Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 26/May/2025
8:00am - 5:00pmRegistration
Location: Foyer - Ground Floor
9:00am - 9:15amOpening ceremony
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Eva Matoušková
Eva Matoušková, CTU Prague, local organiser
Jean-Christophe Schyns, EARSeL President
9:15am - 9:45amKeynote 1: Annemarie Bastrup-Birk: Remote Sensing Techniques for Comprehensive Forest Monitoring: Bridging Policy Needs and Technical Challenges
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Janik Deutscher
Session Chair: Manuela Hirschmugl
9:50am - 11:00amW1 Forestry: AI-based Solutions and Single Tree Detection
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Janik Deutscher
Session Chair: Manuela Hirschmugl
 
ID: 218 / W1 Forestry: 1

Multi-model Approach for Tree Detection and Classification in Wallonia Region (Belgium)

Nicola Dimarco, Benoît Bartiaux, Louis Andreani, Romy Schlögel

Spacebel sa., Earth Observation Applications, Angleur, Belgium



ID: 219 / W1 Forestry: 2

Scaling Individual Tree Crown Segmentation using Large Vision Models

Jacopo Lungo Vaschetti, Edoardo Arnaudo, Claudio Rossi

LINKS Foundation, Italy



ID: 166 / W1 Forestry: 3

Tree Crown Damage Detection In Aerial Imagery Using Robust Deep Learning Models

Javier Francisco Gonzalez, Adelheid Wallner

LWF, Germany



ID: 262 / W1 Forestry: 4

TreeAI: a Global Database for Tree Species Annotations and High-resolution Aerial Imagery

Zhongyu Xia1, Mirela Beloiu Schwenke1, Yan Cheng2, Arthur Gessler1,3, Teja Kattenborn4, Xinlian Liang5, Clemens Mosig6, Stefano Puliti7, Nataliia Rehush3, Lars Waser8, Verena C. Griess1, Martin Mokros9

1Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland; 2University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland; 4Department for Sensor-based Geoinformatics, University of Freiburg; 5State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China; 6Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research, Leipzig; 7Norwegian Institute for Bio-economy Research (NIBIO) National Forest Inventory, Norway; 8Remote sensing group, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland; 9Department of Geography, University College London, United Kingdom



ID: 189 / W1 Forestry: 5

AI-based Assessment of Bark Beetle Infestation Risk with Sentinel-2

Janik Deutscher1, Andreas Wimmer1, Martin Puhm1, Klaus Haslinger2

1Joanneum Research, Institute for Digital Technologies, Graz, Austria; 2GeoSphere Austria, Department for Climate-Impact-Research, Vienna, Austria

 
9:50am - 11:00amUAS S1
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Lammert Kooistra
Session Chair: Anna Zmarz
 
ID: 112 / UAS S1: 1

UAV Based Monitoring Of Cover Crop Effects On Nitrogen Uptake Dynamics For Barley

Lammert Kooistra1, Nikos Vavlas2, Paolo Dal Lago1, Gerlinde De Deyn2

1Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing (GRS), Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; 2Soil Biology Group (SBL), Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands



ID: 188 / UAS S1: 2

Habitat Selection Preferences Of Antarctic Fauna: Spatial Analysis Based On UAV- Derived Data

Małgorzata Korczak-Abshire1, Anna Zmarz2

1Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences; 2University of Warsaw, Poland



ID: 168 / UAS S1: 3

Optimizing Class Definition For Classification Of Ink Disease Severity In Chestnut Forest Groves

Kyra Nancie Smith1, Elena Belcore1, Marco Piras1, Mattia Balestra2, Federico Fiorani2, Alessandro Vitali2

1Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 2Università Politecnica delle Marche



ID: 171 / UAS S1: 4

UAS Data and Machine Learning for Precise Monitoring of Peat Bog Vegetation: A Case Study of Kyselé Kouty (Krkonoše Mts.)

Adam Kulich, Lucie Kupková, Lucie Červená, Jakub Lysák

Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Carthography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic

 
11:00am - 11:30amWS Forestry: Coffee Break + Poster Exhibition (starting 10:45)
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Janik Deutscher
Session Chair: Manuela Hirschmugl
 
ID: 213 / WS Forestry: 1

Urban Trees for Changing Climates: Insights for Bavarian Cities

Julian Fäth1, John Friesen2, Andrea Sofia Garcia de León2, Julia Rieder1, Christian Schäfer1, Tobias Leichtle3, Tobias Ullmann1, Hannes Taubenböck1,3

1Department of Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg, Germany; 2Department of Global Urbanization and Remote Sensing, Institute for Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg, Germany; 3German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Wessling, Germany



ID: 152 / WS Forestry: 2

Approaching the EUDR by a Combination of Crowd Sourcing and Remote Sensing

Manuela Hirschmugl1,2, Nik Cepirlo2, Caroline Kunesch3, Koimé Kouacou4

1Dept. of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; 2Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria; 3BOKU University of Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; 4BeetleForTech, Vienna, Austria



ID: 244 / WS Forestry: 3

Detection of Early Symptoms of Bark Beetle Infestation in Norway Spruce Forests over Past 10 Years

Vojtěch Bárta

Global Change Research Institute, CAS, Czech Republic



ID: 175 / WS Forestry: 4

Timberline change modelling (1970s to 2023) in the context of climate change. An integrated approach in Iezer Mountains, Southern Carpathians.

