Program | JURSE 2023 - Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event

Tuesday May 16
8.30-9.00	Registration
9.00-10.30	Tutorial 1. Google Earth Engine (Seminar Room A) - Noel Gorelick (Google)	Tutorial 2. EnMAP-Box (Seminar Room B) - Andreas Janz (Humboldt University of Berlin)
10.30-11.00	Break
11.00-12.30	Tutorial 1. Google Earth Engine (Seminar Room A) - Noel Gorelick (Google)	Tutorial 2. EnMAP-Box (Seminar Room B) - Andreas Janz (Humboldt University of Berlin)
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.30	Tutorial 3. DART model (Seminar Room A) - Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry (CESBIO)	Tutorial 4. Geohazards Exploitation Platform (Seminar Room B) - Michael Foumelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.30	Tutorial 3. DART model (Seminar Room A) - Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry (CESBIO)	Tutorial 4. Geohazards Exploitation Platform (Seminar Room B) - Michael Foumelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
17.30-19.00	Ice Breaker	Registration
Wednesday May 17
8.30-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.30	Opening and Welcome Session (Concert Hall)
9.30-10.30	Advancing AI for Urban Sustainability (Concert Hall) - Gustau Camps-Valls (Universitat de València)
10.30-11.00	Break
11.00-12.30	Special Session 1. Deep learning approaches for multi-temporal and multi-modal data processing and analysis for urban areas (Concert Hall)	Session 1. Urban planning and socioeconomics (Experimental Stage)
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.30	Poster Session 1
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.15	Session 2. Urban form characterization and dynamics (Concert Hall)	Special Session 2. GeoAI for Monitoring Rapid Urbanization Processes (Experimental Stage)
17.15-19.30	Cultural Tour
Thursday May 18
8.30-9.00	Registration
9.00-10.00	Municipality of Heraklion towards the challenge of Sustainable Urban Development on the horizon of 2030 (Concert Hall) - Ioannis Anastasakis (Heraklion Municipality)
10.00-10.30	Call to contribute to the IPCC Special Report on Cities and Climate Change in the 7th Assessment Cycle (Concert Hall) - Karen Seto (Yale University)
10.30-11.00	Break
11.00-12.30	Poster Session 2
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.30	Student Contest Session 1 (Concert Hall)	Special Session 3. Urban Thermal Remote Sensing (Experimental Stage)
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.15	Student Contest Session 2 (Concert Hall)	Special Session 4. Urban Air Quality (Experimental Stage)
17.15-18.15	Climate resilient development in the city: Pathways and barriers identified in the IPCC WGII AR6 report (Concert Hall) - Lisa Schipper (University of Bonn)
18.15-19.00	Visit to HECMAS Flux Tower
19.00-22.00	Gala Dinner (incl. Student Contest Results Announcement)
Friday May 19
9.00-9.30	Registration
9.30-10.30	GEO's eye on the cities (Concert Hall) - Evangelos Gerasopoulos (National Observatory of Athens (NOA))
10.30-11.00	Break
11.00-12.30	Special Session 5. Urban remote sensing for the Global South (Concert Hall)	Special Session 6. Promoting Urban Resilience through Methodologies and Tools Deploying Earth Observation Data (Experimental Stage)
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.30	Session 3. New data, algorithms and techniques for urban remote sensing (Concert Hall)	Special Session 7. EO for integrated risk assessment, urban adaptation towards Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development (Experimental Stage)
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.15	Session 4. Urban climatology and ecology (Concert Hall)	Special Session 8. Future settlement growth modelling with EO products (Experimental Stage)
17.15-17.30	Closing Session (Concert Hall)

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Sessions

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Wednesday May 17

Special Session 1 - Deep learning approaches for multi-temporal and multi-modal data processing and analysis for urban areas (Wednesday May 17 | 11.00-12.30 | Place: Concert Hall)
Chairs: Jonathan Weber (Universite de Haute-Alsace) and Sylvain Lobry (Universite Paris Cite)

#	Authors	Title
12	Fahong Zhang (Technique University of Munich), Yilei Shi (Technique University of Munich), Zhitong Xiong (Technique University of Munich) and Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technique University of Munich)	Pseudo Features Guided Self-training for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation of Aerial Images
30	Romain Wenger (University of Strasbourg), Anne Puissant (University of Strasbourg), Jonathan Weber (University of Haute-Alsace), Lhassane Idoumghar (University of Haute-Alsace) and Germain Forestier (University of Haute-Alsace)	Exploring inference of a land use and land cover model trained on MultiSenGE dataset
47	Wen Zhou (ITC, University of Twente), Claudio Persello (ITC, University of Twente) and Alfred Stein (ITC, University of Twente)	Building Usage Classification Using a Transformer-based Multimodal Deep Learning Method
78	Sebastian Hafner (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Yifang Ban (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Andrea Nascetti (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)	Investigating Imbalances in SAR and Optical Utilization for Multi-Modal Urban Mapping
89	Alex Levering (Wageningen University & Research), Diego Marcos (Inria) and Devis Tuia (EPFL)	Time Series Analysis of Urban Liveability
100	Ilter Turkmenli (Gebze Technical University), Koray Kayabol (Gebze Technical University) and Erchan Aptoula (Sabancı University)	A SMOOTHING LAYER FOR SAR IMAGE SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION WITH FULLY CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORKS

