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2026

Abstract

Chat with point: LLM-driven visual question answering for InSAR-based disaster management (2026) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] 13th International workshop on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry”, Fringe 2026 . Li, S. , Aghababaei, H. & Belgiu, M. Exploiting polarization-agnostic deep Learning method for PolSAR despeckling on recent BIOMASS data (2026) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] 13th International workshop on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry”, Fringe 2026 . Passarello, G. , Vitale, S. , Aghababaei, H. , Ferraioli, G. & Pascazzio, V. Forest height retrieval under zero baseline InSAR: A reduced-order coherence framework (2026) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] 13th International workshop on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry”, Fringe 2026 . Aghababaei, H. , Ma, Y. , Ferraioli, G. , Tomppo, E. & Praks, J. Exploiting zero baseline interferometric coherence for biomass retrieval (2026) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] 13th International workshop on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry”, Fringe 2026 . Yang, W. , Aghababaei, H. , Tomppo, E. , Vitale, S. , Ferraioli, G. & Praks, J. An urban air quality sensor network in Enschede, the Netherlands: Opportunities for science, technology, education, and policy (2026) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] EGU General Assembly 2026 . Penning de Vries, M. , Javan, F. D. , Flacke, J. , Ostermann, F. & Timmermans, W. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-21198

