Program Overview
Program Overview
| Day 1 19 October 2026 |
Day 2 20 October 2026 |
Day 3 21 October 2026 |
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| Morning 9:00-12:00 (CEST) |
S3. Remote Sensing in Semi-Arid and Arid Areas S6. Remote Sensing of the Environment - Part 1 |
S6. Remote Sensing of the Environment - Part 2 | S1. AI in Remote Sensing |
| Afternoon 14:00-17:00 (CEST) |
S7. Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage Protection S2. SAR Remote Sensing |
S8. RSVQA - Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering S4. Remote Sensing in Tropical Areas |
S5. Remote Sensing in Urban Areas |
ECRS 2026 Program (DAY 1)
S3. Remote Sensing in Semi-Arid and Arid Areas
S6. Remote Sensing of the Environment - Part 1
Date: 19 October 2026 (Monday)
Time: 09:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| S3. Remote Sensing in Semi-Arid and Arid Areas | ||
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 9:00-9:10 | Prof. Dr. Timo Balz Conference Chair |
Welcome from the Conference Chair |
| 9:10-9:20 | Dr. Magaly Koch Session Host |
Welcome from the Session Host |
| 9:20-9:40 | Dr. James Magidi Invited Speaker |
Assessing wildfire impacts on conservation through the lens of a machine learning-based land cover audit in Namibia’s Etosha National Park |
| 9:40-9:55 | Eleftheria Alexoudaki Oral Speaker |
A smart farming multi-scale spatial framework for monitoring viticultural resilience under climate change in Lemnos Island, Greece |
| 9:55-10:10 | Yuliia Shevchuk Oral Speaker |
Data-Driven Assessment of Land Cover Transformation and Vegetation Stress on The Kinburn Peninsula from 2000 To 2025 Using Landsat, Sentinel-2 and Climate Data |
| S6. Remote Sensing of the Environment - Part 1 | ||
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 10:10-10:20 | Dr. Magaly Koch Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 10:20-10:40 | Dr. Sansar Raj Meena Invited Speaker |
From Local Inventories to Foundation-Scale Models: Scaling Landslide Segmentation with Earth Observation Data |
| 10:40-10:55 | Maurizio Pollino Oral Speaker |
Multiscale Remote Sensing and GIS-Based Reconstruction of the Valgussera Avalanche Event (Italian Alps): Integrating Sentinel-2/-3, UAV Surveys and Forecast Verification |
| 10:55-11:10 | Liudmila Mitsevich Oral Speaker |
Forest growth rate assessment using aerial and satellite imagery for aerodrome hazard monitoring |
| 11:10-11:25 | Anne Mouget Oral Speaker |
Mapping benthic habitats using a combination of Sentinel2 time series, GAN upscalers and ground truth (acoustic & video) |
| 11:25-11:40 | Mahsa Bozorgi Oral Speaker |
Advance Gross Primary Product (GPP) Estimation by Integrating Remote Sensing-Based Evapotranspiration into Light Use Efficiency Modeling |
| 11:40-11:55 | Triantafyllia Tsiompra Oral Speaker |
Detecting crop residue burning in smallholder agricultural areas of Greece using Sentinel-2 and a Random Forest classifier
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S7. Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage Protection
S2. SAR Remote Sensing
Date: 19 October 2026 (Monday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EST, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| S7. Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage Protection | ||
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 14:00-14:10 | Prof. Dr. Fulong Chen Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:10-14:30 | Prof. Dr. Wei Ren Invited Speaker |
From Conservation to Transmission: AI-Driven Sustainable Use of Cultural Heritage in China |
| 14:30-14:45 | Nicolas Melillos Oral Speaker |
A Multi-Model Benchmark for Archaeological Looting Pit Detection: From Fine-Tuned Detectors to Foundation Models |
| 14:45-15:00 | Nadera Nabeel Alqadsi Oral Speaker |
GIS-Based Identification of Upstream Blue–Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Stormwater Management in Sana'a, Yemen |
| S2. SAR Remote Sensing | ||
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 15:00-15:10 | Prof. Dr. Marco Scaioni Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 15:10-15:30 | Dr. Francesca Grassi Invited Speaker |
Contributions of the multi-temporal InSAR method to structural analysis and infrastructure safety assessment |
| 15:30-15:45 | Jia Wang-Connelly Oral Speaker |
Multi-Modal Remote Sensing for Post-Disaster Building Damage Detection: Lessons from Five Events Across Earthquakes and Wildfires |
| 15:45-16:00 | Rasoul Eskandari Oral Speaker |