Session 1 - Urban planning and socioeconomics (Wednesday May 17 | 11.00-12.30 | Place: Experimental Stage)
Chairs: Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Monika Kuffer (University of Twente)

#	Authors	Title
15	John Friesen (Technical University Darmstadt) and Oyutan Delger (Technical University Darmstadt)	Spatial Accessibility to Hospitals for Informal Settlement Dwellers in Three sub-Saharan Cities
91	Yrneh Zarit Ulloa Torrealba (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Dominik Neumayer (Munich University of Applied Sciences), Andreas Schmitt (Munich University of Applied Sciences) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Correlation between remotely sensed solid waste on streets and socioeconomic class of an urban area
95	Angela Wendnagel-Beck (University of Stuttgart), Ali Jamshed (University of Stuttgart), Nimra Iqbal (University of Stuttgart), Marvin Ravan (University of Stuttgart), Joanna McMillan (University of Stuttgart) and Jörn Birkmann (University of Stuttgart)	Exploring the link between socio-economic and physical structure in cities to inform heat adaptation options: the case of Stuttgart
104	Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen (Yale University), Henriette Thisted Horsdal (Aarhus University), Karl Samuelsson (University of Gävle), Ane Marie Closter (Aarhus University), Megan Davies (University of Copenhagen), Stephan Barthel (Stockholm University), Carsten Bøcker Pedersen (Aarhus University), Alexander V. Prishchepov (University of Copenhagen) and Clive E. Sabel (University of Canberra)	Association between three-dimensional urban form and depression
115	Ella McCoshan (University College London / Space Syntax Limited) and Kayvan Karimi (University College London / Space Syntax Limited)	Shining a light on Dar es Salaam - 1992 to 2020: utilizing nightlight intensity data as a tool for modelling rapid urban growth patterns

Poster Session 1 (Wednesday May 17 | 14.00-15.30)