Article

Assessing the Two-Layer Forest Scattering Model Using Sentinel-1 Dual-Polarimetric InSAR Observations (2026) IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing . Aghababaei, H. , Tomppo, E. , Ma, Y. , Yang, W. , Vitale, S. , Ferraioli, G. , Schirinzi, G. , Praks, J. & Taillade, T. AfriTickID: An AI-assisted image-based approach for tick species identification in Kenya. (2026) Acta Tropica (E-pub ahead of print/First online) . Kioko, C. , Cheng, H. , Ekeya, J. , Wesonga, V. , Murigu, M. , Githaka, N. , Cheng, Y. & Blanford, J. I. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2026.108268 Hyperspectral constraints reduce bias in ECOSTRESS evapotranspiration and drought indicators (2026) Remote sensing of environment, 341 . Article 115453 . Marshall, M. , Pepe, M. , Tagliabue, G. , Odongo, V. , Timmermans, W. , Vuolo, F. , Soszynska, A. , Ofori-Karikari, K. , Prikaziuk, E. , Yilmaz, V. , Girgin, S. , Panigada, C. , Rossini, M. , Fava, F. , Leitner, S. M. , Hecker, C. , Merbold, L. , Szantoi, Z. & Boschetti, M. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115453 Assessing the capabilities of UAV-based observation for marginalized communities: A case study of Roma settlements in slovakia (2026) Remote sensing, 18(14) . Javan, F. D. , Ihnacik, L. , Blistan, P. , Homaei, M. , Papajova, I. & Anthonj, C. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18142326 DualCDM: Dual-domain conditional diffusion for SAR-to-optical translation with spatial–frequency correlation and adaptive feature recalibration (2026) Sensors (Switzerland), 26(13) . Article 4183 . Ma, Y. , Aghababaei, H. , Chang, L. & Wei, J. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26134183 A multi-task Transformer for integrated in-season rapeseed mapping and flowering retrieval using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data (2026) ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 237 , 606-627 . Zang, Y. , Chen, X. , Shen, M. , Yang, W. , Vrieling, A. , Paris, C. , Qiu, B. , Xia, L. , Wu, S. & Chen, J. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2026.04.058 Benchmarking methods for identifying phenological regions (2026) Geomatica, 78(1) . Article 100113 . De Oto, L. , Khodadadzadeh, M. , Izquierdo-Verdiguier, E. & Zurita-Milla, R. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomat.2026.100113 BIOMASS SAR tomography: An insight from closure phase (2026) IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters . Aghababaei, H. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2026.3716863 Exposed yet unmapped: Evidence of differential flood exposure in deprived urban areas using citizen science (2026) npj Urban Sustainability . Trento Oliveira, L. , Campomanes V, F. , Dijkstra, A. M. , Belgiu, M. , Adiku, P. , Wanjiru, N. , Onyango, L. , Flor, R. , Ibraimo, D. , van den Bout, B. , Zevenbergen, J. A. & Kuffer, M. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-026-00428-8 Contour-guided hybrid graph network for building instance segmentation from airborne LiDAR point clouds (2026) IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 64 . Article 5702718 . Li, S. , Zhang, L. , Jiang, S. , Jiang, W. , Elberink, S. O. , Liu, X. & Xie, W. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2026.3701817 Water, environment, and health insecurities in marginalised communities: Insights from Eastern Slovakia (2026) Environmental Challenges, 23 . Article 101507 . Anthonj, C. , Javan, F. D. , Ihnacik, L. , Janeka, P. , Blistan, P. , Foellmer, J. & Papajova, I. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2026.101507 Hyperspectral assessment of wheat lodging: From field to EnMAP satellite observations (2026) International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG), 149 . Article 105289 . Celik, M. F. , Nagarajan, P. , Nelson, A. , Unnisa, Z. , Ogutu, B. , Dash, J. , Boschetti, M. , Dobrowolska, E. , Volden, E. & Darvishzadeh, R. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2026.105289 Land cover classification of Sentinel-1 images at subpixel level using deep learning (2026) Remote sensing letters, 17(5) , 607-620 (E-pub ahead of print/First online) . Habiba, U. , Aghababaei, H. & Belgiu, M. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2026.2661869 User and data-centric artificial intelligence for mapping and benchmarking urban deprivation for a global sample of cities (2026) Remote sensing of environment, 335 . Article 115272 . Tareke, B. , Filho, P. S. , Persello, C. , Kuffer, M. , Maretto, R. V. , Wang, J. , Abascal, A. , Pillai, P. , Singh, B. , D’Attoli, J. M. , Kabaria, C. , Pedrassoli, J. , Brito, P. , Elias, P. , Atenógenes, E. , Santiago, A. R. , Pratomo, J. , Mulyana, W. , Paganini, M. , … Ospina, J. P. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115272 Edge-aware crop field boundary mapping from multimodal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data (2026) IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters, 23 . Article 2502105 . Celik, M. F. , Persello, C. , Nelson, A. , Conchedda, G. , Tubiello, F. & Paris, C. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2026.3673620 Proximal sensing with rotating panoramic field cameras: An open-source platform for remote sensing validation (2026) IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters, 23 . Article 2502205 . Ellsäßer, F. J. , Paris, C. , Schlund, M. , van der Werff, H. & Vrieling, A. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2026.3673199 Assessing drought-induced tree mortality in open Mediterranean forests integrating landsat time series, spectral unmixing, and UAS validation (2026) Remote sensing, 18(5) . Raunak, A. , Huesca, M. , Nyktas, P. & Paris, C. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18050792 SE-CAE: A self-evolving CAE framework for noise-free InSAR (2026) IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 64 . Article 5507618 . Yang, M. , Yu, H. , Wu, H. , Chang, L. & Yu, H. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2026.3670837 A transformer based multi-task deep learning model for urban livability evaluation by fusing remote sensing and textual geospatial data (2026) Remote sensing of environment, 334 . Article 115232 . Zhou, W. , Persello, C. , Ming, D. , Wang, S. & Stein, A. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115232 Multi-modality transfer learning for cloudy remote sensing images: Addressing modality imbalance with knowledge distillation (2026) Pattern recognition, 177 . Article 113361 (E-pub ahead of print/First online) . Wang, Y. , Xiao, R. , Li, H. , Belgiu, M. & Tao, C. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2026.113361 European coastal deformation drives unequal exposure to climate hazards (2026) Communications Earth & Environment, 7(1) . Article 168 . Chen, H. , Wang, C. , Fernandez, J. , Hou, H. , Chang, L. & Li, Q. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03190-y Rapid Flood Mapping: Outcome of the 2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest (2026) IEEE Journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 19 , 5385-5399 . Li, J. , Huang, H. , He, W. , Zhang, H. , Zhang, L. , Liu, T. , Yuan, M. , Lu, C. , Lu, K. , Peng, B. , Duan, H. , Li, M. , Zhang, P. , Wang, T. , Liao, T. , Li, Y. , Dang, B. , Wei, F. , Tan, J. , … Piacentini, A. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2026.3652462 Whose city is it?: Mapping perceived urban livability with citizen-guided AI (2026) npj Urban Sustainability, 6(1) . Article 16 (E-pub ahead of print/First online) . Campomanes V, F. , Abascal, A. , Trento Oliveira, L. , Kuffer, M. , Dijkstra, A. M. , Stein, A. & Belgiu, M. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00320-x Kartografie in Trump-land: Waarom namen er toe doen... (2026) Geografie, 35(1) , 22 . Köbben, B. J.

