no code implementations • 2 Feb 2024 • Francesco Mauro, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Maria Pia Del Rosso, Paolo Gamba, Silvia Liberata Ullo
The use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has greatly advanced our capacity for comprehensive Earth monitoring, providing detailed insights into terrestrial surface use and cover regardless of weather conditions, and at any time of day or night.
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2024 • Francesco Mauro, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Bertrand Le Saux, Paolo Gamba, Silvia Liberata Ullo
This paper explores an innovative fusion of Quantum Computing (QC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the development of a Hybrid Quantum Graph Convolutional Neural Network (HQGCNN), combining a Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) with a Quantum Multilayer Perceptron (MLP).
no code implementations • 8 Jan 2024 • Francesca Razzano, Francesco Mauro, Pietro Di Stasio, Gabriele Meoni, Marco Esposito, Gilda Schirinzi, Silvia Liberata Ullo
For this, our study pioneers a novel approach to monitor the Turbidity contaminant, integrating CatBoost Machine Learning (ML) with high-resolution data from Sentinel-2 Level-2A.
no code implementations • 5 Jan 2024 • Luigi Russo, Francesco Mauro, Babak Memar, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Paolo Gamba, Silvia Liberata Ullo
Climate change is intensifying extreme weather events, causing both water scarcity and severe rainfall unpredictability, and posing threats to sustainable development, biodiversity, and access to water and sanitation.
no code implementations • 22 Aug 2023 • Mariapia Rita Iandolo, Francesca Razzano, Chiara Zarro, G. S. Yogesh, Silvia Liberata Ullo
The aim of this work is to perform a multitemporal analysis using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform for the detection of changes in urban areas using optical data and specific machine learning (ML) algorithms.
no code implementations • 22 Aug 2023 • Francesca Razzano, Mariapia Rita Iandolo, Chiara Zarro, G. S. Yogesh, Silvia Liberata Ullo
In this study, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical data are both considered for Earth surface classification.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2023 • Francesco Mauro, Luigi Russo, Fjoralba Janku, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Silvia Liberata Ullo
This study aims to analyse the Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) pollution in the Emilia Romagna Region (Northern Italy) during 2019, with the help of satellite retrievals from the Sentinel-5P mission of the European Copernicus Programme and ground-based measurements, obtained from the ARPA site (Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment).
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2023 • Chaoran Yin, Linjie Yan, Chengpeng Hao, Silvia Liberata Ullo, Gaetano Giunta, Alfonso Farina, Danilo Orlando
In this paper, we address the problem of classifying data within the radar reference window in terms of statistical properties.
no code implementations • 5 Feb 2023 • Veronica Wairimu Muriga, Benjamin Rich, Francesco Mauro, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Silvia Liberata Ullo
Climate change and increases in drought conditions affect the lives of many and are closely tied to global agricultural output and livestock production.
1 code implementation • 18 Jan 2023 • Francesco Mauro, Benjamin Rich, Veronica Wairimu Muriga, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Silvia Liberata Ullo
Climate change has caused disruption in certain weather patterns, leading to extreme weather events like flooding and drought in different parts of the world.
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2023 • Pia Addabbo, Nicomino Fiscante, Gaetano Giunta, Danilo Orlando, Giuseppe Ricci, Silvia Liberata Ullo
Hyperspectral target detection is a task of primary importance in remote sensing since it allows identification, location, and discrimination of target features.
1 code implementation • 20 Sep 2021 • Alessandro Sebastianelli, Daniela A. Zaidenberg, Dario Spiller, Bertrand Le Saux, Silvia Liberata Ullo
This article aims to investigate how circuit-based hybrid Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) can be successfully employed as image classifiers in the context of remote sensing.
no code implementations • 29 Jun 2021 • Maria Pia Del Rosso, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Dario Spiller, Pierre Philippe Mathieu, Silvia Liberata Ullo
In recent years, the growth of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms has raised the number of studies including their applicability in a variety of different scenarios.
1 code implementation • 23 Jun 2021 • Alessandro Sebastianelli, Artur Nowakowski, Erika Puglisi, Maria Pia Del Rosso, Jamila Mifdal, Fiora Pirri, Pierre Philippe Mathieu, Silvia Liberata Ullo
Cloud removal is a relevant topic in Remote Sensing as it fosters the usability of high-resolution optical images for Earth monitoring and study.
1 code implementation • 18 Jun 2021 • Alessandro Sebastianelli, Maria Pia Del Rosso, Pierre Philippe Mathieu, Silvia Liberata Ullo
Data fusion is a well-known technique, becoming more and more popular in the Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation (AI4EO) domain mainly due to its ability of reinforcing AI4EO applications by combining multiple data sources and thus bringing better results.
2 code implementations • 19 Apr 2021 • Alessandro Sebastianelli, Maria Pia Del Rosso, Silvia Liberata Ullo, Paolo Gamba
In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have become widespread in all the fields of remote sensing (RS) and earth observation (EO).
1 code implementation • 26 Jan 2021 • Daniela A. Zaidenberg, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Dario Spiller, Bertrand Le Saux, Silvia Liberata Ullo
This concept paper aims to provide a brief outline of quantum computers, explore existing methods of quantum image classification techniques, so focusing on remote sensing applications, and discuss the bottlenecks of performing these algorithms on currently available open source platforms.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2020 • Silvia Liberata Ullo, Amrita Mohan, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Shaik Ejaz Ahamed, Basant Kumar, Ramji Dwivedi, G. R. Sinha
This paper presents a novel method of landslide detection by exploiting the Mask R-CNN capability of identifying an object layout by using a pixel-based segmentation, along with transfer learning used to train the proposed model.
no code implementations • 10 Jul 2020 • Filippo Biondi, Pia Addabbo, Carmine Clemente, Silvia Liberata Ullo, Danilo Orlando
In this paper, authors propose a new procedure to provide a tool for monitoring critical infrastructures.