Bogdan Andrei Mihai1, Carmen Bizdadea2, Ionuț Săvulescu1, Marina Vîrghileanu1, Liviu Toma3

1University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Romania; 2Simion Mehedinți Doctoral School, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography , Romania; 3GISBOX Srl



ID: 191 / WS Forestry: 5

FUTUREFOR - Copernicus Applications for Next-Generation Forest Monitoring

Conrad Bielski1, Jakob Lobensteiner1, Gunter Zeug1, Annemarie Bastrup-Birk2

1Riscognition GmbH, Germany; 2University of Copenhagen, Denmark

 
11:00am - 11:30amCoffee Break
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
11:30am - 1:00pmW2 Forestry: 3D Forest Modelling
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Janik Deutscher
Session Chair: Manuela Hirschmugl
 
ID: 140 / W2 Forestry: 1

Towards Integrating Spectral And Physiological Forest Modelling

Ephraim Schmidt-Riese1, Fabian Fassnacht2, Jean-Baptiste Féret3, Florian de Boissieu3, Rüdiger Grote4, Pia Kräft1, Robert Jackisch1, Christine Wallis1, Michael Förster1

1Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; 2Freie Universität Berlin; 3UMR-TETIS, INRAE; 4Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie



ID: 121 / W2 Forestry: 2

Digital Forest Inventory Using Fused UAV and PLS Point Cloud Data

Ramazan Bülbül1, Stefan Reder1, Ferréol Berendt2, Kevin Beiler1, Tobias Cremer2, Jan-Peter Mund1

1Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Department for GIS and Remote Sensing, Eberswalde, Germany; 2Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde, Department of Forest Utilization and Timber Market, Eberswalde, Germany



ID: 131 / W2 Forestry: 3

Mapping Old-growth Beech Forest by Means of Sentinel-2 and LiDAR Data in Various Regions of Europe

Manuela Hirschmugl1,2, Carina Sobe2, Selina Schaar2, Peter Meyer3, Kris Vandekerkhove4

1Dept. of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; 2Joanneum Research, DIGITAL, Graz, Austria; 3Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt, Münden, Germany; 4Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Belgium



ID: 135 / W2 Forestry: 4

Modeling Forest Stand Variability By Means Of Remotely Sensed Vertical Structure Parameters

Florian Josef Lippl1, Manuela Hirschmugl1,2

1University of Graz, Austria, Austria; 2Institute for Digital Technologies, JOANEEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH



ID: 149 / W2 Forestry: 5

Identification Of Biochemical Traits In Spectral Signatures At The Leaf Level In A Mixed Beech Forest In Northeast Germany

Pia Kräft1, Michael Förster1, Ralf Kätzel2, Ephraim Schmidt-Riese1, Robert Jackisch1, Christine Wallis1

1Technical University Berlin, Germany; 2State Competence Centre Forestry Eberswalde, Germany

 
11:30am - 1:00pmUAS S2
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Lammert Kooistra
Session Chair: Anna Zmarz
 
ID: 251 / UAS S2: 1

Calibrating UAV-Based Uncooled Thermal Cameras for Crop Water Stress Detection: Insights from Mission Planning to Post-Processing

Quanxing Wan1, Magdalena Smigaj1, Benjamin Brede2, Lammert Kooistra1

1Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands; 2GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany



ID: 236 / UAS S2: 2

Automated Detection of Recent Mud Extrusions Using UAV Imagery and Deep Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Traditional and CNN-Based Approaches

Massimiliano Guastella1,2, Raffaele Martorana2, Antonino D'Alessandro3, Antonino Pisciotta3

1Dept. of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, DICEA - Sapienza University of Rome; 2Dept. of Earth and Marine Sciences, DiSTeM – Università degli Studi di Palermo; 3National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, INGV –Roma, Italy



ID: 212 / UAS S2: 3

Mapping with UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) of Natura 2000 Habitat Type 6210 (Dry Continental Grasslands) in the Učka Nature Park

Tonko Megyery1, Marta Rogošić1, Nela Jantol1, Iva Odak1, Zrinka Mesić2

1Oikon Ltd. - Institute of Applied Ecology; Zagreb, Croatia; 2Karlovac University of Applied Sciences; Karlovac, Croatia



ID: 129 / UAS S2: 4

Expansion or Error? Evaluating of Small Vegetation Changes in Krkonoše Mountains Based on UAS Data

Lucie Červená1, Jakub Lysák1, Markéta Potůčková1, Záboj Hrázský1,2, Stanislav Březina2, Michaela Vítková3, Jan Pergl3, Jan Čuda3, Natálie Kolombová3,4, Klára Kušková3,4, Josef Kutlvašr3,4, Irena Perglová3, Jiří Sádlo3, Vojtěch Vítek3, Petr Pyšek3,5, Lucie Kupková1

1Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic; 2The Krkonoše Mountains National Park Administration, Czech Republic; 3Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; 4Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic; 5Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic

 
1:00pm - 2:30pmLunch
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
2:30pm - 4:30pmW3 Forestry: Forest Disturbance Monitoring
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Janik Deutscher
Session Chair: Manuela Hirschmugl
 
ID: 165 / W3 Forestry: 1

Recent Dynamics of Forest Canopy Cover Loss in Germany

Frank Thonfeld1, Patrick Kacic1,2, Stefanie Holzwarth1, Marco Wegler1, Niklas Jaggy1,2, Kjirsten Coleman1, Ursula Gessner1, Claudia Kuenzer1,2

1German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2University of Wuerzburg, Germany



ID: 208 / W3 Forestry: 2

The German National Forest Damage Monitoring System: Validation process and accuracies of the annual Sentinel-2 disturbance product

Katja Oehmichen1, Julian Backa2, Janik Deutscher3, Philipp Eisnecker4, Niklas Langner1, Martin Puhm3, Eike Reinosch5, Marius Rüetschi6, Jens Wiesehahn7, Lars T. Waser6

1Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Germany; 2Public Enterprise Sachsenforst, Germany; 3Joanneum Research, Austria; 4Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Germany; 5Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Germany; 6Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, Switzerland; 7Northwest German Forest Research Institute, Germany



ID: 162 / W3 Forestry: 3

Detecting Bark Beetle-Induced Changes in Coniferous Alpine Forests Using Sentinel-2 Time Series and In-Situ Felling Data

Ana Potočnik Buhvald1, Krištof Oštir1, Mitja Skudnik2,3

1University of Ljubljana Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Slovenia; 2University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources; 3Slovenian Forestry Institute