Long-Term Ground Deformation and Instability Assessment Using Multi-Release EGMS Products: The Case of Castres, Southern France |
| 16:00-16:15 | Mohamad El Moussawi Oral Speaker |
Quantum Meets SAR: An End-to-End Quantum Implementation of the Range-Doppler Algorithm |
| 16:15-16:30 | Koki Ikeda Oral Speaker |
Contactless Assessment of Earthquake-damaged Drainage Wells using Sentinel-1 SAR Backscatter Time-Series Analysis |
| 16:30-16:45 | Dimitris Andreou Oral Speaker |
Investigating Polarization Effects on annual Sentinel-1 Ship Density Maps through a Ship Polarization Index (SPI) |
| 16:45-17:00 | Nadia Yanakieva Oral Speaker |
Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 SAR Monitoring of Glacier Dynamics and Snowmelt Supported by Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 SLSTR Surface Albedo Mapping on Livingston Island, Antarctica |
ECRS 2026 Program (DAY 2)
S6. Remote Sensing of the Environment - Part 2
Date: 20 October 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 09:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| S6. Remote Sensing of the Environment - Part 2 | ||
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 9:00-9:10 | Dr. Yanbing Bai Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 9:10-9:30 | Dr. Shan Lu Invited Speaker |
Estimation of Leaf Traits Using Spectral Remote Sensing Techniques |
| 9:30-9:45 | Adrien Le Guillou Oral Speaker |
Deep Learning for Invasive Species Mapping: Evaluating Semantic Segmentation of Spartina alterniflora Using Drone Imagery |
| 9:45-10:00 | Juliana Castanheira Oral Speaker |
Forest volume estimation in Eucalyptus globulus stands using LiDAR data from mainland Portugal |
| 10:00-10:15 | Antoine Collin Oral Speaker |
On the synergistic use of the L2 and L3 UAV lidar infrared intensity with visible and surface models for habitat classification: A case study on a complex socio-ecological littoral (Brittany, France) |
| 10:15-10:30 | Olympia Kourounioti Oral Speaker |
Estimating Sub-pixel Vegetation Fractions in Vineyards Using a Multi-scale Hyperspectral UAV–PRISMA Framework |
| 10:30-10:45 | Federico Filipponi Oral Speaker |
Mitigating baseline contamination in satellite-derived water frequencies for robust river shrinking assessment under recurrent droughts |
| 10:45-11:00 | Paris Antonakis Oral Speaker |
Evaluating the sensitivity of Sentinel-2 combinations of spectral bands and Indices for Floating Marine Plastic Detection |
| 11:00-11:15 | Bristi Ghosh Oral Speaker |
Integrating Remote Sensing and Crop Physiological Processes for Large-Scale Winter Wheat Yield Estimation in the Indo-Gangetic Plain |
| 11:15-11:30 | Huanyang Zhao Oral Speaker |
Weather-Constrained Acquisition of UAV Remote Sensing Data for Environmental Monitoring and Precision Agriculture in Southwestern Ohio |
S8. RSVQA - Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering
S4. Remote Sensing in Tropical Areas
Date: 20 October 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EST, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| S8. RSVQA - Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering | ||
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 14:00-14:10 | Dr. Xiang Li Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:10-14:30 | Dr. Tianjin Huang Invited Speaker |
From Accuracy to Reliability: Rethinking Earth Observation Foundation Models |
| 14:30-14:50 | Dr. Weijia Li Invited Speaker |
Towards Urban Spatial Intelligence: From Visual Perception to Multimodal Reasoning |
| 14:50-15:10 | Dr. Yue Zhou Invited Speaker |
Beyond Semantic Understanding: Toward Remote Sensing VQA for the Real Physical World |
| 15:10-15:30 | Dr. Zhitong Xiong Invited Speaker |
Intelligent Earth Observation: From Unified Foundation Models to Autonomy |
| 15:30-15:50 | Dr. Li Mi Invited Speaker |
Rethinking Evaluation and Baselines of Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models |
| 15:50-16:05 | Yong Tao Oral Speaker |
HyperRS: Hyperbolic Embeddings for Hierarchical Remote Sensing Understanding |
| S4. Remote Sensing in Tropical Areas | ||
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 16:05-16:15 | Prof. Dr. Giorgos Mallinis Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 16:15-16:35 | Dr. Eben N. Broadbent Invited Speaker |
FAROS: Mapping Forest Age and Its Relationship to Aboveground Biomass - with a case study of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica |
| 16:35-16:50 | Rhythem Kaushal Oral Speaker |
