Find below SWIFTT’s news articles, press releases, digests of scientific papers, as well as other outreach materials.

Publication: GANDALF: A LLM-based approach to map bark beetle outbreaks in semantic stories of Sentinel-2 images

Publication: GANDALF: A LLM-based approach to map bark beetle outbreaks in semantic stories of Sentinel-2 images

14 May 2025

In this work, SWIFTT partners from the University of Bari Aldo Moro describe GANDALF, an approach that leverages the potential of LLMs for mapping bark beetle outbreaks in Sentinel-2 images of forest areas.

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Publication: A Novel Approach for Rapid Detection of Forest Degradation and Diseases Through Anomaly Analysis of Sentinel-2 Spectral Data

Publication: A Novel Approach for Rapid Detection of Forest Degradation and Diseases Through Anomaly Analysis of Sentinel-2 Spectral Data

26 April 2025

In this work, SWIFTT partners from the Space Research Institute of Ukraine present a simple yet effective method for detecting forest degradation using freely available Sentinel-2 satellite data and an anomaly detection approach.

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SWIFTT partner presents her work in the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM-SAC 2025)

SWIFTT partner presents her work in the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM-SAC 2025)

11 April 2025

Annalisa Appice from the University of Bari presented the paper entitled “GANDALF: A LLM-based approach to map bark beetle outbreaks in semantic stories of Sentinel-2 images”

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SWIFTT project presented to representatives of the NetZeroCities project

SWIFTT project presented to representatives of the NetZeroCities project

03 April 2025

Project partner Jānis Ģērmanis from Rīgas meži presented the project alongside the company's development plans and their involvement in other EU projects

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SWIFTT Newsletter #4

SWIFTT Newsletter #4

03 March 2025

The fourth issue of the SWIFTT project newsletter is out! Get up to date with the project development and partner activities.

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SWIFTT consortium meeting in Paris, France

SWIFTT consortium meeting in Paris, France

27 February 2025

Partners discussed the accomplishments in the project's second year and the plans for the future.

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Timbtrack provides training to Forestry France

Timbtrack provides training to Forestry France

24 February 2025

Field training in data collection with the SWIFTT mobile app happened in Col de la Moreno, France.

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Timbtrack provides field training with the SWIFTT mobile app to EcoTree

Timbtrack provides field training with the SWIFTT mobile app to EcoTree

07 February 2025

The company provided invaluable feedback on the SWIFTT mobile app.

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Publication: An attention-based CNN approach to detect forest tree dieback caused by insect outbreak in Sentinel-2 images

Publication: An attention-based CNN approach to detect forest tree dieback caused by insect outbreak in Sentinel-2 images

28 January 2025

In this work, SWIFTT partners from the University of Bari Aldo Moro propose a deep learning-based approach, named AVALON, that implements a CNN to detect tree dieback events in Sentinel-2 images of forest areas.

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