#	Authors	Title
11	Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Lifeng Shi (China University of Mining and Technology), Tobias Leichtle (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Shihong Du (Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University) and Michael Wurm (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	The ‘ghost city’ phenomenon in China: mapping and categorization at intra-urban scale
13	Flavio Marzialetti (Molise University, Envix Lab, Department of Bioscience and Territory), Maria Laura Carranza (Molise University), Antonietta Sorriso (University of Pavia) and Paolo Gamba (University of Pavia)	Comparing SAR X and L bands to map the urban extent in a metropolis of South America. The potential of multitemporal data.
20	Katrin Krzepek (Technical University of Darmstadt), Michael Rudolf (Technical University of Darmstadt), Benjamin Homuth (Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology), Andreas Henk (Technical University of Darmstadt) and Dorota Iwaszczuk (Technical University of Darmstadt)	Raster Representation of Ground Motion Service Data and Automated Hot-Spot Detection
22	Alessandra Gandini (TECNALIA), Daniel Navarro (TECNALIA) and Efren Feliu (TECNALIA)	Identification and mapping of areas and buildings with high roof greening potential
26	Fan Fan (Technical University of Munich), Yilei Shi (Technical University of Munich) and Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technical University of Munich)	Urban Land Cover Classification from Sentinel-2 Images with Quantum-Classical Network
36	Yikai Yao (University of Waterloo), Sarah Fatholahi (University of Waterloo), Yiping Chen (Sun Yat-sen University) and Jonathan Li (University of Waterloo)	Indoor LiDAR Point Clouds Upsampling for Object Detection Enhancement
38	Chahine-Nicolas Zede (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland) and Adrien Gressin (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)	Geolocation of a panoramic camera by reference pairing
40	Sasha Mullally (University of New Brunswick), Yun Zhang (University of New Brunswick), David Fraser (University of New Brunswick), William (Weilong) Liu (University of New Brunswick), Toni MacRae (University of New Brunswick) and Sean Cox (University of New Brunswick)	Development of a Deep Urban Time Series Using Historical Aerial Photos to Document the Evolution of Recreational Urban Spaces
41	Benjamin Palmaerts (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP)), Benjamin Beaumont (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP)), Dimitri Graur (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP)), Gérard Swinnen (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP)) and Eric Hallot (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP))	Oriented aircraft object detector using YOLOv4 on very high resolution satellite and synthetic datasets
42	Coraline Wyard (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP)), Hugo Fauvel (ENSTA Bretagne), Benjamin Palmaerts (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP)), Benjamin Beaumont (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP)) and Eric Hallot (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP))	From DL approach conception to operational product design : identifying roof materials for policy makers
48	Johannes Mast (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Marta Sapena (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Christian Geiß (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Linking remote sensing data and online engagement in flood events in Nigeria
51	Andreas Braun (University of Tübingen), Oliver Assmann (AT Verband), Gebhard Warth (University of Tübingen), Christian Khouri ( University of Tübingen), Michael Schultz (University of Tübingen) and Volker Hochschild (University of Tübingen)	Urban structures retrieved by satellite imagery correlate with socio-economic household data. Insights from the City of Kigali, Rwanda
54	Friedemann Roy (International Finance Corporation)	Climate change will exacerbate demographic challenges for urban planners
55	Yajin Xu (German Aerospace Center), Philipp Schuegraf (German Aerospace Center) and Ksenia Bittner (German Aerospace Center)	Vertex Aided Building Polygonization from Satellite Imagery Applying Deep Learning
59	Yue Zeng (Technical University of Munich), Jianhua Guo (Technical University of Munich) and Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technical University of Munich)	Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Urban Green Space and the Impact on Land Surface Temperature of Beijing, China
62	Dorothee Stiller (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Thomas Stark (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Verena Strobl (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Maike Leupold (Federal Statistical Office Germany (Destatis)), Michael Wurm (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Efficiency of CNNs for Building Extraction: Comparative Analysis of Performance and Time
64	Xiangyu Zhuo (German Aerospace Center), Jiaojiao Tian (German Aerospace Center) and Karl-Heinz Häfele (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)	Direct Window-to-Wall Ratio Prediction Using Deep Learning Approaches
87	Michael Foumelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh)), Jose Manuel Delgado Blasco (Universidad de Jaén), Elena Papageorgiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh)), Fabrizio Pacini (Terradue s.r.l.) and Philippe Bally (European Space Agency)	Nationwide Monitoring of Urban Surface Motion in Greece using GEP SNAPPING Online Service
120	David Parastatidis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)) and Nektarios Chrysoulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH))	RSLab Global Land Surface Albedo from MODIS

Session 2 - Urban form characterization and dynamics (Wednesday May 17 | 16.00-17.15 | Place: Concert Hall)
Chairs: Anne Puissant (University of Strasbourg) and Clément Mallet (Univ. Gustave Eiffel, IGN, ENSG)

#	Authors	Title
9	Qingyu Li (Technical University of Munich), Yao Sun (Technical University of Munich), Lichao Mou (Technical University of Munich), Yilei Shi (Technical University of Munich) and Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technical University of Munich)	Semi-supervised segmentation of individual buildings from SAR imagery
29	Ines Standfuß (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Matthias Weigand (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Monika Gähler (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Antonia Milbert (Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)), Fabian Dosch (Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)), Silas Eichfuss (Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)), Nikola Sander (Federal Institute for Population Research (BIB)), Christian Geiß (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Categorizing urban areas into “core”, “fringe”, and “periphery” based on the built-up morphology
67	Yuxing Xie (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Jiaojiao Tian (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Multimodal Co-learning: A Domain Adaptation Method for Building Extraction from Optical Remote Sensing Imagery
74	Agnieszka Kuras (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Maximilian Brell (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences), Stian Teien (Capgemini), Ingunn Burud (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) and Thomas Thiis (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)	Feature-Level Based Hyperspectral and Lidar Data Fusion for Urban Analysis
77	Sébastien Gadal (Aix-Marseille University), Mounir Oukhattar (Aix-Marseille University) and Solomon Abody Otobo (Aix-Marseille University)	Multi-temporal recognition of built-up area and land cover changes using machine learning approach in the Metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence in France

Special Session 2 - GeoAI for Monitoring Rapid Urbanization Processes (Wednesday May 17 | 16.00-17.15 | Place: Experimental Stage)
Chairs: Claudio Persello (University of Twente) and Monika Kuffer (University of Twente)

