PROGRAM
Days: Monday, May 5th Tuesday, May 6th Wednesday, May 7th
Monday, May 5th
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09:00-09:30 Session 2: Opening and welcome session
Director of Sup'com - Pr Ridha Bouallegue
President of Univeristy of Carthage - Pr. Nadia Mzoughi
JURSE2025 General chair - Pr. Riadh Abdelfattah
JURSE2025 Steering Committee - Monika Kuffer and Hannes Taubenboeck
JURSE 2025 ESA - Francesca Elisa Leonelli
Chairs:
Location: Room Didon 3
09:30-10:30 Session 3: KeyNote 1
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 09:30 | The Urban Landscape Evolution of Greater Tunis: From the Role of Plants to AI Challenges for a More Resilient City |
10:30-11:00 Session 4: Break & networking
Break & networking
11:00-12:40 Session 5A: Special session :GeoAI in support of Sustainable Urban Development in the Global South
Special Session
Chairs:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 11:00 | BEAM: A Machine Learning Tool for Building Footprint Extraction in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa (abstract) |
| 11:20 | Mapping Deprived Urban Areas with an Optimized Loss-weight Feature-guided Deep Learning Model (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Mapping Indicators for Morphological Informality in Nairobi, Kenya Using Satellite Imagery (abstract) |
| 12:00 | AI and EO for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals: SmartSDGTunisia as a Case Study (abstract) |
11:00-12:40 Session 5B: Urban Change Detection and Environmental Impact
Normal Oral Session
Chairs:
Location: Room Didon 2
| 11:00 | Assessing the impact of climate change on desertification in Africa: A comparative analysis and projections based on CMIP6 (abstract) |
| 11:20 | Estimating ecosystem services of urban trees based on remote sensing and in-situ measurements: A comparative study in Munich, Germany (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Greening and browning of Greek cities using pixel dichotomy on Landsat data cubes (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Urbanization, Economic Development, and Environmental Quality: Insights from Urban Growth Dynamics and NO2 Pollution in Megacities (abstract) |
| 12:20 | The relation of LST and trees across different urban land use based on remote sensing (abstract) |
| 12:40 | Marine Mucilage Monitoring of the Adriatic Sea With Perturbed Linear Mixing Model (abstract) |
14:00-15:00 Session 7: Keynote 2
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 14:00 | Mapping the heterogeneity within urban areas |
15:00-16:00 Session 8: Poster Session
Chair:
| 15:00 | Comparative Analysis of Image Classification Algorithms for Land Use/Land Cover Mapping in Ibadan Metropolis, Nigeria (abstract) |
| 15:01 | A Decade of Three-Dimensional Urban Change: Unsupervised Changepoint-Driven Post-Processing for Satellite-Based Building Height Predictions (abstract) |
| 15:02 | Urban Remote Sensing Image Super Resolution based on Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models and Generative Adversarial Networks (abstract) |
| 15:03 | Methodological Advances in Urban Remote Sensing: Machine Learning for Geological Mapping (abstract) |
| 15:04 | Spatio-temporal analysis of the relationship between vegetation and air pollutant concentration in Algeria (abstract) |
| 15:05 | Multi-layer Domain Generalization for the Semantic Segmentation of Optical Remote Sensing Images (abstract) |
| 15:06 | DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE WEB MAPPING SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND MITIGATING URBAN HEAT ISLANDS: A CASE STUDY OF ORAN, TLEMCEN, AND CHLEF (abstract) |
| 15:07 | HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE FUSION BASED ON SPECTRAL LIBRARY AND SPARSE UNMIXING TO ADDRESS SPECTRAL VARIABILITY (abstract) |
| 15:08 | Towards Explainable AI for Binary Change Detection in Satellite Images (abstract) |
| 15:09 | Energy Transition and ICT: Pathways Toward Sustainable Urban Future (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Combining satellite data for an effective and continuous mapping of floods (abstract) |
| 15:11 | Mining-Driven Settlement Dynamics: Evidence from the Cobalt Belt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (abstract) |
| 15:12 | Extraction of built space and analysis of urbanization dynamics from processing of satellite images within a medium-sized city: Case of Jendouba (abstract) |
| 15:13 | Urban Wastewater Mapping Using Sentinel-2 Data (abstract) |
16:00-16:30 Session 9: Break & networking
Break & networking
16:30-18:30 Session 10A: Special session : Multimodal and multitemporal data fusion for urban analysis
Special Session: Multimodal and multitemporal data fusion for urban analysis:Methods, Applications and Explainability