ID: 202 / W3 Forestry: 4

Enabling Near Real-Time Forest Disturbance Detection on the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Jonas Viehweger

Joanneum Research, Austria



ID: 142 / W3 Forestry: 5

MoBiTools – Monitoring Biodiversity with remote sensing Tools

Selina Ganz1,2, Martin Denter1, Katarzyna Zielewska-Büttner3, Petra Adler1

1Dept. of Biometry and Informatics, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA); 2Chair of Sensor-based Geoinformatics (geosense), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; 3Dept. of Forest Nature Conservation and Biodiversity, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA)



ID: 196 / W3 Forestry: 6

Towards A Collaborative Framework: Integrating Remote Sensing Research With Forestry Practice

Lars T. Waser1, Nataliia Rehush1, Hannes Horneber2, Bienz Raffael3, Krzysztof Stereńczak4, Mirela Beloiu Schwenke5

1Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL; 2School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, HAFL, Switzerland; 3Forest department of Aargau, BVU, Switzerland; 4Forest Research Institute, IBL, Poland; 5Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Swizterland



ID: 199 / W3 Forestry: 7

Advancing the European Copernicus Forest Layers: Prototyping and New Developments Towards a Continuous and Harmonized Monitoring of Forests in Europe

Janik Deutscher1, Martin Puhm1, Andreas Wimmer1, Annemarie Bastrup-Birk2, Gunter Zeug3, Conrad Bielski3, Jakob Lobensteiner3, Linda Moser4, Andreas Langner4, Anna Grabatin-Homolka4, Fabian Berndt4, Tim Ng5, Koimé Kouacou6, Ludvig Forslund7

1Joanneum Research, Institute for Digital Technologies, Graz, Austria; 2University of Copenhagen Faculty of Science, Forests and Bioresources, Denmark; 3Riscognition GmbH, Germany; 4GAF AG, Munich, Germany; 5Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Remote Sensing Unit, Mol, Belgium; 6Beetle ForTech, Tulln, Austria; 7European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark

 
2:30pm - 4:30pmNature conservation: Multiscale remote sensing in nature conservation
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Markéta Potůčková
Session Chair: Lucie Červená
 
ID: 123 / Nature conservation: 1

From Microscale to Sentinel and Landsat Images – Peatland Vegetation Monitoring

Anna Jarocinska1, Sandra Słowińska2, Joanna Kaczorowska1,2, Arkadiusz Bartczak3, Adrian Kaszkiel2, Mariusz Lamentowicz4, Michał Słowiński2

1University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Poland; 2Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; 3Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Torun, Poland; 4Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Poland



ID: 126 / Nature conservation: 2

Applying Deep Learning Methods For The Classification Of Riparian Vegetation On The Scale Of The Elbe Estuary

Marcel Reinhardt, Edvinas Rommel, Maike Heuner, Björn Baschek

German Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany



ID: 156 / Nature conservation: 3

Land Restoration Effectiveness Assessed By Satellite-based Remote Sensing Technologies As A New Monitoring Approach

Ghadir Zbedat1,2,3, Anna Brook1,2,3

1Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing Laboratory; 2School of Environmental Science; 3University of Haifa, Israel



ID: 241 / Nature conservation: 4

Mapping Tree Alleys in Czech Republic by means of Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Sensor Imagery

Ales Létal1, Ionut Sandric2, Matej Kaspar1

1Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic; 2University of Bucharest, Romania



ID: 115 / Nature conservation: 5

SEADETECT: Multi-sensor Cetacean Collision Prevention in the Pelagos Area of the Mediterranean Sea

Anita Schilling1, Bob Rumes2, Simone Panigada3, Romain Jan4, Thomas Folegot5, Vincent Carrier6, Antoine Dumoulin7, David Van Hamme8, Gilda Marquis-Laisné9, Angélique Rouhan10, Olivier Langrand11

1ONERA / DOTA, University of Toulouse, France; 2Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecology, Marine Ecology and Management, Belgium; 3Tethys Research Institute, Italy; 4GREENOV ITES, France; 5Quiet-Oceans, France; 6Nexvision, France; 7Diades Marine, France; 8Interuniversity Microelectronics Center, Belgium; 9Sirehna, France; 10Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore, France; 11Naval Group, France



ID: 209 / Nature conservation: 6

Detecting Vegetation Impact Due to Construction Events, With Semantically Enriched Sentinel-2 Time-series

Luke McQuade, Rajeswari Parasa, Martin Sudmanns, Dirk Tiede

Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria



ID: 122 / Nature conservation: 7

Utility of Remote Sensing Data Useful for Identifying Non-forest Vegetation in Protected Areas

Anna Jarocinska1, Dominik Kopeć2,3, Marlena Kycko1

1University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Poland; 2University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Poland; 3MGGP Aero sp. z o.o., Poland



ID: 148 / Nature conservation: 8

Advancing the Monitoring of Traditional Meadow Orchards: Current Approaches and Future Directions

Paul Joseph1, Maike Petersen1, Alexander Siegmund1,2

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

 
4:30pm - 5:00pmCoffee Break
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
5:00pm - 6:00pmGS 1: General Session I.
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Markéta Potůčková
 
ID: 161 / GS 1: 1

Adapting Semi-Supervised Segmentation methods to Multimodal Remote Sensing Data

Itza Hernández-Sequeira1, Damián Ibañez1, Rubén Fernández-Beltrán2, Filiberto Pla1

1Institute of New Imaging Technologies, University Jaume I, 12071 Castellón de la Plana, Spain; 2Departement of Computer Science and Systems, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain



ID: 215 / GS 1: 2

Segment Anything Model with Lidar Based Images for Building Segmentation in Forest Areas

Emilia Hattula, Jere Raninen, Lingli Zhu

The National Land Survey of Finland, Finland



ID: 132 / GS 1: 3

Comparison Of Pansharpening And Hypersharpening Performances On Urban Scenes

Sacha Neiger1, Sophie Fabre1, Colin Thomas2, Xavier Briottet1

1ONERA, France; 2ADS, France



ID: 231 / GS 1: 4

Hybrid Approach To Atmospheric Correction For Thermal Airborne Remote Sensing Over Urban Areas

Daniel Kopkáně, Miroslav Pikl, Jan Novotný, Jan Hanuš, Lucie Homolová

Global Change Research Institute CAS, Czech Republic

 
5:00pm - 6:00pmGS 2: General Session II.
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Eva Matoušková
 
ID: 128 / GS 2: 1

How much Urban Green do Bavarian cities need to cool by 1 degree?