#	Authors	Title
19	Yunyu Tian (Wageningen University), Nandin-Erdene Tsendbazar (Wageningen University), Eveline van Leeuwen (Wageningen University) and Martin Herold (Wageningen University)	Unraveling global multifaceted urbanization-land-energy-air nexus based on Earth Observation
70	Thomas Stark (Technical University of Munich (TUM)), Michael Wurm (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technical University Munich (TUM)), and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Detecting challenging urban environments using a few-shot meta-learning approach
86	Michele Melchiorri (European Commission Joint Research Centre) and Thomas Kemper (European Commission Joint Research Centre)	Establishing an operational and continuous monitoring of global built-up surfaces with the Copernicus Global Human Settlement Layer
94	Angela Abascal (University of Twente), Christopher Kyba (Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum), Franz Hölker (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries), Monika Kuffer (University of Twente), Hector Linares Arroyo (Stars4all Foundation), Ken Walczak (Adler Planetarium), Alejandro S. De Miguel (Stars4all Foundation), Tobias Degen (Community and Ecosystem Ecology) and Miguel O. Roman (Leidos Company)	Mapping the Invisibles: Global Urban Inequalities through Night Lights
102	Jeroen Staab (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Thomas Stark (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Michael Wurm (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Kathrin Wolf (German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU)), Marco Dallavalle (German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU)), Arthur Schady (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Tobia Lakes (Humboldt-University Berlin) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Using CNNs on Sentinel-2 data for road traffic noise modelling

Thursday May 18

Poster Session 2 (Thursday May 18 | 11.00-12.30)

#	Authors	Title
23	Basile Rousse (Université Paris Cité), Sylvain Lobry (Université Paris Cité), Géraldine Duthé (French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)), Valérie Golaz (French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)) and Laurent Wendling (Université Paris Cité)	Seasonal semi-supervised domain adaptation for linking population studies and Local Climate Zones
30	Romain Wenger (University of Strasbourg), Anne Puissant (University of Strasbourg), Jonathan Weber (University of Haute-Alsace), Lhassane Idoumghar (University of Haute-Alsace) and Germain Forestier (University of Haute-Alsace)	Exploring inference of a land use and land cover model trained on MultiSenGE dataset
56	Isabelle Tingzon (Technical University of Munich), James Matthew Miraflor (University of the Philippines Diliman), Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technical University of Munich) and Mrinalini Kochupillai (Technical University of Munich)	Towards Impactful Applications of AI4EO in the Global South
65	Wufan Zhao (ITC, University of Twente), Claudio Persello (ITC, University of Twente), Hu Ding (South China Normal University) and Alfred Stein (ITC, University of Twente)	Learning General Representations for Semantic Segmentation and Height Estimation from Remote Sensing Images
68	Katarzyna Goch (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Martino Pesaresi (European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)), Christina Corbane (European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)), Panagiotis Politis (Arhs Developments S.A.) and Thomas Kemper (European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC))	Multiple regression model for estimating vertical characteristics of built-up areas at 100 m resolution from open and global Digital Elevation Models
71	Antoine Masse (Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS)), Angelo Amodio (Planetek Italia), Luca Congedo (Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)), Sadri Haouet (Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS)), Vito De Pasquale (Planetek Italia), Annagrazia Calò (Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)), Amaury Truffier (Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS)), Loïc Faucqueur (Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS)), Marco Montella (Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)), Diana Bianchini (Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)) and Alberto Albanese (Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA))	Innovative Soil Sealing products around the Mediterranean sea
72	Michael Wurm (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Raphael Tubbesing (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Thomas Stark (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Marlene Kühnl (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Marta Sapena (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Wolfgang Sulzer (University of Graz) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Revealing landslisde exposure of informal settlements in Medellín using Deep Learning
83	Qiaosi Li (University of Glasgow) and Qunshan Zhao (University of Glasgow)	Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds in Hong Kong Urban Areas
85	Jairo Acuna Paz y Miño (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour), Inès de Bort (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour) and Benoit Beckers (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)	Image-based measurement of clear sky radiation distribution from 0 to 5000 meters above sea level
91	Yrneh Zarit Ulloa Torrealba (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Dominik Neumayer (Munich University of Applied Sciences), Andreas Schmitt (Munich University of Applied Sciences) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Correlation between remotely sensed solid waste on streets and socioeconomic class of an urban area
98	Blewa Kehounbiova Audrey Tohoun (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL)), Marta Sapena (Earth Observation Center, German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Johannes Mast (Earth Observation Center, German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Ibrahim Haruna (Federal University of Technology, Minna), Vincent Orekan (Department of Geography, University of Abomey-Calavi) and Appollonia A. Okhimamhe (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL))	Are citizens’ perceptions on urban green spaces influenced by their immediate environment? the case of Grand Nokoue, Benin Republic
99	Aya Otahara (Hosei University) and Hiroshi Hanaizumi (Hosei University)	An Improved Method for Analyzing Three-Dimensional Human Walking
103	Mario Al Sayah (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering), Didier Soto (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering ), Rachid Nedjai (Université d'Orléans), Karim Selouane (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering), Nicolas Ziv (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering) and Philippe Sohouenou (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering)	On the use of remote sensing and modeling techniques for urban heat detection, an operational study
106	Sofia Peleli (Hellenic Mediterranean University Research Center), Maria Kouli (Hellenic Mediterranean University Research Center) and Filippos Vallianatos (Hellenic Mediterranean University Research Center)	Thermal anomalies and crustal deformation related to the November 26, 2019, Albania (Durrës) earthquake
110	Christian Bignami (National Earthquakes Observatory), Cristiano Tolomei (National Earthquakes Observatory) and Stefano Salvi (National Earthquakes Observatory)	The contribution of InSAR deformation time series for geohazard in urban environment for HARMONIA project
111	Aleksandra Łęczek (Institute of Urban and Regional Development) and Wojciech Łachowski (Institute of Urban and Regional Development)	The impact of the impervious surfaces and the condition of vegetation on the land surface temperature in urban centers on the example of Wloclawek, Poland

