Conference Agenda

Session

Session 5 - Learning from Raw SAR Data and Onboard Processing

Time:

Tuesday, 12/May/2026:

4:15pm - 6:00pm

Session Chair: Nicolas Longepe, European Space Agency
Session Chair: Thibault Taillade, European Space Agency

Location: Big Hall

Presentations

4:15pm - 4:30pm
ID: 141

Learning from Raw SAR Data: AI-Based Vessel and RFI Detection with the OpenSAR Insight Dataset

MARIA-CORTES BENITO-ORTIZ¹, DAVID MATA-MOYA¹, Juan Manuel Cuerda Muñoz², Cristina Hiedra Priego², Marcos García Rodríguez², Anya Forestell³, Abdulhameed Yunusa³, Hamideh Kerdegari³, Giorgia Gobbi³, Daniel Dutra³, Natacha Fairburn³, Rohaan Ahmed³, Andrei-Lucian Alexe⁴, Bogdan-Gabriel Prisecariu⁴, Rares-Alexandru Ilie⁴, Roberto Del Prete⁵, Nicolas Longépé⁵

1: UNIVERSITY OF ALCALA, Spain; 2: Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Madrid, Spain; 3: Indra Deimos UK LTD, Oxford, United Kingdom; 4: Indra Deimos SRL, Bucharest, Romania; 5: ESA ϕ-lab, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

4:30pm - 4:45pm
ID: 129

AI-Based SAR Image Formation from Sentinel-1 Level-0 Data

Vito Moliterni, Andrea Cavallini, Estela Fernandez Valenzuela

Starion Group Italia S.p.A., Italy

4:45pm - 5:00pm
ID: 140

TOWER-CHECK: Toward On-Board SAR Damage Screening of Power Transmission Towers with a Chip-Based Processing Chain

Enrico Sain¹, Vito Fortunato¹, Cristoforo Abbattista¹, Leonardo Amoruso¹, Daniela Drimaco¹, Stefano Oliva¹, Robert Incze¹, Gennaro Mele¹, Raffaele Nutricato², Alessandro Parisi², Alberto Morea², Davide Oscar Nitti², Khalid Tijani², Mirko Di Noia², Filomena Ciola², Tommaso Di Noia³, Giuseppe Fasano³, Cataldo Guaragnella³, Francesco Giordano⁴, Alessandra Costantino⁴, Salvatore Cassano⁴, Alberto Bigazzi⁵, Maria Virelli⁵, Gianluca Pari⁵, Gabriele Mascetti⁵

1: Planetek Italia s.r.l., Italy; 2: Geophysical Applications Processing (GAP) s.r.l., Italy; 3: Politenico di Bari, Bari, Italy; 4: Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy; 5: Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, Italy

5:00pm - 5:15pm
ID: 142

AI-Enabled Detection of Transmission Tower Damage from Raw COSMO-SkyMed SAR Data

Alessandra Costantino¹, Francesco Giordano¹, Giuseppe Fasano², Tommaso Di Noia², Cataldo Guaragnella², Salvatore Cassano², Raffaele Nutricato³, Alessandro Parisi³, Alberto Morea³, Davide Oscar Nitti³, Mirko Di Noia³, Mimma Ciola³, Khalid Tijani³, Enrico Sain⁴, Vito Fortunato⁴, Stefano Oliva⁴, Leonardo Amoruso⁴, Cristoforo Abbattista⁴, Daniela Drimaco⁴, Robert Incze⁴, Gennaro Mele⁴, Alberto Bigazzi⁵, Gabriele Mascetti⁵, Gianluca Pari⁵, Maria Virelli⁵

1: University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy; 2: Politenico di Bari, Bari, Italy; 3: Geophysical Applications Processing (GAP) srl, Bari, Italy; 4: Planetek Italia, Bari, Italy; 5: Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, Italy

5:15pm - 5:30pm
ID: 115

AI-Driven Feature Classification in Level-0 SAR Data

Joe Callaghan¹, Sidra Aleem¹, Iain Keaney¹, Aubrey Dunne¹, Thibault Taillade²

1: Ubotica Ltd., Ireland; 2: ESA-ESRIN, Italy

5:30pm - 5:45pm
ID: 104

SAR-GONAUT: Optimizing AI-BAQ for Large-Scale Mission Scenarios

Nicola Gollin¹, Michele Martone¹, Luca Dell'Amore¹, Jose-Luis Bueso-Bello¹, Carolina Gonzalez¹, Bojarski Allan¹, Max Ghiglione², Paola Rizzoli¹

1: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany; 2: Radio Frequency Payloads and Technology Division, European Space Agency (ESA)

5:45pm - 6:00pm
ID: 103

Physics-Informed Deep Learning for SAR image focusing in view of onboard SAR applications

Paola Rizzoli, Federico Marangi, Luca Dell'Amore, Nicola Gollin, Michele Martone, Daniel Carcereri

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany