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

Publication: Features’ Selection for Forest State Classification Using Machine Learning on Satellite Data

Publication: Features’ Selection for Forest State Classification Using Machine Learning on Satellite Data

05 September 2024

In this work, SWIFTT partners from the Space Research Institute of Ukraine and collaborators discuss the use of advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence techniques for analysing remote sensing data, specifically focusing on the semantic segmentation of forest areas.

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Publication: Potential of spectral-spatial analysis to map forest tree dieback due to bark beetle hotspots in Sentinel-2 images

Publication: Potential of spectral-spatial analysis to map forest tree dieback due to bark beetle hotspots in Sentinel-2 images

05 September 2024

In this work, SWIFTT partners from the University of Bari Aldo Moro and collaborators explore the performance of a spectral-spatial machine learning approach used to analyse Sentinel-2 images to detect forest tree dieback events due to bark beetle infestation.

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Publication: DIAMANTE: A data-centric semantic segmentation approach to map tree dieback induced by bark beetle infestations via satellite images

Publication: DIAMANTE: A data-centric semantic segmentation approach to map tree dieback induced by bark beetle infestations via satellite images

04 September 2024

In this work, SWIFTT partners from the University of Bari Aldo Moro and collaborators explore the performance of a data-centric semantic segmentation approach to detect forest tree dieback events due to bark beetle infestation in satellite images.

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SWIFTT partner presents work at the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

SWIFTT partner presents work at the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

12 July 2024

Paper from UNIBA is titled “Potential of spectral-spatial analysis to map forest tree dieback due to bark beetle hotspots in Sentinel-2 images”.

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SWIFTT Newsletter #3

SWIFTT Newsletter #3

11 July 2024

The third 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 welcomes its new project coordinator

SWIFTT consortium welcomes its new project coordinator

19 June 2024

Based in Paris, France, AXA Climate is the climate and biodiversity expert entity of AXA Group.

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SWIFTT: A Copernicus-based forest management tool to map, mitigate, and prevent the main threats to EU forests

SWIFTT: A Copernicus-based forest management tool to map, mitigate, and prevent the main threats to EU forests

11 June 2024

The solution will increase forest management productivity and cost-effectiveness, and enable forest managers, authorities, and policymakers to deal with forest threats proactively.

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SWIFTT goes through the project midterm review

SWIFTT goes through the project midterm review

22 May 2024

The SWIFTT consortium got together on May 22nd at the EUSPA headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, for the project's midterm review meeting.

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Publication: Leveraging Sentinel-2 time series for bark beetle-induced forest dieback inventory

Publication: Leveraging Sentinel-2 time series for bark beetle-induced forest dieback inventory

21 May 2024

SWIFTT paper explores the performance of remote sensing methods used to perform the inventory mapping of bark beetle-induced forest dieback.

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