Conference Agenda

Exploring the Relation of Livability Mapping and Flood Exposure Analysis by Combining Remote Sensing and Citizen Science

Enzo Campomanes¹, Lorraine Trento Oliveira¹, Mariana Belgiu², Angela Abascal¹, Anne Dijkstra¹, Monika Kuffer¹

1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain

Identification And Mapping Of High-Risk Urban Settlements For Malaria Control Using Artificial Intelligence And Building Morphological Metrics for Nigerian Cities

Laurette Mhlanga¹, Laique Merlin Djeutchouang^1,2, Hephzibah A Adenji¹, Bernard O Boateng¹, Eniola A Bamgboye¹, Joshua Akinyemi^3,4,5, Akintayo O Ogunwale^2,6, IkeOluwapo Ajayi^2,3, Ifeoma D Ozodiegwu¹

1: Loyola University, Chicago, United States of America; 2: School for Climate Studies, Stellenbosch University; 3: Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Unit, Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training (IAMRAT), College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria; 4: Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria; 5: Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria; 6: Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun, Nigeria

Understanding Informal Settlement Transformation through Google's 2.5D Dataset and Street View based Validation

Sai Ganesh Veeravalli^1,2, Stefanos Georganos¹, John Friesen³, Jan Haas¹

1: Geomatics, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden; 2: Risk and Environmental Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden; 3: Department of Global Urbanization and Remote Sensing, University of Wurzburg, Germany

Using Low-Cost Sensors and Citizen Science: Assessing Thermal Inequality In African Slums

Sally Ama Sampson¹, Angela Abascal², Jion Wang³, Sabine Vanhysse⁴, Ignacio Rodríguez Carreño⁵, Ignacio Garcia Ruiz², Monika Kuffer³

1: Navarra Centre for International Development (NCID), Universidad de Navarra; 2: Department of Engineering, Public University of Navarre (UPNA); 3: Faculty of Geo-Information Science & Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente; 4: Department of Geosciences, Environment & Society, Université libre De Bruxelles (ULB); 5: Business Department, School of Business Administration and Economics, University of Navarra

Integrating Remote Sensing and Digital Geomedia for Sustainable Vocational Training and Cultural Landscape Conservation: Insights from a Collaborative Workshop in Southern Germany

Paul Joseph¹, Tobias Gehrig¹, Maike Petersen¹, Alexander Siegmund^1,2

1: Institute for Geography and Geocommunication– Research Group for Earth Observation (rgeo), Heidelberg University of Education; 2: Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) & Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Germany

Structuring Thesis Topics within the Copernicus Master in Digital Earth: Preparing Alumni for Future-Oriented Careers in the Space Industry

Karima Hadj-Rabah, Stefan Lang, Zahra Dabiri, Barbara Brunner-Maresch

Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria

The INTEGRAL Project: Building Geo-Technology Capacity for Resilient Agricultural Adaptation in Lao PDR through European-Asian Academic Collaboration

Marinos Kavouras¹, Eleni Tomai¹, Margarita Kokla¹, Vassilios Tsihrintzis¹, Christina Karakizi¹, Athanasia Darra¹, Maria Bezerianou¹, Ali Mansourian², Jean-Nicolas Poussart², Avakat Phasouysaingam³, Inta Chanthavong⁴, Phetsavanh Somsivilay⁴, Nouphone Manivanh⁵, Khandala Khamphila⁶, Sisomphone Southavong⁶

1: National Technical University of Athens, Greece; 2: Lund University, Sweden; 3: National University of Laos, Lao PDR; 4: Savannakhet University, Lao PDR; 5: Souphanouvong University, Lao PDR; 6: Champasack University, Lao PDR

Educational Aspects Of Using Google Earth Engine: Training Course For Educators By The Junior Academy Of Sciences Of Ukraine

Stanislav Dovgyi¹, Svitlana Babiichuk², Olha Tomchenko^3,5, Lidiia Davybida^4,5, Mariia Biletska⁵