Student Contest Session 1 (Thursday May 18 | 14.00-15.30 | Place: Concert Hall)
Chairs: Clément Mallet (Univ. Gustave Eiffel, IGN, ENSG) and Monika Kuffer (University of Twente)

#	Authors	Title
5	Soukaina Tayi (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) and Hassan Radoine (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University)	Mapping built-up area: combining Radar and Optical Imagery using Google Earth Engine
10	Fengxiang Guo (UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) and Uwe Schlink (UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research)	A nationwide dataset of building features for Germany
14	Qipeng Mei (Technical University of Darmstadt), Lina E. Budde (Technical University of Darmstadt) and Dorota Iwaszczuk (Technical University of Darmstadt)	Polygon-based mapping of photovoltaic systems and estimation of energy generation potential
23	Basile Rousse (Université Paris Cité), Sylvain Lobry (Université Paris Cité), Géraldine Duthé (French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)), Valérie Golaz (French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)) and Laurent Wendling (Université Paris Cité)	Seasonal semi-supervised domain adaptation for linking population studies and Local Climate Zones
33	Michael Recla (University of the Bundeswehr Munich) and Michael Schmitt (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)	From Relative to Absolute Heights in SAR-based Single-Image Height Prediction

Special Session 3 - Urban Thermal Remote Sensing (Thursday May 18 | 14.00-15.30 | Place: Experimental Stage)
Chairs: Zina Mitraka (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)) and Will Morrison (Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg)

#	Authors	Title
17	Laure Roupioz (Universite de Toulouse), Auline Rodler (BPE/LOCIE), Sihem Guernouti (BPE/LOCIE), Ahmad Al Bitar (Universite de Toulouse), Laurent Poutier (Universite de Toulouse), Xavier Briottet (Universite de Toulouse), Françoise Nerry (Universite de Strasbourg) and Marjorie Musy (BPE/LOCIE)	Monitoring LST at canyon scale for urban micro-climate applications: in-situ, simulation and airborne data comparisons
53	Panagiotis Sismanidis (Ruhr University Bochum), Benjamin Bechtel (Ruhr University Bochum), Iphigenia Keramitsoglou (National Observatory of Athens), Zihan Liu (Nanjing University) and Wenfeng Zhan (Nanjing University)	The Intensity of Surface Urban Heat Islands in the Global North during the COVID-19 Lockdowns
63	Leonie Krelaus (Ruhr-University Bochum), Joy Apfel (Ruhr-University Bochum), Benjamin Bechtel (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Panagiotis Sismanidis (Ruhr-University Bochum)	Surface and canopy-layer urban heat island intensities in Europe – Quantifying differences in the diurnal cycle for three summer periods
96	Maria Gkolemi (RSLab/FORTH), Zina Mitraka (RSLab/FORTH) and Nektarios Chrysoulakis (RSLab/FORTH)	Local scale surface temperature estimation by downscaling satellite thermal infrared observations using neural networks
107	George Kalogeropoulos (Democritus University of Thrace), Nerantzia-Julia Tzorzi (Politecnico di Milano) and Argiro Dimoudi (Democritus University of Thrace)	Remote Sensing and In-situ Data Analysis for the Urban Heat Island Effect and Land Surface Temperature in the Vertical Forest area (‘Bosco Verticale’), in Milan city
122	Hoi Kay So (National University of Singapore) and Matthias Roth (National University of Singapore)	Seasonal and diurnal variation of urban park surface temperatures and park cooling effects in different cities

Student Contest Session 2 (Thursday May 18 | 16.00-17.15 | Place: Concert Hall)
Chairs: Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Nektarios Chrysoulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH))

