Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Monday, 26/May/2025 | ||
8:00am - 5:00pm |
Registration Location: Foyer - Ground Floor |
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9:00am - 9:15am |
Opening ceremony Location: Room 131 (Aula) Chair: Eva Matoušková Eva Matoušková, CTU Prague, local organiser Jean-Christophe Schyns, EARSeL President |
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9:15am - 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 |
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9:50am - 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) Spacebel sa., Earth Observation Applications, Angleur, Belgium Scaling Individual Tree Crown Segmentation using Large Vision Models LINKS Foundation, Italy Tree Crown Damage Detection In Aerial Imagery Using Robust Deep Learning Models LWF, Germany TreeAI: a Global Database for Tree Species Annotations and High-resolution Aerial Imagery 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 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 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 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 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.) Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Carthography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic |
11:00am - 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 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 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 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. 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 1: Riscognition GmbH, Germany; 2: University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
Coffee Break Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
11:30am - 1:00pm |
W2 Forestry: 3D Forest Modelling Location: Room 131 (Aula) Chair: Janik Deutscher Chair: Manuela Hirschmugl Towards Integrating Spectral And Physiological Forest Modelling 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 - 2:30pm |
Lunch Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
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2:30pm - 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 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 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 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 Joanneum Research, Austria MoBiTools – Monitoring Biodiversity with remote sensing Tools 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 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 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 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 German Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany Land Restoration Effectiveness Assessed By Satellite-based Remote Sensing Technologies As A New Monitoring Approach 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 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 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 Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria Utility of Remote Sensing Data Useful for Identifying Non-forest Vegetation in Protected Areas 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 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 - 5:00pm |
Coffee Break Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
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5:00pm - 6:00pm |
GS 1: General Session I. Location: Room 131 (Aula) Chair: Markéta Potůčková Adapting Semi-Supervised Segmentation methods to Multimodal Remote Sensing Data 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 The National Land Survey of Finland, Finland Comparison Of Pansharpening And Hypersharpening Performances On Urban Scenes 1: ONERA, France; 2: ADS, France Hybrid Approach To Atmospheric Correction For Thermal Airborne Remote Sensing Over Urban Areas 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? 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 University of North Alabama, United States of America Radiometric Cross-Calibration of an Aerial Sensor with Satellite Top-of-Atmosphere Reflectance Univ Gustave Eiffel, ENSG, IGN, LASTIG, F-94160 Saint-Mandé, France, France Improving LUCAS Dataset Positional Representativeness for Machine Learning Land Cover Mapping 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 - 9:00pm |
Icebreaker Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
Date: Tuesday, 27/May/2025 | ||
8:00am - 5:00pm |
Registration Location: Foyer - Ground Floor |
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9:00am - 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 |
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9:35am - 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 - 11:30am |
Coffee Break Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
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11:30am - 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, France Reflectance Spectroscopy as a Tool for Identification of Historic Stone Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic High-resolution Hyperspectral Aerial Imagery For Forest Health Monitoring AVT Airborne Sensing Italia srl, Italy |
1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
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1:30pm - 2:30pm |
EARSeL Council Meeting (members only) Location: Room 201 (Historical Cabinet) |
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2:30pm - 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 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 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 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 1: Manchester Metropolitan University; 2: National Technical University of Athens Estimation Of Foliar Trace Elements From Spectroscopy In Poplar Within A Context Of Phytomanagement 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 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 Faculty of Geography, Univerity of Bucharest, Romania |
4:05pm - 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 Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic Streamlining Urban Tree Data Collection: A Case Study On Olomouc Housing Estates Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Enhancing UAV Technology for Sustainable Environmental Monitoring through ACCELERATE research project 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 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 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 1: AGH University of Krakow, Poland; 2: Marche Polytechnic University Multi-Scale Monitoring Of Peatland Restoration (MooRe) 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? European Space Agency, Italy HyTIR – an Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging Research Platform in the LWIR Wavelength Range Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany Recent upgrades of Flying Laboratory of Imaging Systems 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 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 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 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 ONERA, France Evaluation of Copper-Induced Stress in Asimina Plants Based on Non-Invasive Spectroscopy Techniques 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 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 |
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4:30pm - 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 - 5:00pm |
Registration Location: Foyer - Ground Floor |
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9:00am - 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 |
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9:35am - 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. University of Patras, Greece Satellite Imagery for Bauxite Tailing Mapping in the Frame of the M4mining Project 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 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 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 University of Bayreuth, Germany Reaching New Heights: How to Get High-quality 3D Vegetation Structure Data 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 Innopam co., ltd., Korea, Republic of (South Korea) |
11:00am - 11:30am |
Coffee Break Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
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11:30am - 11:45am |
Sponsor Talk: Platinum Sponsor Presentation: Headwall (headwallphotonics.com) Location: Room 131 (Aula) |
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11:45am - 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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1:15pm - 3:30pm |
Lunch Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
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2:30pm - 3:30pm |
EARSeL General Assembly (members only) Location: Room 131 (Aula) |
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3:30pm - 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 Telops, Canada Use Of The Latest Photogrammetric Techniques In The Inventory of Historical Monuments on the example of Krzeszowice Palace 1: AGH University of Krakow, Poland; 2: AGH University of Krakow, Poland Wildfire Suppression Difficulty Assessment: Example from the Czech Republic 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 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 TUD Dresden University of Technology, Junior Professorship in Environmental Remote Sensing, Dresden, Germany Analysis of Global Nighttime Active Fires 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 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 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 National Land Survey of Finland, Finland AutoWindLoc: Precise Localization of Wind Turbines in High-Resolution Orthophotos for Enhanced Registers University of Hamburg, Germany Leveraging EO-Based Agricultural Monitoring for Predictive Wildlife Collision Risk Mapping in Austria 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 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 Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany Large Scale Mowing Event Detection on Dense Time Series Data Using Deep Learning Methods and Knowledge Distillation 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 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 |
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4:00pm - 5:30pm |
S2: Coffee Break + Poster Exhibition II. (Geology, Cultural Heritage, Fires, EO-AI, General session and Agriculture workshop) Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
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7:00pm - 11:00pm |
Symposium dinner Klasterni Pivovar Strahov (Strahov Monastery Brewery)
Strahovské nádvoří 301, 118 00 Prague 1 |
Date: Thursday, 29/May/2025 | ||
8:00am - 10:00am |
Registration Location: Foyer - Ground Floor |
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9:00am - 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 |
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9:35am - 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 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 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 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 1: University of Turin, Italy; 2: University of Turin, Italy and Italian Society of Remote Sensing (AIT) Standard to Validate Innovations in Agricultural Testing 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 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 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 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 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 - 11:30am |
Coffee Break Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
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11:30am - 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 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 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 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 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 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 Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria SenForFlood: A New Global Dataset for Flooded Area Detection 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 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 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 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 - 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 |
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1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Lunch Location: 2nd Floor - Main Corridor |
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3:00pm - 6:00pm |
Guided Tour |
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