Integrated Structural and Physiological Dynamics of Tropical MangrovesUsing Sentinel-2 Time Series: A Decadal Assessment in the IndianSundarbans (2016–2025) |
| 16:50-17:05 | Sara Aharon Oral Speaker |
Cloud-Based Monitoring of Twenty Years of Shoreline Change on Ko Phi Phi Don, Thailand, Using Google Earth Engine and Multi-Temporal Satellite Imagery |
ECRS 2026 Program (DAY 3)
S1. AI in Remote Sensing
Date: 21 October 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 09:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EST, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| S1. AI in Remote Sensing | ||
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 9:00-9:10 | To be updated | |
| 9:10-9:25 | Tommaso Orusa Oral Speaker |
Alpha Foundation Satellite Embeddings and GEDI Integration for Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass in Alpine Areas via Google Earth Engine: An Application in Valle d'Aosta, NW Italy |
| 9:25-9:40 | Puneetha Dharmapura Shrirama Oral Speaker |
Segment-Level Foundation Models for Multi-Class Urban Land Composition around Street Trees |
| 9:40-9:55 | Fahim Sufi Oral Speaker |
Beyond Physical Observation: AI Based Crisis Event Sensing from Heterogeneous News Streams for Environmental Situational Awareness |
| 9:55-10:10 | Federica Torrisi Oral Speaker |
A Multi-Sensor Machine Learning Framework for Global Volcanic Cloud Monitoring |
| 10:10-10:25 | Simona Cariello Oral Speaker |
Cloud-Based Workflow for Detection and Flux Estimation of Volcanic SO₂ Plumes Using Sentinel-5P/TROPOMI and ERA5 Data |
| 10:25-10:40 | George Melillos Oral Speaker |
Bringing Artificial Intelligence to the Coast: A Multi-Model Framework Fusing Sentinel-2 and Earth Observation Data for Near-Real-Time Beach Monitoring across 200 Sites in Cyprus |
| 10:40-10:55 | Yuxuan Wang Oral Speaker |
A Multi-Agent Geospatial Intelligence Framework for Near-Real-Time Flood Situation Assessment |
| 10:55-11:10 | Wahiba Dardouri Oral Speaker |
Enhancing U-Net, SegFormer, Swin U-Net, and DeepLabV3+ for Automated Building Detection Using Biophysical Indices |
| 11:10-11:25 | Rodes Angelo Batista da Silva Oral Speaker |
APRENDIZADO DE MÁQUINA INFORMADO PELA FISIOLOGIA PARA PREDIÇÃO DE NITROGÊNIO FOLIAR EM ARROZ USANDO DADOS HIPERESPECTRAIS E SIMULAÇÃO MULTIESPECTRAIS |
S5. Remote Sensing in Urban Areas
Date: 21 October 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EST, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| S5. Remote Sensing in Urban Areas | ||
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 14:00-14:10 | Prof. Dr. Riccardo Buccolieri Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:10-14:30 | Prof. Dr. Monika Kuffer Invited Speaker |
To be updated |
| 14:30-14:50 | Dr. Stefanos Georganos Invited Speaker (Presented by Dr. Sai Ganesh Veeravalli on behalf of him) |
Hidden deficits: mapping urban deprivation across 5,000+ cities with Earth observation and GeoAI |
| 14:50-15:05 | Kerin Cardona Oral Speaker |
Twelve-Year Landsat-Derived Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity by Local Climate Zone in Barcelona (2013–2024) |
| 15:05-15:20 | Eduard Ilie Nastase Oral Speaker |
Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Framework for Urban Ground and Building Deformation Monitoring in the Slănic Salt-Karst Area (Romania) |
| 15:20-15:35 | Kensho Nakagawa Oral Speaker |
Detection of Earthquake-Induced Fractures inon Highways using Multivariate Time-Series Analysis of Optical Satellite Imagery |
| 15:35-15:50 | Moritz Hütten Oral Speaker |
Precise Localization of Terrestrial AIS Receivers in Urban Environments via Radio Shadows |
| 15:50-16:05 | Kazuma Shibano Oral Speaker |
Water Depth Measurement and Cross-Section Extraction of Concrete Open Channel using ICESat-2 ATL03 Photon-Counting Laser Altimetry |
| 16:05-16:20 | Maryam Esmaeili Oral Speaker |
ObliqueFit: A MATLAB Tool for 2D Oblique Spatial Analysis Using LiDAR and Photogrammetric Point Clouds |
| 16:20-16:35 | Mahbubul Alam Oral Speaker |
Urban Morphology as a Driver of Surface Thermal Patterns: A Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Assessment (2014–2024) |
| 16:35-16:50 | Antonio Esposito Oral Speaker |
Spatiotemporal Variability, Drivers and Extreme-Heat Response of Surface Urban Heat Islands Across Italian Cities |
| 16:50-17:05 | ELBER RUFINO ATERO Oral Speaker |
Automated Railway Sleeper Inspection Integrating UAV Photogrammetry and Deep Learning: Towards an Intelligent Geospatial Monitoring System |
| 17:05-17:15 | Prof. Dr. Timo Balz Conference Chair |
Closing from the Conference Chair |