John Friesen1, Tobias Leichtle2, Hannes Taubenböck1,2

1Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; 2German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany



ID: 164 / GS 2: 2

Comparative Study of Urban Heat and its Vulnerability in Los Angeles and Atalanta, USA

Sunhui Sim

University of North Alabama, United States of America



ID: 113 / GS 2: 3

Radiometric Cross-Calibration of an Aerial Sensor with Satellite Top-of-Atmosphere Reflectance

Alexane Nghien, Manchun Lei, Mathieu Brédif

Univ Gustave Eiffel, ENSG, IGN, LASTIG, F-94160 Saint-Mandé, France, France



ID: 134 / GS 2: 4

Improving LUCAS Dataset Positional Representativeness for Machine Learning Land Cover Mapping

Tomáš Bouček1, Lukáš Brodský2, Martin Landa1, Onřej Pešek1, Lena Halounová1

1Department of Geomatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, 166 29, Czech Republic; 2Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague, Czech Republic

 
6:00pm - 9:00pmIcebreaker
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
Date: Tuesday, 27/May/2025
8:00am - 5:00pmRegistration
Location: Foyer - Ground Floor
9:00am - 9:30amKeynote 2: Hannes Taubenböck: Making poverty visible – The successes and failures of remote sensing and other geodata
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Stefanos Georganos
Session Chair: Monika Kuffer
9:35am - 11:00amW1 Global South: 8th EARSeL Workshop on the Global South I.
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Stefanos Georganos
Session Chair: Monika Kuffer
 
ID: 233 / W1 Global South: 1

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

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



ID: 146 / W1 Global South: 2

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 Djeutchouang1,2, Hephzibah A Adenji1, Bernard O Boateng1, Eniola A Bamgboye1, Joshua Akinyemi3,4,5, Akintayo O Ogunwale2,6, IkeOluwapo Ajayi2,3, Ifeoma D Ozodiegwu1

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



ID: 223 / W1 Global South: 3

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

Sai Ganesh Veeravalli1,2, Stefanos Georganos1, John Friesen3, Jan Haas1

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



ID: 224 / W1 Global South: 4

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

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

 
9:35am - 11:00amEducation & Training: EO Education & Training
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Alexander Siegmund
Session Chair: Premysl Stych
 
ID: 143 / Education & Training: 1

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 Siegmund1,2

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



ID: 249 / Education & Training: 2

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



ID: 238 / Education & Training: 3

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

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



ID: 190 / Education & Training: 4

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

Stanislav Dovgyi1, Svitlana Babiichuk2, Olha Tomchenko3,5, Lidiia Davybida4,5, Mariia Biletska5

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

 
11:00am - 11:30amCoffee Break
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
11:30am - 1:00pmW2 Global South: 8th EARSeL Workshop on the Global South II
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Stefanos Georganos
Session Chair: Monika Kuffer
 
ID: 204 / W2 Global South: 1

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

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



ID: 185 / W2 Global South: 2

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

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



ID: 197 / W2 Global South: 3

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

Jiong Wang1, Angela Abascal2, Stefanos Georganos3, Sabine Vanhuysses4

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



ID: 182 / W2 Global South: 4

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

E. Sophia Klaußner1, Gary Watmough2, Stefan Lang1

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



ID: 187 / W2 Global South: 5

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

Longfei Wang1,2, Tengfei Long1,2, Elhadi Adam3

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

 
11:30am - 1:00pmSpectroscopy: Recent Developments in Field-/Lab-, Air- and Spaceborne Spectroscopy
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Martin Ulrich Richard Bachmann
Session Chair: Mathias Kneubühler
 
ID: 205 / Spectroscopy: 1

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

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



ID: 183 / Spectroscopy: 2

Improving Oil Spill Response: UAV VNIR-SWIR Hyperspectral Monitoring

Carlos Roberto Souza Filho

University of Campinas, Brazil



ID: 114 / Spectroscopy: 3

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



ID: 261 / Spectroscopy: 4

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



ID: 195 / Spectroscopy: 5

High-resolution Hyperspectral Aerial Imagery For Forest Health Monitoring

Hafiz Ali Imran, Daniela Poli, Giada Ceola

AVT Airborne Sensing Italia srl, Italy

 
1:00pm - 2:30pmLunch
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
1:30pm - 2:30pmEARSeL Council Meeting (members only)
Location: Room 201 (Historical Cabinet)
2:30pm - 4:00pmW3 Global South: 8th EARSeL Workshop on the Global South III.
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Stefanos Georganos
Session Chair: Monika Kuffer
 
ID: 232 / W3 Global South: 1

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

Nicolas J. Kraff1, Angela Abascal2, John Friesen3, Monika Kuffer4, Hannes Taubenböck1,3

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



ID: 194 / W3 Global South: 2

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

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



ID: 252 / W3 Global South: 3

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

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

 
2:30pm - 4:00pmGS 3: General Session III.
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Julien Parelle
Session Chair: Elias Symeonakis
 
ID: 160 / GS 3: 1

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

Christina Karakizi1,2, Olympia Gounari2, Eleni Sofikiti2, Georgios Begkos2, Konstantinos Karantzalos2, Elias Symeonakis1

