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Conference Agenda

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Date: Tuesday, 15/Oct/2024
9:00am - 9:30am	Registration Location: James Cook meeting room
9:30am - 9:55am	Opening and Welcome Location: Magellan meeting room Opening and Welcome 09:30 - 09:40 ESA opening \| G. Campbell - ESA 09:40 - 09:50 EARSEL Opening \| M. Crespi - EARSEL 09:50 - 09:55 Logistics
9:55am - 10:10am	KEYNOTE SPEECH Location: Magellan meeting room 9:55am - 10:10am Copernicus Land Monitoring Service: Global Earth Observation products for Natural Heritage monitoring Simone Balbo, Andrea Lupi EC - Joint Research Centre, Italy
10:10am - 11:10am	Session - Monitoring Location: Magellan meeting room Chair: Jolanda Patruno, European Space Agency Chair: Mario Hernandez, ISPRS 10:10am - 10:25am Regional-scale mapping and condition assessment of archaeological mounds with satellite optical and SAR-based high-resolution digital elevation models - Remote presentation Deodato Tapete¹, Francesca Cigna² 1: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana / Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy; 2: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR) 10:25am - 10:40am Geoheritage to Support Heritage Authorities: Research Case Studies on Maya Archaeological Sites Mario Hernandez¹, Philippe De Maeyer², Luc Zwartjes², Antonio Benavides³, José Huchim³ 1: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Foundation; 2: University of Ghent; 3: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia 10:40am - 10:55am Identification of Maya ruins covered by jungle using Sentinel-1 Laetitia Thirion, Regis Guinvarch Université Paris Saclay, France 10:55am - 11:10am From Forest Monitoring to Cultural Heritage: Reanalyzing LiDAR Data with Deep Learning to Map Ancient Structures in Yucatan, Mexico Rune Van Severen¹, Jana Ameye¹, Mario Hernandez², Tim Van de Voorde¹ 1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: Co-chair EARSeL Special Interest Group Earth Observation to support Cultural and Natural Heritage
11:10am - 11:40am	Coffee Break Location: James Cook meeting room
11:40am - 1:15pm	Session - Monitoring - Continued Location: Magellan meeting room Chair: Jolanda Patruno, European Space Agency Chair: Mario Hernandez, ISPRS 11:40am - 11:55am InSAR techniques and multi-risk assessment approach for monitoring Cultural heritage threatened by natural and anthropogenic hazards Daniele Spizzichino, Federica Ferrigno, Gabriele Leoni, Francesco Menniti ISPRA - Geological Survey of Italy 11:55am - 12:10pm THE FUCINO: HISTORY OF A DRAINAGE SEEN FROM SPACE Tiziana Ercole University Paris 1 Sorbonne, France 12:10pm - 12:25pm Archaeological prospection and cultural heritage monitoring with satellite SAR imagery in Rome (Italy) - Remote presentation Deodato Tapete^1,2, Francesca Cigna² 1: Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, Italy; 2: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy 12:25pm - 12:40pm Cultural Heritage and Remote Sensing: An Alliance for the Future Manuela Ferri, Cecilia Sciarretta, Gabriele Murchio e-GEOS SpA, Italy 12:40pm - 12:55pm PERSEO Project: Enhancing Archaeological Prospection with Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning Giulio Poggi, Gregory Sech, Marco Fiorucci, Arianna Traviglia Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy 12:55pm - 1:15pm Q&A . . OC, Italy
1:15pm - 2:30pm	Lunch
2:30pm - 3:30pm	Session - Climate and Awareness Location: Magellan meeting room Chair: Jolanda Patruno, European Space Agency Chair: Mario Hernandez, ISPRS 2:30pm - 2:45pm Investigating anthropogenic and climate change threats to Iraqi archaeological landscapes with satellite imagery Francesca Cigna¹, Deodato Tapete^1,2, Louise Rayne³, Jen L. Makovics³, Hope K. Irvine³, Michelle W. de Gruchy⁴, Jaafar Jotheri⁵ 1: Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy; 2: Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, Italy; 3: Newcastle University, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; 4: United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), Geneva, Switzerland; 5: Department of