The Conference is organised with open sessions (oral and poster presentations), and invited sessions. In this page, you can find the short program with all the events, and the link to the extended agenda:
The Closing Panel will be dedicated to the topic of “Remote sensing and Forest Fires”.
The technical session will be introduced by a short presentation from the Civil Protection:
THE DISASTER OF JULY 2021 IN SARDINIA: A VOICE FROM THE CIVIL PROTECTION, Daniela Pani
Moreover, during the Conference, 5 free courses will drive the participants through the topics of the Conference
IMPACT AND GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE
PRIMEWATER EVENT EO VIRTUAL LAB
DEMONSTRATIVE SESSION FOR THE USE OF HPC-HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ON SATELLITE AND GEOSPATIAL DATA APPLICATIONS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT (LAND CONSUMPTION, GREEN INDICATORS)
MICROWAVE RADAR REMOTE SENSING OF VOLCANIC CLOUDS: INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION TO ETNA ERUPTIONS
13th, Monday September
Pre-Conference events
9:00: 11:00 Free Course “IMPACT and Google Earth Engine” by Dario Simonetti, JRC
The course is open to all interested, and the registration is required
The contents of the course ca be seen in this link:
IMPACT AND GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE
It is supported by the “Sardinia Land Cover Project”, a collaborative activity between the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences of the University of Cagliari and the STGRI- Autonomous Region of Sardinia.
11:30- 13:00 Panel dedicated to the Italian Public Administrations, hosted by the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, on the Urban Spaces Management using Satellite and Remote Data
AIT2021 Conference
14:30- 15:00 Opening session
Livio Rossi, AIT President; Antonio Funedda, Università di Cagliari; Roberto Meloni, Water Authority Agency, ENAS; Massimo Vanzi, Aerospace Delegate, Università di Cagliari
Maria Antonietta Dessena and Maria Teresa Melis, AIT Organizer Commettee
15:00- 16:00 Panel 1: New Space Hyperspectral Mission and thematic contribution for environmental monitoring. Chair: Mirco Boschetti (CNR IREA); Andrea Taramelli, IUSS Pavia
Part A: Ongoing and foreseen Hyperspectral missions: challenges and scientific questions
Conference Keynotes:
- The Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission, CHIME: application domains and on-going studies. CHIME. Jennifer Adams & Marco Celesti – ESA
- EnMAP: The German Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy Mission. Anke Schickling, Sabine Chabrillat, Saskia Förster, Karl Segl, Godela Rossner, Michael Bock, Laura LaPorta, Sebastian Fischer– German Aerospace Center – DLR
- The Italian PRISMA mission, product and next phase: payload characteristics, success study and future scenario. Ettore Lopinto & Patrizia Sacco – ASI
16:15- 18:00. Part B: Technical and thematic presentation: hyperspectral data potentiality and exploitation
- Orthorectification of PRISMA Images, Valerio Baiocchi, Felicia Monti, Francesca Giannone
- PRISMA Pansharpening Preliminary Analysis, Roberta Bruno, Mauro Di Donna, Maria Lucia Magliozzi, Fabio Volpe, Massimo Zavagli
- Hyperspectral remote sensing for biodiversity: experience and potential of the new hyperspectral PRISMA satellite, Rossini Micol, Tagliabue Giulia, Panigada Cinzia