1Manchester Metropolitan University; 2National Technical University of Athens



ID: 119 / GS 3: 2

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

Solofoniaina Andriamihajason1,2, Julien Parelle2, Sophie Fabre1

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



ID: 217 / GS 3: 3

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

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



ID: 214 / GS 3: 4

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

 
4:05pm - 4:30pmS1 Poster Session: Poster Presentations I (UAS, Nature conservation, Spectroscopy, Drylands, Soil contamination and General session)
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Lucie Červená
 
ID: 150 / S1 Poster Session: 1

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



ID: 177 / S1 Poster Session: 2

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

Matěj Kašpar, Aleš Létal

Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic



ID: 180 / S1 Poster Session: 3

Enhancing UAV Technology for Sustainable Environmental Monitoring through ACCELERATE research project

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

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



ID: 229 / S1 Poster Session: 4

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

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

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



ID: 201 / S1 Poster Session: 5

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

Antonín Kusbach1,2, Krejza Jan1,2, Lucie Homolová1

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



ID: 203 / S1 Poster Session: 6

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

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

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



ID: 210 / S1 Poster Session: 7

Multi-Scale Monitoring Of Peatland Restoration (MooRe)

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

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



ID: 216 / S1 Poster Session: 8

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

Nikolina Mileva

European Space Agency, Italy



ID: 173 / S1 Poster Session: 9

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

Uwe Knauer, Marion Pause, Bastian Sander

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany



ID: 206 / S1 Poster Session: 10

Recent upgrades of Flying Laboratory of Imaging Systems

Jan Hanuš1, Tomáš Hanousek1,2, Tomáš Fabiánek1, Lukáš Fajmon1, Daniel Kopkáně1

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



ID: 234 / S1 Poster Session: 11

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

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

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



ID: 106 / S1 Poster Session: 12

Applying the OPTRAM Soil Moisture Model to Wetlands

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

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



ID: 124 / S1 Poster Session: 13

EnMAP-derived biocrusts indices

Arnon Karnieli1, Natalya Panov2, Micha Siver3

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



ID: 110 / S1 Poster Session: 14

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



ID: 254 / S1 Poster Session: 15

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

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



ID: 108 / S1 Poster Session: 16

Advancing Hyperspectral Image Classification with Deep Features Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms

Mohammed Bilel Amri1,2, Dounia Yedjour3, Mohammed El Amin Larabi4, Faouzi Berrichi1

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

 
4:30pm - 6:00pmS1: Coffee Break + Poster Exhibition I. (UAS, Nature conservation, Spectroscopy, Drylands, Soil contamination and General session)
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
Date: Wednesday, 28/May/2025
8:00am - 5:00pmRegistration
Location: Foyer - Ground Floor
9:00am - 9:30amKeynote 3: Lukáš Brodský: Advancing Remote Sensing with Deep Learning: Challenges, Innovations, and Future Directions
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Lena Halounova
Session Chair: Eva Matoušková
9:35am - 11:00amGeology: Geological Applications
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos
Session Chair: Aggeliki S. Kyriou
 
ID: 222 / Geology: 1

A ten-year research in landslides of Western Greece using UAVs.

Aggeliki S. Kyriou, Ioannis Koukouvelas, Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos

University of Patras, Greece



ID: 230 / Geology: 2

Satellite Imagery for Bauxite Tailing Mapping in the Frame of the M4mining Project

Evlampia Kouzeli1, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos1, Olga Sykioti2, Saeid Asadzadeh3, Friederike Koerting4, Daniel Schläpfer5

1University of Patras; 2National Observatory of Athens; 3GFZ; 4Norsk Elektro Optikk AS; 5ReSe Applications LLC



ID: 242 / Geology: 3

Devastating Natural Hazard Observation With The Combination Of Optical And Microwave Remote Sensing Datasets Valencia 2025 Flood

Hasan Bilgehan Makineci

konya technical university, Turkiye

 
9:35am - 11:00amGS 4: General session IV.
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Lucie Kupková
 
ID: 255 / GS 4: 1

Sentinel-2 Time Series And Machine Learning Models for Fuel Type Classification in Mediterranean regions

Forough Rajabi1, Debora Voltolina2, Michele Salis3, Bachisio Arca3, Giovanna Venuti1, Daniela Stroppiana4

1Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Italy; 2Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria (CNR-IGAG), Italy; 3Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto Per La Bioeconomia (CNR-IBE), Italy; 4Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente (CNR-IREA), Italy



ID: 211 / GS 4: 2

Dimension Expansion-based Spatiotemporal Land Cover Change Detection: A Study Case Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Time Series

Meng Lu

University of Bayreuth, Germany



ID: 145 / GS 4: 3

Reaching New Heights: How to Get High-quality 3D Vegetation Structure Data

Vitezslav Moudry

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic



ID: 138 / GS 4: 4

Implementation of Two-Step Structural Damage Analysis Based on Foundation Models : Case Study for Small Size Bridge in South Korea

Hyunsoo Park, Dahye Jang, Eui-ik Jeon

Innopam co., ltd., Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

 
11:00am - 11:30amCoffee Break
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
11:30am - 11:45amSponsor Talk: Platinum Sponsor Presentation: Headwall (headwallphotonics.com)
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
11:45am - 1:15pmYoung Scientist Awards: Session includes a pre-selection of oral presentations by YSc authors who have applied for the award.
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Jean-Christophe Schyns
Session Chair: Eva Matoušková
 
ID: 243 / Young Scientist Awards: 1

Deciphering Exterior: Building Energy Efficiency Prediction with Emerging Urban Big Data

Maoran Sun1, Ce Hou2, Qiaosi Li3, Fan Zhang4, Ronita Bardhan1, Qunshan Zhao3

1Sustainable Design Group, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; 3Urban Big Data Centre, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 4Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China



ID: 167 / Young Scientist Awards: 2

Mapping Agricultural Landscape Heterogeneity over Six Decades: Automatic Field Segmentation Using Historic and Modern Remote Sensing Data