Conference article

A review of UAV photogrammetry applications in mining: Structural mapping and surface monitoring (2026) ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 10(4/W8-2025) , 683-692 . Sarvi, A. , Abedini, A. & Javan, F. D. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-x-4-w8-2025-683-2026 4DSTR: Advancing Generative 4D Gaussians with Spatial-Temporal Rectification for High-Quality and Consistent 4D Generation (2026) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(9) , 7224-7232 . Liu, M. , Liu, J. , Zhang, Y. , Li, J. , Yang, M. Y. , Nex, F. & Cheng, H. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i9.37659

Conference contribution

Feasibility of indoor frame-wise Lidar semantic segmentation via distillation from visual foundation model (2026) In ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (pp. 263-270) (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences) . Copernicus . Wu, H. , Torres, J. J. G. , Vosselman, G. & Lehtola, V. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-XI-1-2026-263-2026 How Development of Recreation, Embryo Dune Habitat and Flood Safety Interact at Evolving Nature-Based Sandy Interventions (2026) In Coastal Dynamics 2025 (pp. 235-240) (Coastal Research Library; Vol. 42) . Springer . Wijnberg, K. M. , Bakhshianlamouki, E. , van Rosmalen, S. J. , Teixeira, M. , Augustijn, P. W. M. , Brugnach, M. F. , Horstman, E. M. , Limpens, J. , Mulder, J. P. M. , Riksen, M. J. P. M. & Voinov, A. A. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15477-4_37

Dataset

Replication data for "Benchmarking methods for identifying phenological regions" (2026) [Dataset Types › Dataset] . DANS Data Station Physical and Technical Sciences . De Oto, L. , Khodadadzadeh, M. , Izquierdo-Verdiguier, E. & Zurita-Milla, R. https://doi.org/10.17026/pt/y1zqaz AI4SmallFarms: Sentinel-1 Extension for Crop Field Delineation in Southeast Asian Smallholder Farms (2026) [Dataset Types › Dataset] . Zenodo . Çelik, M. F. , Persello, C. , Nelson, A. , Conchedda, G. , Tubiello, F. N. & Paris, C. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18921641 EO4CerealStress Biophysical Indicators: Wheat lodging detection maps from EnMAP and Sentinel-2Remote sensing based machine learning model outputs for lodging detection (2026) [Dataset Types › Dataset] . DANS Data Station Physical and Technical Sciences . Çelik, F. & Darvishzadeh, R. https://doi.org/10.17026/pt/tfyjbn GlaUnTI: Glacier surface mass balance dataset (2026) [Dataset Types › Dataset] . 4TU.Centre for Research Data . Maslov, K. A. , Hugonnet, R. , Tolle, F. , Bernard, E. , Friedt, J.-M. , Griselin, M. , Małecki, J. , Schellenberger, T. , Persello, C. & Stein, A. https://doi.org/10.4121/5ea53bc3-2c85-42bb-89d1-606c8ed1d80a.v1 Pan-European dataset for glacier facies classification (2026) [Dataset Types › Dataset] . Zenodo . Maslov, K. , Schellenberger, T. , PANDIT, P. H. , Persello, C. & Stein, A. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17473412

Paper

Bench4GeoCode: A benchmark for natural language to geospatial code generation (2026) [Contribution to conference › Paper] 1st International Workshop on Geography According to Foundation Models 2026 . Iyer, M. , Kirana, A. P. , de By, R. A. & Farnaghi, M. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.20645018 ACPV-Net: All-class polygonal vectorization for seamless vector map generation from aerial imagery (2026) [Contribution to conference › Paper] The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2026 2026 . Jiao, W. , Cheng, H. , Vosselman, G. & Persello, C. https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/papers/Jiao_ACPV-Net_All-Class_Polygonal_Vectorization_for_Seamless_Vector_Map_Generation_from_CVPR_2026_paper.pdf Constraint-aware AoV planning for orchestrating autonomous geospatial analysis with LLMs (2026) [Contribution to conference › Paper] The 1st International Conference on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI 2026) . Kirana, A. P. , Farnaghi, M. & Zurita-Milla, R. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.20299181 Continuous learning digital twin for predictive building energy management (2026) [Contribution to conference › Paper] 5th 4TU-14UAS Research Day on Digitalization of the Built Environment . Njoroge, J. , Koeva, M. N. , Farnaghi, M. , Petrova-Antonova, D. & Pantusheva, M. A unified deep learning Model for despeckling in multi-modal polarimetric SAR data (2026) [Contribution to conference › Paper] 12th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry, 6th Biomass Science Workshop and 1st Cal/Val Meeting, PolInSAR & Biomass 2026 . Passarello, G. , Vitale, S. , Aghababaei, H. , Ferraioli, G. & Pascazio, V. Global coverage of sentinel-1 InSAR and spaceborne LiDAR: A pathway to data-driven forest height modeling (2026) [Contribution to conference › Paper] 12th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry, 6th Biomass Science Workshop and 1st Cal/Val Meeting, PolInSAR & Biomass 2026 . Aghababaei, H. , Ferraioli, G. , Praks, J. , Tomppo, E. , Schirinzi, G. & Taillade, T.

