Artificial Intelligence School

SUMMER SCHOOL

19-23 May 2025

SCHOOL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS FOR EARTH OBSERVATION

The current and growing interest in Artificial Intelligence and its applications, has encouraged the Institute of Applied Physics of CNR (IFAC-CNR) together with the Center for Microwave Remote Sensing (Ce.Te.M.) and with the support of IEEE and its Chapters (in particular GRS29-CNI and  GRS29 SI) and the patronage of the Italian Remote Sensing Association (AIT) to organize a school on the applications of remote sensing  techniques to the Earth's surface.

The School was successfully held from 19 to 23 May 2025 in the locals of the Academy of Drawing Sciences (Via Orsanmichele 4, Florence). The program included the participation of researchers and university professors expert in the domain as teachers and was divided into the  following themes:

•An overview of Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Applications
•Once Upon a Time there was the Bayesian Approach of Parameter Retrieval
•Machine Learning Applications for Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture, Vegetation Biomass and Snow
•Physics-Based AI in Earth Observation
•Deep Learning Methods for Characterizing Urban Areas Using Radar and Optical Sensors
•Quantum Machine Learning Applied to EO
•Snow Cover Fraction Mapping from Optical Imagery: a Progression from NDSI Thresholding toNonlinear Machine Learning Based Unmixing
•Marine Macroalgae Extraction Using Remote Sensing and AI

The organizers
Simonetta Paloscia (IFAC-CNR),
Simone Pettinato (IFAC-CNR),
Emanuele Santi (IFAC-CNR).