- Assessing non-Photosynthetic Vegetation from Satellite Imaging Spectroscopy: PRISMA Current Results and Perspectives for Future Research, Monica Pepe, Loredana Pompilio, Luigi Ranghetti, Beniamino Gioli, Mirco Boschetti
- The New Hyperspectral Satellite PRISMA: Imagery for Forest Types Discrimination, Elia Vangi, Giovanni d’Amico, Saverio Francini, Francesca Giannetti, Gherado Chirici, Bruno Lasserre, Marco Marchetti
- Unattended Field Spectroscopy in the Alps: Preliminary Comparison with Sentinel 2 and Prisma Satellite Data: Biagio Di Mauro, Roberto Garzonio, Sergio Cogliati, Edoardo Cremonesi, Tommaso Julitta, Andrea De Sanctis, Alexander Kokhanovsky, Micol Rossini, Roberto Colombo
Questions and Discussion
14th, Tuesday September
9:00- 11:00
Italian Space Agency- ASI Special Session:
“Present and Future of COSMO SkyMed Mission”
Conference Keynote Speaker: Maria Virelli, Responsible COSMO SkyMed Mission ASI
Chair: Livio Rossi, AIT
- Crop Classification and Biomass Estimate through Machine Learning Algorithms Applied to COSMO-SkyMed Imagery, Alessandro Lapini, Giacomo Fontanelli, Simonetta Paloscia, Simone Pettinato, Emanuele Santi, Deodato Tapete, Francesca Cigna, Giuliano Ramat
- Measuring Impacts of COVID-19 on Urban Dynamics Using COSMO -SkyMed Time Series, Deodato Tapete
- Satellite Data for Structural Monitoring of Historical Building: The Temple of Minerva Medica in Rome, Dora Foti, Mariella Diaferio, Michela Lerna, Maria Francesca Sabba
- First and Second-Generation COSMO-SkyMed DINSAR Data Integration for Advanced Deformation Analyses over the Built-Up Environment, Manuela Bonano, Riccardo Lanari, Michele Manunta, Yasir Muhammad, Pasquale Striano, Ivana Zinno
- Using COSMO-SkyMed to Support Infrastructure Monitoring, Elena Francioni, Dino Quattrociocchi, Mario Costantini, Carmine Frascella, Fabio Malvarosa, Federico Minati, Francesco Trillo, Francesco Vecchioli, Britti Filippo, Vittorio Gentile, Federica Pieralice
- COSMO-SkyMed Very High Resolution INSAR in the Era of The Sentinel-1 Based European Ground Motion Service, Mario Costantini, Carmine Frascella, Fabio Malvarosa, Federico Minati, Francesco Trillo, Francesco Vecchioli, Elena Francioni
11:15- 12:45
1 Parallel Special Panel 
: “Advanced Earth Observation products and integration with in situ data and modelling tools for water resources management – The H2020 PRIMEWATER project”. Chair and Co-Chair names: Tzimas Apostolos (EMVIS), Giardino Claudia (CNR-IREA), Bresciani Mariano (CNR-IREA), Schenk Karin (EOMAP), Heege Thomas (EOMAP), Pechlivanidis Ilias (SMHI) . Key talk: Tzimas Apostolos (EMVIS) – Overview of PRIMEWATER project
FREE COURSE:
PRIMEWATER EVENT EO Virtual Lab
2 Parallel Panel: “Urban Health from Space”. Chair: Giuseppina Vacca, University of Cagliari- Italy
13:00- 14:30
POSTER SESSION*
Chairs: Maria Antonietta Dessena & Maria Teresa Melis
*The poster session will be organized with short presentations (3 minutes) by each speaker through the following possible formats:
- poster in pdf format with online presentation
- video presentation
- ppt online presentation
Speakers are invited to participate to the session, and to be available for any questions.
The video and pdf poster would be sent by 6th September for the uploading into the system.