Preprint

Mono-Hydra++: Real-time monocular scene graph construction with multi-task learning for 3D indoor mapping (2026) [Working paper › Preprint] . Udugama, U. V. B. L. , Vosselman, G. & Nex, F. Bridge: Basis-driven causal inference marries VFMs for domain generalization (2026) [Working paper › Preprint] . ArXiv.org . Hong, M. , Liu, F. , Gevaert, C. , Vosselman, G. & Cheng, H. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.26820 ZeD-MAP: Bundle adjustment guided zero-shot depth maps for real-time aerial imaging (2026) [Working paper › Preprint] . ArXiv.org . Iz, S. A. , Nex, F. C. , Kerle, N. , Meissner, H. & Berger, R. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.04667 M2h-mx: Multi-task dense visual perception for real-time monocular spatial understanding (2026) [Working paper › Preprint] . Udugama, U. V. B. L. , Vosselman, G. & Nex, F.

Report

Diagnostic of urban flooding in Kisumu: Report 2026 (2026) [Book/Report › Report] . University of Twente . Trento Oliveira, L. , Kuffer, M. , Dijkstra, A. M. & Belgiu, M. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20814676

2025

Article

Improved mapping of perennial crop types based on intra-annual biophysical changing patterns of spectral endmembers (2025) Remote sensing of environment, 331 . Article 115059 . Gao, X. , Hu, Q. , Sun, D. , Belgiu, M. , Lun, F. , Sun, Q. , Ji, Z. & Jiao, X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.115059 2025 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest: All-Weather Land Cover and Building Damage Mapping (2025) IEEE geoscience and remote sensing magazine, 13(2) , 388-392 . Persello, C. , Prasad, S. , Verma, U. , Vivone, G. , Chen, H. , Xia, J. , Song, J. , Broni-Bediako, C. , Dietrich, O. , Schindler, K. & Yokoya, N. https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2024.3524414 ‘Local Hubs and Global Gateways’: Understanding the impact of Singapore’s master plan on urban polycentricity (2025) Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 52(4) , 789-803 . Wu, C. , Wang, M. , Wang, J. , Smith, D. & Kraak, M.-J. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083241267070

Conference contribution

Energy Monitoring for Earth Observation Big Data Processing: A Gap Analysis (2025) In IGARSS 2025 : IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 6526-6530) . IEEE . Bhawiyuga, A. , Girgin, S. , de By, R. A. & Zurita-Milla, R. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11243955

Dataset

Software. Reproducible results. Wastewater-based epidemiology framework: Collaborative modeling for sustainable disease surveillance (2025) [Dataset Types › Dataset] . Zenodo . DelaPaz-Ruíz, N. , Augustijn, E.-W. , Farnaghi, M. , Abdulkareem, S. A. & Zurita-Milla, R. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14883767

Paper

TopoLiDM: Topology-aware LiDAR diffusion models for interpretable and realistic LiDAR point cloud generation (2025) [Contribution to conference › Paper] IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2025 . Liu, J. , Huang, Z. , Liu, M. , Deng, T. , Nex, F. , Cheng, H. & Wang, H. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11247363 Technical progress towards spacenet-9 - cross-modal satellite imagery registration for natural disaster responses (2025) [Contribution to conference › Paper] IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2025 . Hänsch, R. , Arndt, J. , Potnis, A. , Dias, P. , Persello, C. , Pacifici, F. & Bacastow, T. M. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11244021

2024

Article

Reliability of real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning for low-cost drones’ navigation across Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) critical environments (2024) Sensors (Switzerland), 24(18) . Article 6096 . Tavasci, L. , Nex, F. & Gandolfi, S. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24186096

Preprint

Responsible AI for Earth Observation (2024) [Working paper › Preprint] . ArXiv.org (E-pub ahead of print/First online) . Ghamisi, P. , Yu, W. , Marinoni, A. , Gevaert, C. M. , Persello, C. , Selvakumaran, S. , Girotto, M. , Horton, B. P. , Rufin, P. , Hostert, P. , Pacifici, F. & Atkinson, P. M. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.20868

2020

Dataset

On the Assessment of Non-Local Multi-Looking in Detection of Persistent Scatterers Using SAR Tomography (2020) [Dataset Types › Dataset] . DANS Data Station Physical and Technical Sciences . Aghababaei, H. A. https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-x9m-dwjr

2016

Abstract

Bridging missing observations in SAR time series: A data-driven simulation for SUPSAR applications (2016) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] 13th International workshop on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry”, Fringe 2026 . Ma, Y. , Aghababaei, H. , Ferraioli, G. , Tomppo, E. & Praks, J.
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