Chairs:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 16:30 | Self-supervised Change Detection via Cooperative Learning: A Two-Player Model (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Transfer Land Cover Maps Across Years: A Time Series-based Semantic Segmentation Approach (abstract) |
| 17:10 | The effect of building heights on the relationship of NDVI and GVI: A case study in Athens, Greece. (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Urban trees species classification using Sentinel-2 and Planetscope satellite image time series (abstract) |
| 17:50 | Simulating Intra-day Extreme Temperature Variation and Efficiency of Cooling Strategy with WRF and satellite data-a case of Dhaka (abstract) |
16:30-18:30 Session 10B: AI and Machine Learning for Urban Analysis
Oral Session
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 2
| 16:30 | GDP Estimation using a Deep Learning Fusion Model for Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data (abstract) |
| 16:50 | Urban extraction based on the Machine learning and the eigenvalue/eigenvector PolSAR decomposition (abstract) |
| 17:10 | Digital Traces of Urban Heat: Social Media, Temperature, and Urban Morphology (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Cross-Regional and Interpretable Marine Mucilage Monitoring Using Spectral Indices and SHAP (abstract) |
| 17:50 | Assessing machine learning algorithms for retrieving soil moisture from a semi-arid region using a synthetic database (abstract) |
| 18:10 | Towards Using Synthetic Data in Aerial Image Segmentation (abstract) |
Tuesday, May 6th
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08:30-09:00 Session 11: Registration
Registration
09:00-10:00 Session 12: Keynote 3
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 09:00 | Advancing Urban Insights and Planetary Health: The Transformative Power of AI and Deep Learning in Earth Observation |
10:00-10:30 Session 13: Keynote 4
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 10:00 | WorldView Legion's Capabilities for Urban Remote Sensing |
10:30-11:00 Session 14: break & networking
Break & networking
11:00-12:30 Session 15: 2 min Pitches and Poster Session
1' pitches + poster session
Location: Room Didon 3
| 11:00 | Simulation of urban temperatures from very high resolution satellite imagery (abstract) |
| 11:03 | Integrating Laser Scanning and Aerial Photogrammetry for Architectural Surveying (abstract) |
| 11:06 | Spatial Accessibility in Transition: Evaluating Urban Growth and Service Distribution in Westhoek, Belgium (abstract) |
| 11:09 | Deep multi-view learning leveraging spectral-spatial Gabor features for hyperspectral image unmixing (abstract) |
| 11:12 | A Comparative Domain Generalization Study for SAR Image-Based Flood Segmentation (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Satellite-based fine-grained spatio-temporal monitoring of urban building activities as an indicator of economic development (abstract) |
| 11:18 | Integrating Remote Sensing with Urban Exposome Analysis for Cardiovascular Health in Germany (abstract) |
| 11:21 | Urban Tree Detection: Comparing YOLOv8 and DeepForest for Accurate Single-Tree Identification from Aerial Imagery (abstract) |
| 11:24 | Development Strategy: Sfax Smart City (abstract) |
| 11:27 | Urban remote sensing for sustainable development goals: case of Gabes region of Tunisia (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Enhancing pedestrian detection in urban areas using high-resolution satellite imagery and CNN Models (abstract) |
| 11:33 | Towards large-scale backcasting of urban built-up surface estimates to 1950 by integrating earth observation data and multimodal geospatial data (abstract) |
| 11:36 | Nationwide classification of settlements types using expert knowledge, remote sensing, and open data (abstract) |
| 11:39 | Coupling urbanization analyses and seasonal variations for studying urban thermal environment based on Landsat data, case of Oran in Algeria (abstract) |
| 11:42 | Sensing the Environment Using a Cargo Bike (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Mapping Aritificial Intelligence Innovations in Climate Change Research: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions (abstract) |
14:00-15:40 Session 17A: Special session : Urban Applications Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Special session
Chairs:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 14:00 | BUILT-UP AREA CHARACTERIZATION: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR DUAL-POL SENTINEL-1 SAR DATA (abstract) |
| 14:20 | Automatic Extraction of Urban Areas Using Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Images (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Gradient Descent GLRT Detector for Urban Tomographic SAR Applications (abstract) |
| 15:00 | A Quantum-assisted Attention U-Net for Building Segmentation over Tunis using Sentinel-1 Data (abstract) |