#	Authors	Title
37	Hiba Hamdi (Kermap), Laure Roupioz (Universite de Toulouse), Thomas Corpetti (CNRS), Xavier Briottet (Universite de Toulouse) and Antoine Lefebvre (Kermap)	Evaluation of Urban Weather Generator for air temperature and urban heat islands simulation over Toulouse (France)
49	Patricia Glocke (Ruhr-University Bochum), Benjamin Bechtel (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Panagiotis Sismanidis (Ruhr-University Bochum)	Impacts of Altered Human Activities due to COVID 19 Lockdown on Air Pollutants and Land Surface Temperatures across European Cities
50	Louis Newman (Université Paris-Saclay), Flora Weissgerber (Université Paris-Saclay), Aurelien Plyer (Université Paris-Saclay) and Elise Colin (Université Paris-Saclay)	Advantages of Polarimetry and Interferometry for Semantic Segmentation of Urban SAR Images with Consideration of the Layover
58	Qingsong Xu (Technical University Munich), Yilei Shi (Technical University Munich) and Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technical University Munich)	UCDFormer: Unsupervised Change Detection Using Real-time Transformers
119	Giannis Lantzanakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Dimitris Tsirantonakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Nektarios Chrysoulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Sue Grimmond (University of Reading), Andreas Christen (University of Freiburg) and Joern Birkmann (University of Stuttgart)	Initial development of the urbisphere urban hyperspectral library: Berlin, Germany

Special Session 4 - Urban Air Quality (Thursday May 18 | 16.00-17.15 | Place: Experimental Stage)
Chairs: Thilo Erbertseder (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Lorenza Gilardi (German Aerospace Center (DLR))

#	Authors	Title
69	Ellen Banzhaf (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ), Isabelle Bause (BayWa r.e. Solar Projects GmbH), Carolin Helbig (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ) and Sebastian Elze (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ)	Personal exposure to environmental stressors in different urban residential structures. Linking fieldwork and RS mapping
108	Thilo Erbertseder (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Thomas Esch (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Lorenza Gilardi (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Heiko Paeth (University of Würzburg), Mattia Marconcini (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Stefan Dech (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Earth Observation-based analysis of NO2 air pollution and settlement growth in megacities
112	Lorenza Gilardi (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Ehsan Khorsandi (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Thilo Erbertseder (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Global Air Pollution Data for Health Risk Assessments in Lombardy, Italy
113	Eleni Athanasopoulou (National Observatory of Athens), Anastasia Kakouri (National Observatory of Athens), Dimitris Karagiannis (National Observatory of Athens), Orestis Speyer (National Observatory of Athens), Georgios Grivas (National Observatory of Athens) and Evangelos Gerasopoulos (National Observatory of Athens)	Enhancing air quality data from multiple platforms towards geospatial health-related information in the intra-urban environment
121	Konstantinos Politakos (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Stavros Stagakis (University of Basel), Christian Feigenwinter (University of Basel), Matthias Roth (University of Singapore) and Nektarios Chrysoulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH))	Dynamic changes in urban form and function affect Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in a Mediterranean city

Friday May 19

Special Session 5 - Urban remote sensing for the Global South (Friday May 19 | 11.00-12.30 | Place: Concert Hall)
Chairs: Angela Abascal (University of Twente) and Stefanos Georganos (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

#	Authors	Title
4	John Friesen (Technical University Darmstadt), Nicolas J. Kraff (Technical University Darmstadt) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center and University of Würzburg)	Spatiotemporal dynamics of slum populations in Caracas, Venezuela
16	Job Rosier (VU Amsterdam), Jasper van Vliet (VU Amsterdam) and Vita Bakker (VU Amsterdam)	Mapping intra-urban development trajectories in Nairobi, Kenya
46	Marta Sapena (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Justice N. Inkoom (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Emmanuel T. Umaru (WASCAL CCHH), Johannes Mast (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Appollonia A. Okhimamhe (WASCAL CCHH) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Integrating multi-source remote sensing data for monitoring urban development in West Africa
57	Julien Govoorts (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Taïs Grippa (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Sabine Vanhuysse (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Eléonore Wolff (Université Libre de Bruxelles)	Mapping urban deprivation from Sentinel 1/2 using artificial intelligence and weakly labelled data
76	Sebastian Hafner (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Stefanos Georganos (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Theodomir Mugiraneza (University of Rwanda) and Yifang Ban (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)	Mapping Urban Population Growth from Sentinel-2 MSI and Census Data using Deep Learning: A Case Study in Kigali, Rwanda
101	Monika Kuffer (ITC, University of Twente), Inas M. M. Ali (Independent Consultant), Asgad Gummah (Ministry of Social Development), André da Silva Mano (ITC, University of Twente), Wafa Sakhi (Sudan Urban Development Think Tank), Ibrahim Kushieb (Ministry of Social Development), Serkan Girgin (ITC, University of Twente), Nuha Eltiny (Sudan Urban Development Think Tank), Julia Kumi (Ministry of Social Development), Mosub Abdallah (Ministry of Physical Planning), Maysoon Bad (Sudan Urban Development Think Tank), Fatima Ahmed (Ministry of Transport), Mustafa Hamza (Ministry of Physical Planning), Jon Wang (ITC, University of Twente), Taha Elzaki (Ministry of Transport), Caroline Gevaert (ITC, University of Twente) and Charlotte Flasse (Université libre de Bruxelles)	IDeaMapSudan: Geo-Spatial Modelling of Urban Poverty

