in the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS). Proceedings of the CGMS Expert Meeting - No. 1, p. 250, JRC - IPSC - Mars unit, Ispra (Italy) Dong Q, Eerens H, Piccard I, Oger R, Tychon B, Ozer P, The use of high and low resolution satellite imagery for crop monitoring and yield forecasting in Heilongjiang province. International symposium on space technology applications for sustainable dry-land development and desertification monitoring, Beijing (China), Boogaard H, Eerens H, Supit I, Diepen C van, Piccard I and Kempeneers P, 2002, Description of the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS), METAMP-report 1/3, Alterra, Supit Consultancy and VITO, JRC-contract F1FED ISP NL. Piccard I, Diepen C van, Boogaard H, Supit I, Eerens H & Kempeneers P, 2002, Other yield forecasting systems: description and comparison with the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS), METAMP-report 2/3, Alterra, Supit Consultancy and VITO, JRC-contract F1FED ISP NL. 4 / 5

5 Supit I, Eerens H, Diepen C van, Boogaard H, Piccard I and Kempeneers P, 2002, Recommendations for the improvement of the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS), METAMP-report 3/3, Alterra, Supit Consultancy and VITO, JRC-contract F1FED ISP NL, 55p. Piccard I, Eerens H, Kempeneers P, Verheijen Y, 2002b, RNA-project: Reprocessing of the MARS NOAA-AVHRR archive with SpacePC+: final report. JRC-contract Piccard I, Eerens H, Kempeneers P, VerheijenY, 2002c, The use of NOAA-AVHRR and SPOT-VEGETATION in the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS). In: Proceedings of the CGMS Expert Meeting, 30 September-1 October 2002, IPSC-JRC, Ispra, Italy Decrem M, Oger R, Buffet D, Gego E, Ozer P, Tychon B, Weinzaepflen E, Eerens H, Piccard I, 2002, Questionning the importance of crop growth simulation for prediction of winter wheat yields in Belgium, European Society for Agronomy - Conference, July, 15-18, 2002, Cordoba, Spain Eerens H, Kempeneers P, Piccard I, Verheijen Y, 2001, Crop Monitoring and Yield Forecasting with NOAA-AVHRR or SPOT-VEGETATION, Remote Sensing & Geo-informatie nr.2, August / 5