1: Office of the President of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine; 2: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA; 3: State Institution “Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, Ukraine; 4: Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ukraine; 5: National Centre "Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine", Ukraine

Innovative Data Solutions for Inclusive Cities: The IDEAtlas User Portal

Bedru Tareke¹, Paulo Silva Filho¹, Monika Kuffer¹, Claudio Persello¹, Raian V. Maretto¹, Jon Wang¹, Angela Abascal², Priam Pillai³, Binti Singh⁴, Juan Manuel D'Attoli⁵, Caroline Kabaria⁶, Juilo Pedrassoli⁶, Patricia Brito⁷, Peter Elias⁸, Elio Atenógenes⁹, Andrea Ramírez Santiago⁹, Wahyu Mulyana¹⁰, Jati Pratomo¹, Ruth Leska¹¹, Jan Streitenberger¹¹, Dennis Mwaniki¹², Dana R. Thomson¹³, Ronald Jansen¹⁴

1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain; 3: Pillai College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai, India; 4: KRVIA, Mumbai, India; 5: National Registry of Informal Settlements, Argentina; 6: APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya; 7: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; 8: University of Lagos, Nigeria; 9: INEGI, Mexico; 10: Urban and Regional Development Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia; 11: GeoVille, Austria; 12: UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya; 13: Colombia University, US; 14: United Nations Statistics Division, US

3D Building Reconstruction Based on Publicly Available Satellite Data in Nairobi

Yingying Pei¹, Qunshan Zhao², Junye Wang¹, Zhi Zheng³, Xinyi Liu¹, Yongjun Zhang¹, Yi Wan¹

1: School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, China; 2: Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 3: Dpt. of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK, N.T, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

The Shape Of Urban Life: Built Form of Cities Across Africa Reveals Socioeconomic Status

Jiong Wang¹, Angela Abascal², Stefanos Georganos³, Sabine Vanhuysses⁴

1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: Public University of Navarre (UPNA); 3: Geomatics, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden; 4: Université libre De Bruxelles

Assessment of Biases in Crop Detection of Common Land Cover Products in sub-Saharan Africa

E. Sophia Klaußner¹, Gary Watmough², Stefan Lang¹

1: University of Salzburg, Austria; 2: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Assessment of Economic Well-being in South Africa Based on Remote Sensing Transfer Learning

Longfei Wang^1,2, Tengfei Long^1,2, Elhadi Adam³

1: Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100094, China; 2: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 3: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa

The First Year of Operation of AVIRIS-4: Calibration and Data Processing Advances

Luc Jérôme Sierro¹, Marius Vögtli¹, Mathias Kneubühler¹, Andreas Baumgartner², Gabriel Scheib², Andreas Hüni¹

1: University of Zurich, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Switzerland; 2: German Aerospace Center, Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Germany

Improving Oil Spill Response: UAV VNIR-SWIR Hyperspectral Monitoring

Carlos Roberto Souza Filho

University of Campinas, Brazil

Cloud detection in Hyperspectral Images With Atmospheric column WAter vapor: the CHIWAWA method. Application to AVIRIS-NG, PRISMA and ENMAP images

Alexandre Alakian

ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, France

Reflectance Spectroscopy as a Tool for Identification of Historic Stone

Eva Matoušková, Kateřina Kovářová, Michal Cihla

Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic

High-resolution Hyperspectral Aerial Imagery For Forest Health Monitoring

Hafiz Ali Imran, Daniela Poli, Giada Ceola

AVT Airborne Sensing Italia srl, Italy

Shifting Landscapes in Nairobi: Unveiling Slum Dynamics, Growth, and Mobility Patterns Over Time

Nicolas J. Kraff¹, Angela Abascal², John Friesen³, Monika Kuffer⁴, Hannes Taubenböck^1,3

1: German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Wessling, Germany; 2: Department of Engineering, Public University of Navarra (UPNA), Pamplona, Spain; 3: Institute for Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany; 4: Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands

