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most citedQSpeckleFilter: a Quantum Machine Learning approach for SAR speckle filtering

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cs.CV2026

AquaCubeAI-Powered Monitoring Turbidity on-board Φsat-2

Pietro Di Stasio, Francesca Razzano, Elisa Liparulo +6

Timely monitoring of coastal water quality is critical for environmental protection, yet conventional satellite workflows rely on downlink and ground processing, introducing latenc…

cs.CV2026

Multi-Sensor Mapping of Vulnerable Urban Settlements Using SAR, Multispectral, and Hyperspectral Imagery: A Case Study in Córdoba, Argentina

Luigi Russo, Anabella Ferral, Silvia Liberata Ullo +1

Informal settlements represent a major urban challenge in rapidly expanding cities, yet their identification from Earth Observation (EO) data remains difficult because of their het…

cs.LG2026

Monitoring Post-Disaster Urban Recovery Using High-Resolution SAR Time Series and Unsupervised Learning: Evidence from the 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquake

Luigi Russo, Deodato Tapete, Silvia Liberata Ullo +1

Monitoring post-disaster recovery is essential for understanding how urban systems rebuild and progressively return to functionality. However, tracking reconstruction remains diffi…

cs.CV2026

Context-Aware Slum Mapping in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Sentinel-1 Texture and Local Climate Zones

Peterson Chepkilot, Babak Memar, Paolo Gamba

Accurate mapping of informal settlements remains a major challenge in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) cities because optical imagery often fails to distinguish Informal Settlements (defi…

quant-ph2025

Enriching Earth Observation labeled data with Quantum Conditioned Diffusion Models

Francesco Mauro, Francesca De Falco, Lorenzo Papa +5

The rapid adoption of diffusion models (DMs) in the Earth Observation (EO) domain has unlocked new generative capabilities aimed at producing new samples, whose statistical propert…

cs.CV2025

A Quantum-assisted Attention U-Net for Building Segmentation over Tunis using Sentinel-1 Data

Luigi Russo, Francesco Mauro, Babak Memar +3

Building segmentation in urban areas is essential in fields such as urban planning, disaster response, and population mapping. Yet accurately segmenting buildings in dense urban re…

cs.CV2025

An Object-Based Deep Learning Approach for Building Height Estimation from Single SAR Images

Babak Memar, Luigi Russo, Silvia Liberata Ullo +1

Accurate estimation of building heights using very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is crucial for various urban applications. This paper introduces a D…

cs.CV2025

A Deep Learning framework for building damage assessment using VHR SAR and geospatial data: demonstration on the 2023 Turkiye Earthquake

Luigi Russo, Deodato Tapete, Silvia Liberata Ullo +1

Building damage identification shortly after a disaster is crucial for guiding emergency response and recovery efforts. Although optical satellite imagery is commonly used for disa…

cs.CV2025

A Deep Learning Architecture for Land Cover Mapping Using Spatio-Temporal Sentinel-1 Features

Luigi Russo, Antonietta Sorriso, Silvia Liberata Ullo +1

Land Cover (LC) mapping using satellite imagery is critical for environmental monitoring and management. Deep Learning (DL), particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and V…

cs.CV2024

Benchmarking of a new data splitting method on volcanic eruption data

Simona Reale, Pietro Di Stasio, Francesco Mauro +3

In this paper, a novel method for data splitting is presented: an iterative procedure divides the input dataset of volcanic eruption, chosen as the proposed use case, into two part…

eess.IV2024

SEN12-WATER: A New Dataset for Hydrological Applications and its Benchmarking

Luigi Russo, Francesco Mauro, Alessandro Sebastianelli +2

Climate change and increasing droughts pose significant challenges to water resource management around the world. These problems lead to severe water shortages that threaten ecosys…

quant-ph2024

From Graphs to Qubits: A Critical Review of Quantum Graph Neural Networks

Andrea Ceschini, Francesco Mauro, Francesca De Falco +7

Quantum Graph Neural Networks (QGNNs) represent a novel fusion of quantum computing and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), aimed at overcoming the computational and scalability challeng…

eess.IV2024

Quanv4EO: Empowering Earth Observation by means of Quanvolutional Neural Networks

Alessandro Sebastianelli, Francesco Mauro, Giulia Ciabatti +4

A significant amount of remotely sensed data is generated daily by many Earth observation (EO) spaceborne and airborne sensors over different countries of our planet. Different app…

eess.SP2024★ 1 cited

QSpeckleFilter: a Quantum Machine Learning approach for SAR speckle filtering

Francesco Mauro, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Maria Pia Del Rosso +2

The use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has greatly advanced our capacity for comprehensive Earth monitoring, providing detailed insights into terrestrial surface use and cover r…

eess.SP2024★ 1 cited

A Hybrid MLP-Quantum approach in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) prediction

Francesco Mauro, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Bertrand Le Saux +2

This paper explores an innovative fusion of Quantum Computing (QC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the development of a Hybrid Quantum Graph Convolutional Neural Network (…

cs.CV2024

Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for water bodies mapping

Luigi Russo, Francesco Mauro, Babak Memar +3

Climate change is intensifying extreme weather events, causing both water scarcity and severe rainfall unpredictability, and posing threats to sustainable development, biodiversity…