Special Session 6 - Promoting Urban Resilience through Methodologies and Tools Deploying Earth Observation Data (Friday May 19 | 11.00-12.30 | Place: Experimental Stage)
Chairs: Giorgos Somarakis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)) and David Ludlow (University of the West of England)

#	Authors	Title
3	Fumio Yamazaki (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience), Wen Liu (Chiba University) and Kei Horie (MS&AD InterRisk Research & Consulting, Inc.)	Extraction of collapsed buildings in Minami-Aso Village due to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake based on LiDAR data
73	David Ludlow (University of the West of England), Zaheer Khan (University of the West of England), Nektarios Chrysoulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas) and Zina Mitraka (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas)	Towards Digital-Twin solutions for the 15 minute city
75	Mattia Marconcini (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Thomas Esch (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Giorgos Somarakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Nektarios Chrysoulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)) and Zina Mitraka (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH))	Exploiting Copernicus Core Services for Assessing the Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity
82	Ivana Hlaváčová (GISAT s.r.o.), Jan Kolomazník (GISAT s.r.o.), Juraj Struhár (GISAT s.r.o.) and Erika Orlitová (GISAT s.r.o.)	InSAR Ground Motion Mapping in Support of Urban Resilience and Regional Landscape Planning
97	Nimra Iqbal (University of Stuttgart), Ayman Aslam (National University of Sciences and Technology), Ali Jamshed (University of Stuttgart), Marvin Ravan (University of Stuttgart), Jörn Birkmann (University of Stuttgart) and Irfan Ahmad Rana (National University of Sciences and Technology)	Assessment of the human heat vulnerability of different Local Climate Zones in Lahore: Coupling remote sensing and socioeconomic data
103	Mario Al Sayah (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering), Didier Soto (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering), Rachid Nedjai (Université d'Orléans), Karim Selouane (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering), Nicolas Ziv (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering) and Philippe Sohouenou (RESALLIENCE by SIXENSE Engineering)	On the use of remote sensing and modeling techniques for urban heat detection, an operational study

Session 3 - New Data, Algorithms and Techniques for Urban Remote Sensing (Friday May 19 | 14.00-15.30 | Place: Concert Hall)
Chairs: Sébastien Lefèvre (Université Bretagne Sud) and Laurent Caraffa (IGN)

#	Authors	Title
7	Zhenghang Yuan (Technical University of Munich), Lichao Mou (Technical University of Munich) and Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technical University of Munich)	Multilingual Augmentation for Robust Visual Question Answering in Remote Sensing Images
25	Sining Chen (Technical University of Munich), Yilei Shi (Technical University of Munich) and Xiao Xiang Zhu (Technical University of Munich)	Long-tailed Regression with Ensembles for Monocular Height Estimation from Single Remote Sensing Images
32	Sergio Vitale (University Parthenope of Naples), Giampaolo Ferraioli (University Parthenope of Naples), Wenyu Yang (University Parthenope of Naples), Gilda Schirinzi (University Parthenope of Naples) and Vito Pascazio (University Parthenope of Naples)	A multi-objective deep learning based approach for SAR image reconstruction in urban environment
43	Sara Akodad (CNES), Pierre Lassalle (CNES), Brunop Vallet (IGN), Etienne Le Bihan (IGN) and Pierre-Marie Brunet (CNES)	AI4GEO: LOD0 Generation for 3D building models
88	Xiangtian Yuan (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Jiaojiao Tian (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Thomas Krauß (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Xiangyu Zhuo (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Peter Reinartz (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Multi-layer Thematic Map Representation for Urban Understanding
116	Dimitris Poursanidis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Emmanouil Panagiotakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)) and Nektarios Chrysoulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH))	Sub-pixel Material Fraction Mapping in the UrbanScape using PRISMA Hyperspectral Imagery

Special Session 7 - EO for integrated risk assessment, urban adaptation towards Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development (Friday May 19 | 14.00-15.30 | Place: Experimental Stage)
Chairs: Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi (Politecnico di Milano) and Stefano Salvi (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV))

