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

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



Scaling Individual Tree Crown Segmentation using Large Vision Models

Jacopo Lungo Vaschetti, Edoardo Arnaudo, Claudio Rossi

LINKS Foundation, Italy



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

Javier Francisco Gonzalez, Adelheid Wallner

LWF, Germany



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

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



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

Janik Deutscher1, Andreas Wimmer1, Martin Puhm1, Klaus Haslinger2

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

UAS S1
Location: Room 200
Chair: Lammert Kooistra
Chair: Anna Zmarz
 

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

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

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



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

Małgorzata Korczak-Abshire1, Anna Zmarz2

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



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

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



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
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11:30am
WS Forestry: Coffee Break + Poster Exhibition (starting 10:45)
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Chair: Janik Deutscher
Chair: Manuela Hirschmugl
 

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

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



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

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

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



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



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

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



FUTUREFOR - Copernicus Applications for Next-Generation Forest Monitoring

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

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

Coffee Break
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
11:30am
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1:00pm
W2 Forestry: 3D Forest Modelling
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Chair: Janik Deutscher
Chair: Manuela Hirschmugl
 

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

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



Digital Forest Inventory Using Fused UAV and PLS Point Cloud Data

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

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



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

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



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

Florian Josef Lippl1, Manuela Hirschmugl1,2

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



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

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

UAS S2
Location: Room 200
Chair: Lammert Kooistra
Chair: Anna Zmarz
 

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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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

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

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

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



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

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



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

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



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

Jonas Viehweger

Joanneum Research, Austria



MoBiTools – Monitoring Biodiversity with remote sensing Tools

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

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



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

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



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

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

Nature conservation: Multiscale remote sensing in nature conservation
Location: Room 200
Chair: Markéta Potůčková
Chair: Lucie Červená
 

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

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



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



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

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

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



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

Ales Létal1, Ionut Sandric2, Matej Kaspar1

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



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

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



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



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

Anna Jarocinska1, Dominik Kopeć2,3, Marlena Kycko1

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



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

Paul Joseph1, Maike Petersen1, Alexander Siegmund1,2

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

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

Adapting Semi-Supervised Segmentation methods to Multimodal Remote Sensing Data

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

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



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



Comparison Of Pansharpening And Hypersharpening Performances On Urban Scenes

Sacha Neiger1, Sophie Fabre1, Colin Thomas2, Xavier Briottet1

1: ONERA, France; 2: ADS, France



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

GS 2: General Session II.
Location: Room 200
Chair: Eva Matoušková
 

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

John Friesen1, Tobias Leichtle2, Hannes Taubenböck1,2

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



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

Sunhui Sim

University of North Alabama, United States of America



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



Improving LUCAS Dataset Positional Representativeness for Machine Learning Land Cover Mapping

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

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

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

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 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

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 Veeravalli1,2, 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

Education & Training: EO Education & Training
Location: Room 200
Chair: Alexander Siegmund
Chair: Premysl Stych
 

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

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 Tomchenko3,5, Lidiia Davybida4,5, 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

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

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 Wang1,2, Tengfei Long1,2, 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

Spectroscopy: Recent Developments in Field-/Lab-, Air- and Spaceborne Spectroscopy
Location: Room 200
Chair: Martin Ulrich Richard Bachmann
Chair: Mathias Kneubühler
 

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

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

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

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

GS 3: General Session III.
Location: Room 200
Chair: Julien Parelle
Chair: Elias Symeonakis
 

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

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 Andriamihajason1,2, 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

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

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 Kusbach1,2, Krejza Jan1,2, 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 Hanousek1,2, 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 Amri1,2, 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

4:30pm
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6:00pm
S1: 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
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5:00pm
Registration
Location: Foyer - Ground Floor
9:00am
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9:30am
Keynote 3: Lukáš Brodský: Advancing Remote Sensing with Deep Learning: Challenges, Innovations, and Future Directions
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Chair: Lena Halounova
Chair: Eva Matoušková
9:35am
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11:00am
Geology: Geological Applications
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Chair: Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos
Chair: Aggeliki S. Kyriou
 

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

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

University of Patras, Greece



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

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



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

Hasan Bilgehan Makineci

konya technical university, Turkiye

GS 4: General session IV.
Location: Room 200
Chair: Lucie Kupková
 

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

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



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

Meng Lu

University of Bayreuth, Germany



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

Vitezslav Moudry

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic



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

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

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

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



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

Eric Kosczor1, Matthias Forkel1, Anna Cord2

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



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

Hang Yang1, Eunice Jimmy2, Jasper van Vliet1

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



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

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



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

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



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

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

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

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



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

Slawomir Mikrut1, Katarzyna Smoter2

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



Wildfire Suppression Difficulty Assessment: Example from the Czech Republic

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

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



The Use of Remote Sensing forWildfire Prevention in the High Fens

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

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



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



Analysis of Global Nighttime Active Fires

Daniela Stroppiana1, Zahra Amini2, Pietro Alessandro Brivio1

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



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



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

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



Exploration of Large Language Model Assisted Boulder Detection From Lidar Data

Lingli Zhu, Emilia Hattula, Jere Raninen

National Land Survey of Finland, Finland



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

Justus Middendorf, André Peter Kelm, Simone Frintrop

University of Hamburg, Germany



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

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



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

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



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



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



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

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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
S2: Coffee Break + Poster Exhibition II. (Geology, Cultural Heritage, Fires, EO-AI, General session and Agriculture workshop)
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
7:00pm
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11:00pm
Symposium dinner
Klasterni Pivovar Strahov (Strahov Monastery Brewery) Strahovské nádvoří 301, 118 00 Prague 1
Date: Thursday, 29/May/2025
8:00am
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10:00am
Registration
Location: Foyer - Ground Floor
9:00am
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9:30am
Keynote 4: Filippo Sarvia: Challenges and recommendations for leveraging remote sensing for food security
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Chair: Enrico Borgogno-Mondino
Chair: Francesco Pirotti
9:35am
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11:00am
W1 Agriculture: 3rd EARSeL Workshop on Agriculture I.
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Chair: Francesco Pirotti
Chair: Enrico Borgogno-Mondino
 

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

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



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

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



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

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

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



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

Edoardo Ronco1, Enrico Borgogno-Mondino2

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



Standard to Validate Innovations in Agricultural Testing

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

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



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

Cultural heritage: Earth Observation for Cultural and Natural Heritage
Location: Room 200
Chair: Mario Hernandez
Chair: Jolanda Patruno
 

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

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



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

Antonio Corbo1, Deodato Tapete2, Alessandro Jaia3

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



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

1: Dept. of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Cyprus University of Technology, Saripolou 2-8, 3036 Limassol, Cyprus; 2: Digital 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
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11:30am
Coffee Break
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
11:30am
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1:00pm
W2 Agriculture: 3rd EARSeL Workshop on Agriculture II.
Location: Room 131 (Aula)
Chair: Francesco Pirotti
Chair: Enrico Borgogno-Mondino
 

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

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



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

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

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



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

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



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

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

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



Monitoring Soybeans and Ozone Relationship with TROPOMI Solar-Induced Fluorescence

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

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

Fires + 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
Chair: Getachew Workineh Gella
Chair: Daniela Stroppiana
 

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



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



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

Tom Avikasis Cohen1, Anna Brook1, Dror Angel2

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



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

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



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

Miriam Herrmann1, Carlos Cabo2,3, Fabian Ewald Fassnacht1

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

1:05pm
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1:30pm
Closing ceremony
Location: Room 200
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
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3:00pm
Lunch
Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor
3:00pm
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6:00pm
Guided Tour

 
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