Towards a Spatial Measure of SDG 11.1.1: Open Data for Urban Deprivation Mapping

Stefanos Georganos¹, Sai Ganesh Veeravalli¹, Florencio Campones V², Sebastian Hafner³, John Friesen⁴, Dana R. Thomson⁵, Robert Ndugwa⁶, Dennis Mwaniki⁶, Angela Abascal⁷, Peter Elias⁸, Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo⁹, Julio Pedrassoli¹⁰, Gabriel de Oliveira¹¹, Anthony Boanada-Fuchs¹², Boris Zerjav¹³, Monika Kuffer², Juan Manuel D'Attoli¹⁴

1: Geomatics, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden; 2: ITC, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands; 3: UBDC, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; 4: Dept. of Remote Sensing, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; 5: CIESIN, Columbia Climate School, New York, USA; 6: Data & Analytics, UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya; 7: Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; 8: University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria; 9: Dept. of Geography, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA; 10: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA; 11: University of South Alabama, Alabama, USA; 12: HIS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands; 13: World Bank, Belgrade, Serbia; 14: Registro Nacional de Barrios Populares

Modelling heat susceptibility in Deprived Urban Areas with open Earth Observation images and geospatial datasets

Sabine Vanhuysse¹, Angela Abascal², Jiong Wang³, Stefanos Georganos⁴, Monika Kuffer³, Eléonore Wolff¹

1: Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium; 2: Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Spain; 3: University of Twente, The Netherlands; 4: Geomatics, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

Fractional Woody Cover Mapping in a South African Savannah using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Ancillary data

Christina Karakizi^1,2, Olympia Gounari², Eleni Sofikiti², Georgios Begkos², Konstantinos Karantzalos², Elias Symeonakis¹

1: Manchester Metropolitan University; 2: National Technical University of Athens

Estimation Of Foliar Trace Elements From Spectroscopy In Poplar Within A Context Of Phytomanagement

Solofoniaina Andriamihajason^1,2, Julien Parelle², Sophie Fabre¹

1: Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales, France; 2: Chrono-Environnement, UMR 6249, Université-Franche-Comté, France

Modelling Soil Loss Rates Trend and Prediction in Romanian Under Climate Change and Vegetation Cover and Management Dynamics by Incorporating the Inter-annual and Intra-annual Variability of RUSLE Factors

Marina Vîrghileanu¹, Ionuț Șandric¹, Bogdan-Andrei Mihai¹, Alexandra Rizac²

1: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Romania; 2: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Simion Mehedinti Doctoral School, Romania

Mapping Retrogressive Thaw Slumps in Arctic Permafrost Using Super-Resolution Deep Learning

Ionut Sandric, Adrian Vasile, Alexandra Pana, Radu Irimia

Faculty of Geography, Univerity of Bucharest, Romania

Surface Temperature And Soil Moisture Estimates Across Cropland And Agroforestry: UAV-Borne Imagery And Ground Sensors Synergy

Jiri Rous, Jan Komarek

Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic

Streamlining Urban Tree Data Collection: A Case Study On Olomouc Housing Estates

Matěj Kašpar, Aleš Létal

Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

Enhancing UAV Technology for Sustainable Environmental Monitoring through ACCELERATE research project

George P. Petropoulos¹, Spyridon Detsikas¹, Litke Antotonis², Georgios Nektarios Tselos¹

1: Harokopio University of Athens, Greece, Greece; 2: INNOV-ΑCTS LTD, Nicosia, Cyprus

Optimization of Spectral Indices for the Separation of Soils and Mining Excavations

Krystyna Michałowska¹, Ewa Głowienka¹, Tomasz Pirowski¹, Eva Savina Malinverni²

1: AGH University of Krakow, Poland; 2: Marche Polytechnic University, Italy

The Spruce Dilemma: Monitoring of Coniferous Forest Productivity by Remote Sensing and Ground Observations