| 15:20 | Building Height Estimation from COSMO-SkyMed Imagery through Deep Learning Methods (abstract) |
14:00-15:40 Session 17B: Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques and AI Innovations
Normal Oral Session
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 2
| 14:00 | Mapping urban scene elements optical properties using a gradient-driven 3D radiative transfer model (abstract) |
| 14:20 | Detecting temporal evolutions in 3D lidar point clouds: an operational approach (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Detection of Single Scatterers in SAR Tomography using Multi-GPU Platforms (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Domain generalized remote sensing scene captioning via country-level geographic information (abstract) |
15:30-18:00 Cultural tour Carthage / Cathedral
Cultural tour Carthage / Cathedral
19:00-22:00 Gala Dinner
Gala Dinner
Wednesday, May 7th
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09:00-09:30 Session 18: Registration
Registration
09:30-10:30 Session 19: Keynote 5
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 09:30 | Projecting Africa’s Urban Expansion: implications for planning, governance and financing |
11:00-12:40 Session 21A: Special session : Urban Deprived Area Settlement Mapping
Special Session
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 11:00 | Towards Consistent and Robust Slum Detection Using Multi-year Satellite Data (abstract) |
| 11:20 | Towards a Spatial Measure of SDG 11.1.1: Open Data for Urban Deprivation Mapping (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Comparative Analysis of Manual Slum Identification Using Satellite Data: A Case Study of Medellin, Colombia (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Evaluating the Ability to Map the Degree of Informality within a City using a Scalable, Machine Learning Methodology in Nairobi, Kenya (abstract) |
| 12:20 | Measuring change and location of informal settlements at a national level: The Argentinian case (abstract) |
11:00-12:40 Session 21B: Risk Assessment and Resilience in Urban Areas
Normal Oral Session
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 2
| 11:00 | Instance Segmentation of Informal Buildings in Medellín for Assessing Population at Risk from Landslides (abstract) |
| 11:20 | The SPACE4ALL Project: Accounting for the Hazard Exposure of the Urban Poor: Combining Remote Sensing and Citizen Science (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Characterization of agricultural cultivation areas between 2019-2023 in war zones of Eastern Ukraine using Sentinel-2 data (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Large scale exploitation of satellite data for the assessment of urban surface temperatures (abstract) |
14:00-16:00 Session 23A: Pr. Rached Boussema Student Contest - Methodological Session
Pr. Rached Boussema Student Contest - Methodological Session 1
Chairs:
Location: Room Didon 3
| 14:00 | PolyRoof: Precision Roof Polygonization in Urban Residential Building with Graph Neural Networks (abstract) |
| 14:20 | LLM-Driven Data Augmentation for Visual Question Answering (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Very High- to High- Resolution Imagery Transferability for Building Damage Detection Using Generative AI (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Street2GIS: Multimodal Generative Framework for Pedestrian Infrastructure Mapping (abstract) |
| 15:20 | Remote Sensing for Building Energy Efficiency Assessment: A Multi-modal Multi-task Approach (abstract) |
| 15:40 | AI-based Identification and Change Detection of Oil/Gas Well Sites from Satellite Imagery (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Resolution Matters: Deep Learning Models for Slum Segmentation in Satellite Imagery (abstract) |
14:00-16:00 Session 23B: Pr. Rached Boussema Student Contest - Applied Session
Pr. Rached Boussema Student Contest - Applied Session 2
Chairs:
Location: Room Didon 2
| 14:00 | The uneven distribution of morphological diversity: A global investigation on intra-urban forms (abstract) |
| 14:20 | Urban Infrastructure at Risk: Assessing Landslide Impacts (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Spatial delineations of cities based on web content and built-up age – a case study on North African growth poles from 2010 to 2020 (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Assessing the x-minuteness for different urban structural types in Berlin, Germany (abstract) |
| 15:20 | The Relationship Between Urban Morphology and the Citizens' Social Media Footprints: A case study on Tokyo (abstract) |
| 15:40 | Assessment of Urban Heat Structure in Morocco (abstract) |
16:30-17:00 Session 25: Closing Session - Student Contest Results Announcement - JURSE'27 announcement
Student Contest Results Announcement
JURSE'27 announcement
Chair:
Location: Room Didon 3