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session 8

Title: Expanding the Boundaries of Earth Observation
type: oral
Description: Expanding the boundaries of Earth Observation
Date: 2026-10-06
Time: 10:15
Room: Hall 35

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Shimrit Tirosh Maman, Israel Space Agency, Israel;
Co-Chair: Mr. Luís Ferreira, Airbus Defence and Space, Germany;
Co-Chair: Dr. Annamaria Nassisi, Thales Alenia Space Italia, Italy;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	Integrating Earth Observation and Multimodal Environmental Sensing for Climate-Related Health Monitoring: Early Outcomes from the VERACIS Initiative in Brazil	10	confirmed	Ms. Renata Prôa	Harvard University	United States
2	10:25	AI-Driven Detection of Pathogenic Bio-Signatures via Hyperspectral Anomaly Analysis for Global Bio-Security	10	confirmed	Mr. Kemal Kizilcay		Türkiye
3	10:35	Assessing the Spectral Threat of Urban Lighting to the TÜBİTAK National Observatory Using SDGSAT-1 Glimmer Data	10	confirmed	Ms. Sima Aydın	Ataturk University	Türkiye
4	10:45	Benchmarking Supervised Learning Algorithms for Mining Footprint Mapping: Balancing Accuracy, Computational Cost, and False Positive Rates	10	confirmed	Mr. Roberto Carlos Future Mendieta	Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Peru	Peru
5	10:55	Climate-Driven Monitoring of Pasture Ecosystems: Forecasting NDVI Dynamics from Sentinel-2 and Meteorological Time Series Using Hybrid Transformer–LSTM Architectures	10	confirmed	Dr. Farkhod Makhmudkhujaev	Uzbekspace Agency	Uzbekistan
6	11:05	A Two-Stage Space-AI Framework for Informal Settlement Mapping from VHR Satellite Imagery: The UN-Habitat Namibia Pilot	10		Dr. HONGWEI LI	STAR.VISION Aerospace Group Limited	China
7	11:15	Trusted Earth observation analytics for climate and infrastructure claims using cryptographic evidence chains	10	confirmed	Mr. Sylvester Kaczmarek	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
8	11:25	National Ecosystem Extent Mapping for Environmental-Economic Accounting Using Copernicus Data: Societal and Economic Applications in Poland	10	confirmed	Mr. Adam Waśniewski	Polish Space Agency (POLSA)	Poland
9	11:35	Monitoring and Characterization of Wildlife Migration Pattern Zones Using Commercial Earth Observation Systems for Conservation Decision-Support	10	confirmed	Mr. Dornald M Mhlanga	National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe)	Zimbabwe
10	11:45	Earth observation insights into maize-based cropping patterns and farmer decision-making Using DESIS Hyperspectral data	10		Ms. Charlynne Jepkosgei	Women In Space Kenya	Kenya
11	11:55	SaSCA – Satellite Scanning and Construction Analytics - SAR based construction tracking for large scale construction projects	10	confirmed	Mr. Roland Nemeth	Paulinyi & Partners Ltd.	Hungary