Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 18/Sept/2024
9:00am
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9:15am
Welcome Coffee
Location: Marquee
9:15am
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9:30am
Reflections on Day 1 from urban practitioners
Location: Big Hall
9:30am
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10:00am
Hackaton MapYourCity AI4EO
Location: Big Hall

Session Chair:
Nicolas Longepe

Speakers

  • Caroline Arnold, DKRZ (Germany)
  • Tran Hoang Ba, (Japan)
  • Eric Park and Hagai Raja Sinulingga, TelePIX (South Korea)

Award Ceremony Hackaton MapYourCity AI4EO
Presentation

10:00am
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11:30am
Session 5: Assessing and Mitigating Urban Hazards: Subsidence, Water Risks, and Flooding
Location: Big Hall
Session Chairs:
Thomas Kemper
Petya Pishmisheva
 
10 minutes

How can 13 billion measurements of the ground motion help manage natural hazards in urban areas?

Lorenzo Solari

EEA, Denmark



10 minutes

Present-day and future urban subsidence risk in Italy based on multi-scale satellite InSAR workflows and advanced modelling

Francesca Cigna1, Roberta Bonì2, Pietro Teatini3, Roberta Paranunzio1, Claudia Zoccarato2

1: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Italy; 2: Department of Science, Technology and Society (STS), University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) Pavia, Italy; 3: Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA), University of Padua (UNIPD), Italy



10 minutes

Visualizing the impact of water availability and extreme events - enhancing water risk mapping through future climate change and urbanization scenarios.

Frederic Andreas Hebbeker, Chahinaz Ziani

Technical University of Applied Science Cologne, Germany



10 minutes

Modelling multi-geohazard risk at city scale through satellite InSAR and official open data

Giandomenico Mastrantoni1,2, Claudia Masciulli1,2, Roberta Marini3, Carlo Esposito1,2, Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza1,2, Paolo Mazzanti1,2,3

1: Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy; 2: Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy; 3: NHAZCA S.r.l., start-up of Sapienza University of Rome, Via Vittorio Bachelet 12, Rome, Italy



10 minutes

Fast and generalized flood emulators for high-resolution urban pluvial flooding

Dinesh Krishna Natarajan1,2, Marco Stricker1, Marlon Nuske1, Andreas Dengel1,2

1: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany; 2: University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Germany



10 minutes

Subsidence risk assessment for enhancing urban infrastructure sustainability: A case study in Ravenna, Italy"

Hanieh Dadkhah, Divyeshkumar Rana, Giandomenico Mastrantoni, Ebrahim Ghaderpour, Paolo Mazzanti

Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy

Session 8: Commercial EO data and services for urban contexts
Location: Magellan
Session Chairs:
Peggy Fischer
Romain Esteve
 
10 minutes

ESA Earthnet Third Party Missions Programme - commercial data for science and R&D

Peggy Fischer

ESA



10 minutes

Innovative Solutions for Urban Heat Challenges: Insights from SatVu’s HotSat-1 Thermal Data

Natalia Kuniewicz

SatVu, UK



10 minutes

constellr HiVE thermal infrared satellite constellation - High Resolution Land Surface Temperature for urban and infrastructure monitoring

Tobias Leismann, Daniel Spengler

constellr GmbH, Germany



10 minutes

The urban applications of 3D modelling & simulations based on high resolution satellite data

Claire d’Oiron

Airbus



10 minutes

The COSMO-SkyMed system: unique capabilities for managing urban needs

Axel Oddone, Simone Sampieri, Andrea Bucarelli

e-GEOS, Roma, Italy



10 minutes

Japetus constellation & Earth Observation Platform: How Prométhée Earth Intelligence is offering a new decision support capacity to protect cities against Natural Disasters

Philippe Mateu, Bastien Cerri, Adrien Pordoy, Youssef Houali, Mehdi Irzan, Carole Belot, Olivier Maes, Pierre Pommies