Archaeology, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq 2:45pm - 3:00pm Innovative strategies to enhance the resilience of sensitive cultural and natural heritage objectives against climate hazards Alessandro Sardella¹, Ramiro Marco Figuera², Stefano Natali², Claudia Roberta Calidonna³, Alessandra Bonazza^1,4 1: National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Bologna, Italy; 2: SISTEMA GmbH, Vienna, Austria; 3: National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Lamezia Terme, Italy; 4: Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Roma, Italy 3:00pm - 3:15pm New Methods and Tools for Preserving Cultural Heritage in the future, applied to Monitoring Coastal Degradation along the Tunisian Shore (Kerkennah Islands) within the framework of the SIG Africa collaborative mapping project. KATIA SCHÖRLE¹, LUC DIATTA², LUC LAPIERRE³, JULIEN SEINTURIER⁴ 1: CNRS, France; 2: Cerege, Aix-Marseille Université; 3: AoROc, Paris; 4: LIS, Université de Toulon 3:15pm - 3:30pm Copernicus Climate data for heritage preservation in Malta Fabien CASTEL, Mael PLANTEC, Tarek HABIB Murmuration, France
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Coffee Break Location: James Cook meeting room
3:45pm - 5:15pm	Session - Climate and Awareness - Continued Location: Magellan meeting room Chair: Jolanda Patruno, European Space Agency Chair: Mario Hernandez, ISPRS 3:45pm - 4:00pm An integrated system for monitoring the effects of climate change on the monuments of Delos Ilias Fountoulakis¹, Ioannis Kapsomenakis¹, Nikolaos Melis², Anastasia Poupkou¹, Stavros Solomos¹, Christos Zerefos^1,3,4,5 1: Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, Academy of Athens, 79 Vasilissis Sofias str, 11521, Athens, Greece; 2: Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens, Lofos Nimfon, Thissio,118 10, Athens, Greece; 3: Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece; 4: Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences, Athens, Greece; 5: Navarino Environmental Observatory (N.E.O), Messenia, Greece 4:00pm - 4:15pm ANCIENT CITY OF GABII, HYDROGEOLOGICAL RISK IDENTIFIED BY REMOTE SENSING AND GEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS Emiliano Tondi¹, Jolanda Patruno², J. Manuel Delgado Blasco³, Marco Fabbri¹, Carlo Rosa⁴ 1: Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy; 2: European Space Agency, ESA; 3: University of Jaén, Jaén (Spain); 4: SIGEA, Rome, Italy 4:15pm - 4:30pm Detecting and Analysing Looting Activities using LiDAR and Machine Learning: the OPTIMAL Project Marco Fiorucci¹, Peter Naylor², Arianna Traviglia¹ 1: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy; 2: Φ-lab, European Space Agency, Italy 4:30pm - 4:45pm HEDAVI - Platform of visualisation & analysis for heritage data Serge Riazanoff, Guillaume Aurel Visioterra 4:45pm - 5:00pm Closing the knowledge gap - vocational training about EO services in cultural heritage preservation Karin Drda-Kühn media k GmbH, Germany 5:00pm - 5:15pm Enhancing Digital Geomedia Capabilities for UNESCO-designated sites: A Comprehensive Needs Assessment and Evaluation of Pilot Training Courses Kristina Hild¹, Maike Petersen¹, Lasse Grimmer¹, Alexander Siegmund^1,2 1: Heidelberg University of Education, Department of Geography - Research Group for Earth Observation (rgeo), Germany; 2: Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography & Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE), Germany
5:15pm - 6:30pm	Icebreaker

Date: Wednesday, 16/Oct/2024
9:00am - 9:15am	KEYNOTE SPEECH - REMOTE PRESENTATION Location: Magellan meeting room 9:00am - 9:15am Monitoring of World Heritage from Space: an overview of UNESCO’s initiatives - Remote Presentation Jyoti Hosagrahar UNESCO, France