Eric Kosczor1, Matthias Forkel1, Anna Cord2

1TUD Dresden University of Technology, Junior Professorship in Environmental Remote Sensing, Dresden, Germany; 2University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Bonn, Germany



ID: 259 / Young Scientist Awards: 3

Mapping Slums in Kenya by a Combination of Building Footprint Metrics and Optical Imagery

Hang Yang1, Eunice Jimmy2, Jasper van Vliet1

1Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Italy



ID: 120 / Young Scientist Awards: 4

The Role Of Land Use Intensity On Vegetation Recovery Gradients After Land Abandonment In The Semiarid SE Alentejo, Portugal

Henrique Morgado Cerqueira1, Maria José Roxo1, Adolfo Calvo-Cases2

1CICS.NOVA - Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal; 2Inter-University Institute for Local Development, Unversitat de València, Spain



ID: 139 / Young Scientist Awards: 5

How The Variability Of Tree Predictors And Biomass Changes With The Different Complexity Of Virtual 3D Scenes

Tomáš Hanousek1,2, Jan Novotný1, Barbora Navrátilová1, Růžena Janoutová1

1Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences; 2Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University



ID: 200 / Young Scientist Awards: 6

Towards an Indicator-Based Morphological Informality Model for Sub-Saharan Africa Using Open Building Footprint Data

Sebastian Hafner1, Qunshan Zhao1, Angela Abascal2, Manuella Comerio de Paulo1, Grant Tregonning1, Alexandra Middleton3, Adenike Shonowo1, Monika Kuffer4, Ryan Engstrom5, Dana R. Thomson6, Francis C. Onyambu7, Caroline Kabaria7, Peter Elias8, Oluwatoyin Odulana8, Bunmi Alugbin8, Kehinde Baruwa8, João Porto de Albuquerque1

1Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2Engineer Department, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; 3University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom; 4Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enchede Netherlands; 5Department of Geography & Environment, George Washinton University, Washington, D.C., United States; 6Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN), Columbia University, New York, United States; 7African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya; 8University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

 
1:15pm - 3:30pmLunch
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
2:30pm - 3:30pmEARSeL General Assembly (members only)
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
3:30pm - 4:00pmS2 Poster session: Poster Presentations II (Geology, Cultural Heritage, Fires, EO-AI, General session and Agriculture workshop)
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Lena Halounova
 
ID: 257 / S2 Poster session: 1

The Pros and Cons of Long Wave Infrared Hyperspectral and Multispectral Imaging for the Identification of Mineral Compounds

Antoine Dumont, Stephane Boubanga, Fabien Dupont, Jean-Philippe Gagnon

Telops, Canada



ID: 250 / S2 Poster session: 2

Use Of The Latest Photogrammetric Techniques In The Inventory of Historical Monuments on the example of Krzeszowice Palace

Slawomir Mikrut1, Katarzyna Smoter2

1AGH University of Krakow, Poland; 2AGH University of Krakow, Poland



ID: 144 / S2 Poster session: 3

Wildfire Suppression Difficulty Assessment: Example from the Czech Republic

Jan Novotný1, Markéta Poděbradská1,2, Lucie Kudláčková1,2, Jana Beranová3, Miroslav Trnka1,2

1Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; 2Institute of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic; 3IFER – Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research, Ltd., Jílové u Prahy, Czech Republic



ID: 155 / S2 Poster session: 4

The Use of Remote Sensing forWildfire Prevention in the High Fens

Maxime Foucart1,2, Yasmina Loozen1, Benjamin Palmaerts1, Eric Hallot1, Eric Lambin2

1ISSeP, Belgium; 2Earth and Life Institute (ELI), UCLouvain Faculty of Sciences, Belgium



ID: 176 / S2 Poster session: 5

Quantifying The Effect Of Bush Encroachment On Fuels And Fire Emissions In Southern Africa With A Satellite-based Data-model Fusion Approach

Daniel Kinalczyk, Matthias Forkel

TUD Dresden University of Technology, Junior Professorship in Environmental Remote Sensing, Dresden, Germany



ID: 192 / S2 Poster session: 6

Analysis of Global Nighttime Active Fires

Daniela Stroppiana1, Zahra Amini2, Pietro Alessandro Brivio1

1Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente (CNR-IREA), Italy; 2Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Italy



ID: 158 / S2 Poster session: 7

Evaluating Flood Damages using Land Cover Changes Detection

Paulina Raeva, Silviya Katsarska-Filipova, Dobromir Filipov

UACEG, Faculty of Geodesy, Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Spatial Data Processing



ID: 181 / S2 Poster session: 8

Advancing Permafrost Monitoring in the Arctic through Earth Observation Technologies: Insights from EO-PERSIST project

George P. Petropoulos1, Spyridon E. Detsikas1, Georgios Nektarios Tselos1, Antonis Litke2, Εleni Αchmakidou3, Beata Kroszka4, Patryk Grzybowski4

1Harokopio University of Athens, Greece, Greece; 2INNOV-ΑCTS LTD, Nicosia, Cyprus; 3ALTUS LSA, Chania, Athens; 4CloudFerro SA, Warszawa, Poland



ID: 245 / S2 Poster session: 9

Exploration of Large Language Model Assisted Boulder Detection From Lidar Data

Lingli Zhu, Emilia Hattula, Jere Raninen

National Land Survey of Finland, Finland



ID: 169 / S2 Poster session: 10

AutoWindLoc: Precise Localization of Wind Turbines in High-Resolution Orthophotos for Enhanced Registers

Justus Middendorf, André Peter Kelm, Simone Frintrop

University of Hamburg, Germany



ID: 130 / S2 Poster session: 11

Leveraging EO-Based Agricultural Monitoring for Predictive Wildlife Collision Risk Mapping in Austria