Prométhée Earth Intelligence, France

11:30am
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12:00pm
Coffee Break
Location: Marquee
12:00pm
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1:30pm
Session 6: Global Urban development and dynamics (Global urbanisation - part 1)
Location: Big Hall
Session Chairs:
Marc Paganini
Pourya Salehi
 
10 minutes

Monitoring Urbanization's Pulse – the WSF tracker

Mattia Marconcini1, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini1, Noel Gorelick2

1: German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany; 2: Google Switzerland



10 minutes

The global human settlement layer as a complete framework for research and policy on urban development

Michele Melchiorri, Thomas Kemper, Martino Pesaresi

JRC, Italy



10 minutes

Accurately mapping urban dynamics at global and continental scale based on high-resolution Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 imagery

Michael Riffler1, Armin Leitner1, Stefan Ralser1, Loic Faucqueur2, Alexandre Pennec2, Maximilian Jakasovic3, Yang Li3, Mattia Marconcini4, Thomas Esch4, Eva Sukenikova1, Usue Donezar5, Manuel Mayr5, Michele Melchiorri6, Thomas Kemper6, Christian Schleicher1

1: GeoVille Informations Systems GmbH, Austria; 2: CLS Group, France; 3: Vypno GmbH, Germany; 4: German Areospace Center, DLR, Germany; 5: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, European Environment Agency; 6: Copernicus Emergency Management Service, Joint Research Centre, European Commission



10 minutes

From Space to Place: Earth Observation for Global Urban Sustainability Made Easy

Tomas Soukup1, Pavel Vlach1, Vojtech Dubrovsky1, Thomas Esch2, Mattia Marconcini2

1: GISAT, Czech Republic; 2: DLR, Germany



10 minutes

Nighttime Warming Trends in Cities Across Two Decades

Panagiotis Sismanidis1, Benjamin Bechtel1, Marzie Naserikia2, Negin Nazarian2,3, Melissa Hart2, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou4, Darren Ghent5

1: Institute of Geography, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 2: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; 3: School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; 4: Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece; 5: National Centre for Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK



10 minutes

Where does night light matter?

Monika Kuffer1, Angela Abascal2, Alejandro S. De Miguel3, Christopher Kyba4, Hector Linares5, Franz Hölker6, Tobias Degen6

1: University of Twente, ITC, Netherlands, The; 2: Public University of Navarre, Department of Engineering, Pamplona, Spain; 3: Universidad Complutense de Madrid; 4: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences; 5: Stars4All Foundation; 6: Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)

Session 9: Innovative downscaling and AI techniques (New emerging technologies -part 1)
Location: Magellan
Session Chairs:
Mikolaj Czerkawski
Julia Wasala
 
10 minutes

Evaluating the performance of the urbisphere Urban Hyperspectral Library in multi-sensor satellite imagery classification

Giannis Lantzanakis1, Nektarios Chrysoulakis1, Andreas Christen2, Sue Grimmond3, Joern Birkmann4

1: Remote Sensing Lab, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece; 2: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg - Germany, Environmental Meteorology; 3: University of Reading - UK, Urban Micromet; 4: University of Stuttgart - Germany, Institute of Spatial and Regional Planning



10 minutes

IRIX4US: Chaining AI models for a comprehensive change detection of building footprints from super-resolved Sentinel-2 images

Ricardo Martínez Prentice, Alejandro Redondo García, Aaron Nebreda Trejo, Javier Becerra, Aurelio García Rochera

COTESA, Spain



10 minutes

Super-Resolution of Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope EO images: a comparative study

Roberto Cilli1, Ester Pantaleo1,2, Nicola Amoroso1,2, Gaetano Alessandro Vivaldi3, Vincenzo Giannico3, Giovanni Sanesi3, Alfonso Monaco1,2, Roberto Bellotti1,2

1: Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica M. Merlin, Università degli Studi di Bari M. Merlin; 2: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sede di Bari, Italy; 3: Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro



10 minutes

Human-in-the-loop: empowering urban environmental monitoring with flexible cloud-based satellite mapping workflows