#	Authors	Title
18	Ellen Banzhaf (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ) and Sebastian Elze (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ)	High-resolution monitoring to infer the dynamics of different ecosystem services in a fast-growing city
27	Thomas Krauß (DLR - German Aerospace Center), Susanne Weyand (DLR - German Aerospace Center), Veronika Gstaiger (DLR - German Aerospace Center), Franz Kurz (DLR - German Aerospace Center), Alexandre Wiefels (HEAD Aerospace Group) and Shuhai Yu (Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd)	Parallel Acquisition of Airborne and Satellite Nighttime Datasets over Oldenburg
28	Ilias Agathangelidis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), George Blougouras (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Constantinos Cartalis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Anastasios Polydoros (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Thaleia Mavrakou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Chris Tzanis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)	Surface thermal effects of parks in Mediterranean cities: an investigation under typical summer conditions, heatwaves and droughts
114	Richard Teeuw (University of Portsmouth), Athanasios V. Argyriou (ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence), Oren Lieberman (University of Portsmouth) and Mark Cannata (Kassandra Project, Kassandra Srl)	Geoinformatics for Caribbean hurricane risk management and improved community resilience
123	Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Stefanie Lumnitz (European Space Agency (ESA)), Mattia Marconcini (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Francesca Elisa Leonelli (European Space Agency (ESA)), Patrick Griffiths (European Space Agency (ESA)) and Marc Paganini (European Space Agency (ESA))	Green Transition from Space: actionable information to support Sustainable Cities planning
124	Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi (Politecnico di Milano), Maria Stella Lux (Politecnico di Milano), Rita Maria Cristina Musacchio (Politecnico di Milano) and Carlo Andrea Castiglioni (Politecnico di Milano)	Integrating Earth-Observation services to improve the resilience of Milan urban area towards Climate Change within HARMONIA project

Session 4 - Urban climatology and ecology (Friday May 19 | 16.00-17.15 | Concert Hall)
Chairs: Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry (Toulouse III University) and Constantinos Cartalis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

#	Authors	Title
52	Clément Bressant (University of Strasbourg), Anne Puissant (University of Strasbourg) and Pierre-Alexis Herrault (University of Strasbourg)	Assessing the phenology of urban trees: a comparison of in-situ and optical remote sensing datasets
66	Tobias Leichtle (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Sophia Helgert (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Matthias Müller (PIKOBYTES GmbH), Jana Handschuh (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Thilo Erbertseder (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Michael Wurm (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Hannes Taubenböck (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Opposing land surface and air temperatures from remote sensing and Citizen Science for quantification of the Urban Heat Island effect
81	Robbe Neyns (VUB), Kyriakos Efthymiadis (VUB), Pieter Libin (VUB) and Frank Canters (VUB)	Tree species mapping in the Brussels Capital Region using deep learning and data fusion
93	Zhijun Zhen (CESBIO, Toulouse III University), Najmeddine Benromdhane (CESBIO, Toulouse III University), Abdelaziz Kallel (CRNS), Yingjie Wang (CESBIO, Toulouse III University), Omar Regaieg (CESBIO, Toulouse III University), Paul Boitard (CESBIO, Toulouse III University), Lucas Landier (CNES), Eric Chavanon (CESBIO, Toulouse III University), Nicolas Lauret (CESBIO, Toulouse III University), Jordan Guilleux (CESBIO, Toulouse III University), Tiangang Yin (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Jonathan Leon-Tavares (VITO NV Remote Sensing) and Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry (CESBIO, Toulouse III University)	DART: a 3D radiative transfer model for urban studies
117	Emmanouil Panagiotakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Giorgos Kochilakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Dimitris Tsirantonakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Konstantinos Politakos (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), Dimitris Poursanidis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)) and Nektarios Chrysoulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH))	A web-based tool for supporting USM in Heraklion

Special Session 8 - Future settlement growth modelling with EO products (Friday May 19 | 16.00-17.15 | Place: Experimental Stage)
Chairs: Felix Bachofer (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Andreas Rienow (Ruhr University Bochum)

#	Authors	Title
31	Andreas Rienow (Ruhr University Bochum)	Modeling Future Urban Expansion based on Global Settlement Products – A Comparative Study
35	Jonathan Prexl (University of the Bundeswehr Munich) and Michael Schmitt (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)	The Potential of Sentinel-2 Data for Global Building Footprint Mapping with High Temporal Resolution
44	Melika Ghobakhloo (University of New Brunswick), Yun Zhang (University of New Brunswick) and Sasha Mullally (University of New Brunswick)	Preliminary Study of Urban Land Use Classification Using Historical Aerial Photos and AI Technology
60	Zhiyuan Wang (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Mattia Marconcini (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Linh Hoang Khanh Nguyen (Hue University), Tung Gia Pham (Hue University) and Felix Bachofer (German Aerospace Center (DLR))	Settlement Growth Prediction exploiting EO-based Time Series with the Spatio-Temporal Matrix Approach: a Case Study for the City of Hue, Vietnam
61	Christian Geiß (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Jana Maier (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Emily So (University of Cambridge) and Yue Zhu (University of Cambridge)	LSTM models for spatiotemporal extrapolation of population data