Petra Miletich1, Ursula Schmitt1, Mathias Schardt1, Martin Forstner2, Michael Aleksa3, Andreas Hula3

1JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria; 2WWN - Wildökologie, Waldwirtschaft, Naturraum, Planungsbüro; 3AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology



ID: 227 / S2 Poster session: 12

Preliminary Analysis of Agricultural Drought in Italy Using PRISMA Satellite Data Across Diverse Crops

Filippo Bocchino1, Giulia Graldi1, Alireza Hamoudzadeh1, Lorenza Ranaldi1, Valeria Belloni1, Roberta Ravanelli2, Mattia Crespi1,3, Deodato Tapete4, Alessandro Ursi4, Maria Virelli4, Patrizia Sacco4, Antonio Denaro5, Laura Rosatelli5, Camillo Zaccarini5

1DICEA, Geodesy and Geomatics Division, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; 2Geomatics Unit, Department of Geography, University of Liège, Belgium; 3Sapienza School for Advanced Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 4Italian Space Agency (ASI); 5Risk Management Department, Institute of Services for Agricultural and Food Market (ISMEA)



ID: 248 / S2 Poster session: 13

Mobile Mapping with Specim IQ Hyperspectral Camera as a Means for Effective Wildflower Strip Analysis in Agricultural Landscape of Central Germany

Karlmarx Thangamani, Georg Rieland, Niels Hellwig, Christina Fischer, Uwe Knauer

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany



ID: 163 / S2 Poster session: 14

Large Scale Mowing Event Detection on Dense Time Series Data Using Deep Learning Methods and Knowledge Distillation

Tilemachos Moumouris, Vasileios Tsironis, Athina Psalta, Konstantinos Karantzalos

National Technical University of Athens, Greece



ID: 207 / S2 Poster session: 15

Mapping Invasive Veratrum album from UAV Imagery: Neural Network Training for Deep Learning Novices with no Intention of Scripting, Using a Consumer-grade Laptop

Alex Šrollerů1, Markéta Potůčková1, Lucie Červená1, Lucie Kupková1, Jakub Lysák1, Záboj Hrázský1, Michaela Vítková2, Jan Pergl2, Jan Čuda2, Natálie Kolombová2,3, Klára Kušková2,3, Josef Kutlvašr2,3, Irena Perglová2, Jiří Sádlo2, Vojtěch Vítek2, Petr Pyšek2,4

1Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; 2Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic; 3Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; 4Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

 
4:00pm - 5:30pmS2: Coffee Break + Poster Exhibition II. (Geology, Cultural Heritage, Fires, EO-AI, General session and Agriculture workshop)
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
7:00pm - 11:00pmSymposium dinner
Klasterni Pivovar Strahov (Strahov Monastery Brewery) Strahovské nádvoří 301, 118 00 Prague 1
Date: Thursday, 29/May/2025
8:00am - 10:00amRegistration
Location: Foyer - Ground Floor
9:00am - 9:30amKeynote 4: Filippo Sarvia: Challenges and recommendations for leveraging remote sensing for food security
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Enrico Borgogno-Mondino
Session Chair: Francesco Pirotti
9:35am - 11:00amW1 Agriculture: 3rd EARSeL Workshop on Agriculture I.
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Francesco Pirotti
Session Chair: Enrico Borgogno-Mondino
 
ID: 228 / W1 Agriculture: 1

Machine Learning-Based Assessment of Agricultural Flood Damage with Sentinel-2 Data: The 2023 Emilia-Romagna Floods

Filippo Bocchino1, Valeria Belloni1, Roberta Ravanelli2, Roderik Lindenbergh3

1DICEA, Geodesy and Geomatics Division, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; 2Geomatics Unit, Department of Geography, University of Liège, Belgium; 3Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands



ID: 246 / W1 Agriculture: 2

Integrating Multimodal Remote Sensing And Artificial Intelligence To Distinguish Combined Nitrogen And Irrigation Treatments In Sesame

Maitreya Mohan Sahoo1, Rom Tarshish1, Yaniv Tubul1, Idan Sabag1, Yaron Gadri1, Gota Morota2, Zvi Peleg1, Victor Alchanatis3, Ittai Herrmann1

1The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel; 2School of Animal Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA; 3Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Research Organization – Volcani Institute, Rishon LeZion 7505101, Israel



ID: 141 / W1 Agriculture: 3

Spectral Response Of Pre-planting Tillage Practices From PlanetScope And Field Spectroscopy Measurements

Vidya Nahdhiyatul Fikriyah1,2, Roshanak Darvishzadeh1, Stephan M Haefele3, Andrew Nelson1

1Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, the Netherlands; 2Faculty of Geography, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Indonesia; 3Sustainable Soils and Crops, Rothamsted Research, UK



ID: 184 / W1 Agriculture: 4

Accuracy Assessment of MOD16A2 Evapotranspiration Estimates in Piemonte (NW Italy): an Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Biases

Edoardo Ronco1, Enrico Borgogno-Mondino2

1University of Turin, Italy; 2University of Turin, Italy and Italian Society of Remote Sensing (AIT)



ID: 103 / W1 Agriculture: 5

Standard to Validate Innovations in Agricultural Testing

Penny Nagel1, Warren Zamudio1, SiriJodha Khalsa2, Katsutoshi Mizuta PhD3

1Soilytics, United States of America; 2University of Colorado; 3University of Kentucky



ID: 174 / W1 Agriculture: 6

Evaluating Different Methods For The Estimation Of Bare Soil Surface Reflectance Using Multi-spectral Satellite Image Time Series

Eleni Sofikiti, Vasileios Tsironis, Konstantinos Karantzalos

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

 
9:35am - 11:00amCultural heritage: Earth Observation for Cultural and Natural Heritage
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Mario Hernandez
Session Chair: Jolanda Patruno
 
ID: 133 / Cultural heritage: 1

State of the Art of Earth Observation in support of Heritage as per the ESA-EARSeL Workshop