9:15am - 10:15am	Session - Preserving and Preventing Location: Magellan meeting room Chair: Jolanda Patruno, European Space Agency Chair: Michela Corvino, European Space Agency 9:15am - 9:30am Preserving Cultural Heritage: AI-Driven Preventive Archaeology through Multi-Seasonal Remote Sensing Andrea Cavallini, Giovanni Martucci di Scarfizzi, Angie Catalina Carrillo Chappe, Marco Uccelli Starion Group, Italy 9:30am - 9:45am Earth observation data to determine the carrying capacity of tourism destinations Fabien CASTEL, Mael PLANTEC, Tarek HABIB Murmuration, France 9:45am - 10:00am Analysis of spectral anomalies in multitemporal and multispectral Sentinel-2 data for preventive archaeology: The case study of Telesia (Benevento, Southern Italy) Antonio Corbo Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy 10:00am - 10:15am Enhancing subsurface analysis of heritage sites with synergy of muon tomography and remote sensing. Noemi Zabari, Renata Bozek, Pawel Sopicki Muotech, Poland
10:15am - 10:45am	Coffee Break Location: James Cook meeting room
10:45am - 11:00am	KEYNOTE SPEECH Location: Magellan meeting room 10:45am - 11:00am Copernicus SESA: Protecting cultural heritage through satellite imagery Juan Escalante, Roberta Onori, Yannick Anraud SatCen
11:00am - 12:05pm	Session - Preserving and Preventing Location: Magellan meeting room Chair: Jolanda Patruno, European Space Agency Chair: Michela Corvino, European Space Agency 11:00am - 11:15am Monitoring and analysing archaeological destruction in Afghanistan using satellite imagery Charlotte Fafet, Titien Bartette, Jonathan Chemla, Mehraïl Saroufim Iconem, France 11:15am - 11:30am The ALCEO Project: Machine Learning and Remote Sensing for Looting Detection Gregory Sech, Riccardo Giovanelli, Giulio Poggi, Marco Fiorucci, Arianna Traviglia Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy 11:30am - 11:45am ESA GDA FCS Use Case 4- Land and Cultural Heritage grabbing in Ukraine - REMOTE PRESENTATION Lynn Dudenhoefer Hensoldt 11:45am - 12:05pm Q&A . . OC, Italy
12:05pm - 1:15pm	Φ-Experience, EVC and HMW More details about Φ-Experience
1:15pm - 2:30pm	Lunch
2:30pm - 2:45pm	KEYNOTE SPEECH Location: Magellan meeting room 2:30pm - 2:45pm Invited Talk Arianna Traviglia Istituto Italiano Tecnologia, Italy
2:45pm - 3:45pm	Session - New techniques Location: Magellan meeting room Chair: Jolanda Patruno, European Space Agency Chair: Arianna Traviglia, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 2:45pm - 3:00pm A Novel Machine Learning Automated Change Detection Tool for Monitoring Disturbances and Threats to Archaeological Sites Ahmed Mahmoud, Nichole Sheldrick University of Leicester, United Kingdom 3:00pm - 3:15pm AI-Driven Archaeological Prospection: Deep Learning in Optical Imagery Analysis Giulio Poggi¹, Andaleeb Yaseen^1,2, Gregory Sech¹, Marco Fiorucci¹, Arianna Traviglia¹ 1: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy; 2: Università Ca' Foscari 3:15pm - 3:30pm Monitoring of Cultural Heritage Assets in 3D+ Virtual Space, An Approach by Using AIDL4CH Tamer Özalp Researchturk Sapce Co., Turkiye 3:30pm - 3:45pm From the Low Earth Orbit to Cultural Heritage and the Horizon Europe MOXY Project: Tailored Cold Plasma-Generated Atomic Oxygen for Non-Contact Cleaning Sensitive Works of Art Tomas Markevicius¹, Nina Olsson^2,8, Anton Nikiforov¹, Klaas Jan van den Berg³, Bruce Banks⁴, Sharon Miller⁵, Ilaria Bonaduce⁶, Gianluca Pastorelli⁷ 1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: Nina Olsson Art Conservation, USA; 3: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 4: Science Applications International Corp. at NASA Glenn Research, USA; 5: NASA Glenn Research Center, USA; 6: University of Pisa, Italy; 7: National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark; 8: ICOMOS Lietuva, Lithuania
3:45pm - 4:15pm	Coffee Break Location: James Cook meeting room
4:15pm - 5:25pm	Session - ESA and Future Opportunities Location: Magellan meeting room 16:15 - 16:55 \| ESA Third Party and Copernicus contributing Missions - C. Manzo (ESA), The COSMO-SkyMed system: unique capabilities for managing Cultural Heritage needs - A. Flamini (e-GEOS), Change Monitoring over outdoor archaeological sites – a perspective from VHR Optical imagery - Monica Diez (Geosat) - REMOTE PRESENTATION 16:55 - 17:10 \| ESA Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions, Anna Burzykowska (ESA) REMOTE PRESENTATION 17:10 - 17:25 \| ESA Incubed - J. M. Delgado-Blasco (ESA)
5:25pm - 5:35pm	Conclusions from the organizers Location: Magellan meeting room