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SWIFTT Newsletter #5
19 November 2025
The fifth issue of the SWIFTT project newsletter is out! Get up to date with the project development and partner activities.
Publication: Deep Change Vector Analysis to Map Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Open Sentinel-2 Data
14 November 2025
In this work, SWIFTT partners from the University of Bari Aldo Moro explore the potential of an unsupervised learning method designed to process Sentinel-2 images of Earth’s forest scenes and automate the inventory of forest tree dieback caused by bark beetle outbreaks.
SWIFTT partners participates in the Interreg Europe SATSDIFACTION Project meeting in Riga, Latvia.
13 October 2025
Juris Zarins presented the projects related to the use of satellite data in which Rīgas meži is involved, including SWIFTT.
Forest Threat Data Collection
18 September 2025
As part of the SWIFTT project, foresters are using the mobile app developed by project partner Timbtrack to systematically collect ground-truth data from their parcels.
SWIFTT partner presents work at the DEARING 2025 workshop, co-located with ECML PKDD 2025
16 September 2025
Giuseppina Andresini from the University of Bari Aldo Moro presented the paper entitled “Reusing a BigEarthNet Deep Model to Map Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Sentinel-2 Forest Images”
Webinar - Adaptive Forest Management and Policy to Tackle Climate Risks
13 August 2025
Forests are at a turning point. As climate risks escalate, Europe’s woodlands face growing threats—from increasingly intense wildfires to the slow erosion of resilience. How can we better understand, anticipate, and protect these vital ecosystems?
SWIFTT consortium meets in Tours, France
17 July 2025
SWIFTT partners met to discuss the the most recent accomplishments in the project's third year and the plans towards the conclusion of the project
SWIFTT partner presents work at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
07 July 2025
Last week, SWIFTT partner Vito Recchia from UNIBA presented his research related to the SWIFTT project "Deep Change Vector Analysis to Map Bark Beetle Outbreaks in OpenSentinel-2 Data"
Project partners meet in Riga to present SWIFTT’s current version to Rīgas Meži foresters
02 July 2025
Partners received from the foresters valuable feedback and recommendations on improving the platform that will help shape the it to better match the needs of future users.