Mario Hernandez1, Jolanda Patruno2, Gordon Campbell2, Michela Corvino2

1International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE); 2European Space Agency (ESA)



ID: 157 / Cultural heritage: 2

Spectral separability in Sentinel-2 data for archaeological prospection. Case studies from Telesia and Labro, Italy

Antonio Corbo1, Deodato Tapete2, Alessandro Jaia3

1Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; 2Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, Italy; 3Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy



ID: 186 / Cultural heritage: 3

Addressing Cultural Heritage Challenges: Applications Of Open-Access Remote Sensing Datasets For Monitoring Threats

Kyriakos Michaelides1, Stylianos Hadjipetrou1, Athos Agapiou1, Apostolos Sarris2, Victor Klinkenberg2, Miltiadis Polidorou2

1Dept. of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Cyprus University of Technology, Saripolou 2-8, 3036 Limassol, Cyprus; 2Digital Humanities GeoInformatics Lab, Sylvia Ioannou Chair on Digital Humanities, Archaeological Research Unit, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, Gladstone 12, 1095 Nicosia, Cyprus

 
11:00am - 11:30amCoffee Break
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
11:30am - 1:00pmW2 Agriculture: 3rd EARSeL Workshop on Agriculture II.
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Session Chair: Francesco Pirotti
Session Chair: Enrico Borgogno-Mondino
 
ID: 105 / W2 Agriculture: 1

Linking Phenological Development at Landscape And Field Level By Means Of Sentinel-1 Time Series

Johannes Markus Löw1, Steven Hill2, Christoph Friedrich2, Insa Otte2, Tobias Ullmann2, Christopher Conrad1

1Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; 2Earth Observation Research Cluster, University of Würzburg



ID: 193 / W2 Agriculture: 2

Leveraging Genomic and UAV-Borne Phenotyping Promote Climate Change Resilience Wheat Improvement

Roy Sadeh1, Victor Alchantis2, Roi Ben david3, Zvi Peleg1, Ittai Herrmann1

1The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Agricultural Research Organization - Volcani Institute, Rishon LeZion, Israel; 3Institute of Plant Sciences, Agriculture Research Organization - Volcani Institute, Rishon LeZion, Israel



ID: 260 / W2 Agriculture: 3

Multi-Year Multi-Crop Correlation Analysis in Brasov Area

Ioana Plajer1, Alexandra Baicoianu1, Matei Debu1, Maria Stefan2, Mihai Ivanovici1, Corneliu Florea1,3, Adrian Ghinea2, Luciana Majercsik1

1Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania; 2National Institute of Research and Development for Potato and Sugar Beet, Brasov, Romania; 3National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania



ID: 147 / W2 Agriculture: 4

Anomaly Detection In Permanent Grasslands For CAP Compliance Monitoring Using Sentinel-2

Eric Kosczor1, Christine Wessollek1, Daniel Kinalczyk1, Pierre Karrasch2, Nora Egli2, Matthias Forkel1

1TUD Dresden University of Technology, Junior Professorship in Environmental Remote Sensing, Dresden, Germany; 2Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG), Dresden, Germany



ID: 111 / W2 Agriculture: 5

Monitoring Soybeans and Ozone Relationship with TROPOMI Solar-Induced Fluorescence

Luka Mamic1,4, Mj Riches2, Delphine K. Farmer2, Rose K. Rossell2, Francesco Pirotti3,4

1Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, Italy; 2Colorado State University, Department of Chemistry, United States of America; 3University of Padua, Department of Land and Agroforestry Systems (TESAF), Italy; 4University of Padua, Interdepartmental Research Centre in Geomatics (CIRGEO), Italy

 
11:30am - 1:00pmFires + EO-AI for HER: Joint session: Remote sensing of wildfires: from data to products and EO-AI for Humanitarian Emergency Response: from risk prediction to recovery operations
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Getachew Workineh Gella
Session Chair: Daniela Stroppiana
 
ID: 159 / Fires + EO-AI for HER: 1

Generative Models for Training Data Augmentation for Building Change Detection from Mono-temporal Images

Getachew Workineh Gella, Stefan Lang

Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria



ID: 170 / Fires + EO-AI for HER: 2

SenForFlood: A New Global Dataset for Flooded Area Detection

Bruno Menini Matosak, Getachew Workineh Gella, Stefan Lang

Christian Doppler Laboratory for geospatial and EO-based humanitarian technologies, Department of Geoinformatics, Paris Lodron Uniersity of Salzburg, Austria



ID: 104 / Fires + EO-AI for HER: 3

A Novel Approach in Oil Spill Detection via Satellite Remote Sensing, Data Fusion and Deep Learning

Tom Avikasis Cohen1, Anna Brook1, Dror Angel2

1School of Environmental Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel; 2Charney School of Marine Science, University of Haifa, Israel



ID: 127 / Fires + EO-AI for HER: 4

Improved Methodology for Evaluating GEO Fire Algorithms Using a Buffer Window Around LEO Fire Detection Sites

Asaf Vanunu1, Rodney Fonseca2, Meirav Galun3, Boaz Nadler3, Arnon Karnieli1

1Ben Gurion University, Israel; 2Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; 3Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel



ID: 116 / Fires + EO-AI for HER: 5

From Point Clouds to Fuel Maps: Modeling Surface Fuels from 3D Terrestrial Lidar Data

Miriam Herrmann1, Carlos Cabo2,3, Fabian Ewald Fassnacht1

1Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; 2Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University, United Kingdom; 3Department of Mining Exploitation and Prospecting, University of Oviedo, Spain

 
1:05pm - 1:30pmClosing ceremony
Location: Room 200
Session Chair: Eva Matoušková
Jean-Christophe Schyns, EARSeL President
George P. Petropoulos, local organiser of 45th EARSeL Symposium 2026
Eva Matoušková, CTU Prague, local organiser
1:30pm - 3:00pmLunch
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
3:00pm - 6:00pmGuided Tour