Nicklas Simonsen, Mads Christensen

DHI, Denmark

1:30pm
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2:30pm
Lunch
2:30pm
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4:00pm
Session 7: Mapping and modelling urban growth: from informal settlements to SDG indicators monitoring (Global urbanisation - part 2)
Location: Big Hall
Session Chairs:
Zoltan Bartalis
Dennis Mwaniki
 
10 minutes

Improved mapping and modelling of urban development for impact assessment

Jasper van Vliet

VU University Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies, the Netherlands



10 minutes

Machine learning urban segmentation using Sentinel-2 and its super resolved version

Maximilien Houël

SISTEMA GmbH, Austria



10 minutes

Earth Observation Time Series for SDG11.3.1 Indicator Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges

Yifang Ban1, Dennis Mwaniki2, Robert Ndugwa2

1: KTH; 2: UN Habitat



10 minutes

Complementary use of citizen science and EO data for addressing SDG data gaps

Dilek Fraisl, Linda See, Ian McCallum, Steffen Fritz

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria



10 minutes

User and data-centric artificial intelligence for mapping informal areas (IDEATLAS)

Bedru Tareke1, Paulo Silva Filho1, Monika Kuffer1, Claudio Persello1, Raian V. Maretto1, Jon Wang1, Angela Abascal1, Priam Pillai2, Binti Singh3, Juan Manuel D’Attoli4, Caroline Kabaria5, Juilo Pedrassoli6, Patricia Brito6, Peter Elias7, Elio Villaseñor Garcia8, Andrea Ramírez Santiago8

1: University of Twente, ITC, Netherlands, The; 2: Pillai College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai, India; 3: KRVIA, Mumbai, India; 4: National Registry of Informal Settlements, Argentina; 5: APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya; 6: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; 7: University of Lagos, Nigeria; 8: INEGI, Mexico



10 minutes

Leveraging AI technologies for informal settlement mapping

Sophie Naue, Michael Hathorn, Anand Gajaria

UNITAC UN-Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities, Germany

Session 10: Advancements in 3D Urban Modeling (New emerging technologies - part 2)
Location: Magellan
Session Chairs:
Nicolas Longepe
Alessandro Sebastianelli
 
10 minutes

Deep Learning architecture for 2D/3D joint Change Detection in Urban Areas

Babak Memar1, Paolo Gamba2, Luigi Russo2, Silvia Liberata Ullo3

1: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: University of Pavia Pavia, Italy; 3: University of Sannio Benevento, Italy



10 minutes

A global analysis of 3D settlement morphology and its relationship to economic and planning conditions

Thomas Esch1,2, Klaus Deininger3, Remi Jedwab4,5, Mattia Marconcini1, Hogeun Park3, Julian Zeidler1

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany; 3: World Bank Group, USA; 4: George Washington University, USA; 5: New York University, USA



10 minutes

Unveiling 3d insights of buildings from multi-modal sentinel-1/2 time series

Ritu Yadav, Andrea Nascetti, Yifang Ban

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden



10 minutes

A Deep Learning system for automatic extraction of 3D building heights on large scale using very high-resolution COSMO-SkyMed data

Luigi Russo1,2, Paolo Gamba1, Silvia Liberata Ullo2

1: University of Pavia, Italy; 2: University of Sannio, Italy



10 minutes

Generating semantized 3D meshes with CARS, a scalable open-source Multiview Stereo framework.

Yoann Steux1, David Youssefi2, Marian Rassat1, Thomas Billaud1, Loïc Dumas1, Mathis Roux1

1: CS Group, France; 2: CNES, France



10 minutes

3D surface temperature modeling evaluation with in-situ thermal remote sensing: A study in Berlin

Maria Gkolemi1, Zina Mitraka1, Nektarios Chrysoulakis1, Will Morrison2, Andreas Christen2, Sue Grimmond3, Jörn Birkmann4

1: Remote Sensing Lab, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece; 2: University of Freigburg, Germany; 3: University of Reading, United Kingdom; 4: University of Stuttgart, Germany

4:00pm
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5:00pm
Closing Session
Location: Big Hall

 
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