14:30- 15:15
FREE COURSE:
Demonstrative session for the use of HPC-High Performance Computing on satellite and geospatial data applications in the urban environment (land consumption, green indicators), Matteo Picchiani, Gmatics
15:30- 16:40
3 Parallel Special Panel: “MARINE REMOTE SENSING FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”. Part A: Conference Key Note Speaker: Maurizio Migliaccio (University of Naples, Parthenope). Chair and Co-Chair names: Ferdinando Nunziata, Andrea Buono
4 Parallel Panel: “MONITORING FOREST HEALTH”. Chair: Francesca Giannetti
16:45- 18:00
5 Parallel Special Panel: “MARINE REMOTE SENSING FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”. Part B: Chair: Maurizio Migliaccio
6 Parallel Panel: TREND ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE DATA AND CLIMATE . A special panel supported by “CLIMATE Project” . Chair and co-Chair: Maria Antonietta Dessena & Maria Teresa Melis
15th, Wednesday September
9:00- 10:45
7 Parallel Special Panel: ANALYSIS AND QUANTIFICATION OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. Conference Key Note Speaker: Gaetana Ganci, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Catania – Osservatorio Etneo: “Characterizing and quantifying the eruptive activity through multi-source satellite imagery”. Chair: Simona Scollo- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Catania – Osservatorio Etneo, Lucia Mona- IMAAA- CNR, Laura Pioli- Dipartimento di Scienze chimiche e geologiche, Università di Cagliari
FREE COURSE:
“MICROWAVE RADAR REMOTE SENSING OF VOLCANIC CLOUDS: INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION TO ETNA ERUPTIONS” Luigi Mereu
8 Parallel Special Panel: “REMOTE SENSING APPLICATION IN GEO-ARCHEOLOGY”. Conference Key Note Speaker: Donatella Dominici, University of L’Aquila: “Remote Sensing in Geoarcheology”. Chair: Francesco Immordino, (ENEA – Laboratory of Technologies for Structural Dynamics and the Prevention of Seismic and Hydrogeological Risk).
FREE COURSE:
RUNNING AND PROCESSING OF SPECTRAL DATA THROUGH IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE
Maria Alicandro, Francesco Immordino, Sara Zollini
11:00- 12:15
9 Parallel Panel: “PRECISION FARMING AND FORESTRY MANAGEMENT”. Chair: Enrico Borgogno Mondino, Università di Torino
10 Parallel Panel: “GEOHAZARD AND EMERGENCY”. Chair:
12:15- 13:30
SPECIAL PANEL supported by “Women in Aerospace- Europe (WIA- E) Rome Local Group”
“WOMEN AND SPACE”
“Women and Space” is a special session proposed by the Rome Local Group of Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-E Rome LG), to highlight the achievements of women researchers and industry professionals involved in space activities as major contributor to the theme of the Conference: “Planet Health”.
The Keynote Speech will be performed by three persons:
Cristina Valente and Annamaria Nassisi, leaders of the WIA-E Rome LG, and Alice Pellegrino, Coordinator of Gender Equality Research.
The role of women, and the challenges they face in this field and their responsibilities to others and to the next generations of women will be discussed Research with the invited panellists:
- Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno (INGV), EO Scientist and President eGEOS
- Elena Toson (T4i), PMI Professional
- Federica Angeletti (PhD, Aerospace Engineer), Young Researcher
- Fabio Santoni, Professor Aerospace System, La Sapienza “Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aereonautica, Elettrica ed Energetica”
- Paolo Marzioli, (PhD, Aerospace Engineer), Young Researcher
- Eva Hartai, ENGIE Project
The Panel will end with a Q&A session to give the audience the opportunity to interact with the panelists.
14:30- 15:45
11 Parallel Panel: “REMOTE SENSING IN GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS AND MAPPING“. Chair: Maurizio Mulas, Professore associato FICT – ESPOL presso Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Provincia del Guayas, Ecuador
12 Parallel Panel: “UAV AND SMALL SATELLITES”. Chair: Fabio Giulio Tonolo, Politecnico di Torino
15:45- 17:15
Closing Panel
“FOREST FIRES MONITORING AND HAZARD”.
Chair: Ioannis Vogiatzakis, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC)
THE DISASTER OF JULY 2021 IN SARDINIA: A VOICE FROM THE CIVIL PROTECTION, Daniela Pani
Closing acknowledgements by AIT
The Program with the extended list of the contributions can be downloaded here: Program_AIT 2021
PLEASE USE THE LINK BELOW TO ACCESS TO THE WEB PLATFORM
https://kassiopeagroup.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0scuCvrTIrHNL2L-cFQgFyaxfcMQ-o7wt2