Antonín Kusbach^1,2, Krejza Jan^1,2, Lucie Homolová¹

1: Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences - CzechGlobe; 2: Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University

Harmonizing Satellite Thermal Data with Ground-based Observations for Climate Long-term Monitoring

Ewa Glowienka¹, Eva Savina Malinverni², Marsia Sanita², Krystyna Michalowska¹, Marcin Kucza¹

1: AGH University of Krakow, Poland; 2: Marche Polytechnic University

Multi-Scale Monitoring Of Peatland Restoration (MooRe)

Sarah Gutermuth¹, Sebastian Friedrich¹, Werner Wiedemann², Clara Siegert², Florian Siegert², Matthias Drösler¹

1: Peatland Science Centre, Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, 85354 Freising, Germany; 2: RSS - Remote Sensing Solutions GmbH, 80687 München, Germany

Can Hyperspectral Time Series Based on Fusion of Sentinel-2 and EnMAP Data Reveal Hidden Habitat Patterns?

Nikolina Mileva

European Space Agency, Italy

HyTIR – an Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging Research Platform in the LWIR Wavelength Range

Uwe Knauer, Marion Pause, Bastian Sander

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Recent upgrades of Flying Laboratory of Imaging Systems

Jan Hanuš¹, Tomáš Hanousek^1,2, Tomáš Fabiánek¹, Lukáš Fajmon¹, Daniel Kopkáně¹

1: UVGZ AV CR - CzechGlobe, Czech Republic; 2: Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University

A spectral library for soil properties monitoring from the Kopaida Plain, Greece

Spyridon E. Detsikas¹, George P. Petropoulos¹, Dionysios Gasparatos², Nikos Koutsias³

1: Harokopio University of Athens, Greece; 2: Laboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece; 3: Department of Sustainable Agriculture, University of Patras, G. Seferi 2, GR-30130 Agrinio, Greece

Applying the OPTRAM Soil Moisture Model to Wetlands

Micha Silver¹, Yuval Ziskin¹, Ricardo Diaz-Delgado², Arnon Karnieli¹

1: Remote Sensing Lab, Sde Boker Campus, Ben Gurion University, Israel; 2: Remote Sensing & GIS Lab (LAST), Doñana Biological Station-CSIC, Spain

EnMAP-derived biocrusts indices

Arnon Karnieli¹, Natalya Panov², Micha Siver³

1: Ben Gurion University, Israel; 2: Ben Gurion University, Israel; 3: Ben Gurion University, Israel

Sentinel-2 Time Series For Vegetation Mapping and Monitoring In A Former Ore Processing Site

Sophie Fabre, Alice Laloue, Pierre-Yves Froissart, Rollin Gimenez

ONERA, France

Evaluation of Copper-Induced Stress in Asimina Plants Based on Non-Invasive Spectroscopy Techniques

Laura Mihai¹, Ioana-Mihaela Mihalcioiu², Razvan Mihalcea¹, Mihai Serbanescu¹, Ana Cornelia Butcaru³, Florin Stanica²

1: Center for Advanced Laser Technologies, National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania; 2: Faculty of Horticulture, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, 59 Mărăști Blvd, District 1, Bucharest, Romania; 3: Research Center for Studies of Food Quality and Agricultural Products, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, 59 Mărăști Blvd, District 1, Bucharest, Romania

Advancing Hyperspectral Image Classification with Deep Features Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms

Mohammed Bilel Amri^1,2, Dounia Yedjour³, Mohammed El Amin Larabi⁴, Faouzi Berrichi¹

1: Agence Spatiale Algérienne, Centre des Techniques Spatiales, Arzew, Algeria; 2: Laboratoire SIMPA, Département Informatique, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie d’Oran, Mohamed Boudiaf USTO-MB, Oran, Algeria; 3: Université des Sciences et de la Technologie d’Oran, Mohamed Boudiaf USTO-MB, Oran, Algeria; 4: Agence Spatiale Algérienne, Algiers, Algeria