Special Session #20
JULY 14-16, 2026 · CAMBRIDGE, UK
From Sensing to Digital Twins: Geomatics, Metrology and AI for the Built Environment
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The 12th International Conference of the Italian Remote Sensing Association (AIT), held recently (November 12-13-14, 2025) at the headquarters of AdRMi1 (Milan 1 Territorial Research Area) CNR in Milan, hosted by IREA-CNR, is the biennial event that the Italian community holds to discuss the state of the art of Earth Observation. Although Italian-led, the conference is designed to be international and, therefore, the official language is English. This year’s three-day conference (254 participants), entitled “Smart Earth Observation for a Sustainable Future,” featured 156 contributions distributed across 7 thematic sessions, 6 special sessions, 2 poster sessions, and one workshop organized by Planetek. The event, sponsored by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), ASITA (Confederation of Scientific Associations for Territorial and Environmental Information), and ENEA, was also supported by commercial sponsorships from companies involved in the supply of products, services, and software related to Earth Observation. Specifically: NV5, Planetek Italia, ESRI Italia, MDPI, Schneider Digital.
The conference also provided an opportunity to present the AIT awards for the best master’s theses about Earth observation: (i) the Eugenio Zilioli Award– 20th Edition 2025 for the thesis providing the greatest scientific value (winner: Dr. RAFFAELLA MARINA FRANK) and (ii) the NV5 Award for the thesis with the greatest potential for technology transfer (winner: Dr. MARCO VENTURA).
Among the topics related to the use of Earth observation data and sensors investigated at the conference: Agriculture and Forestry, Cryosphere, Water and Water Resources, Climate Change and Natural Hazards, Urban Monitoring, GeoAI, Air Quality and Human Health, New Space Programs and Earth Observation Missions.
The number and scientific soundness of the contributions, and the attention paid to data quality and transferability in operational contexts, demonstrate civil society’s growing interest in the use of these tools and solutions and their technical and economic impact on various national and supranational realities. Institutions have long recognized this potential and launched programs aimed at supporting and implementing it. Italy is no exception to this logic, having launched well-known EO space programs: the Cosmo-SkyMed mission (about to launch new-generation SAR satellites), PRISMA (HyperSpectral Precursor of the Application Mission), and the IRIDE multi-constellation/multi-sensor program.
At the European level, the Copernicus Program and its Sentinel satellite constellations are now a benchmark for the implementation of services for land planning, management, and control based on Earth observation data.
In this favorable context, the 12th AIT International Conference, held over three days in Milan, was the place where the academic and research community, industry and commerce, and the institutional players involved in land and environmental planning and monitoring proficiently shared their knowledge, tools and needs.
Il 29 maggio, presso la sede ASI di Roma – Diretta su AsiTV
Sarà possibile seguire in diretta l’evento su AsiTV a questo link
L’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) è lieta di annunciare un workshop dedicato alle Pubbliche Amministrazioni interessate alle potenzialità di utilizzo del dato satellitare nelle loro attività istituzionali attraverso lo sviluppo di progetti in partnership con l’ASI.
L’evento si terrà presso la sede dell’ASI a Roma il 29 maggio 2025 dalle ore 9:30 alle ore 17:00 e sarà dedicato al programma Innovation for Downstream Preparation – Public Administrations (I4DP – PA), concepito con l’obiettivo di preparare una nuova generazione di servizi downstream utili al governo del territorio e delle risorse economiche, attraverso il coinvolgimento attivo delle Pubbliche Amministrazioni quali attori principali del disegno e dello sviluppo dei progetti e non solo quali utenti finali dei servizi.
Il programma I4DP PA viene attuato attraverso bandi periodici. Nel corso del workshop verranno presentati i risultati dei progetti del primo bando, dedicato alla tematica della “Effetti dei cambiamenti climatici e degli eventi estremi” e i progetti del secondo bando che ha incluso tre ambiti tematici: “Reti Sicure” (es. aumento della sicurezza delle infrastrutture di trasporto e delle reti di distribuzione); “Lotta alla siccità” (es. prevenzione, monitoraggio e gestione della siccità); “Città resilienti” (es. impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sui nuclei urbani).
Il workshop vuole essere anche un momento di discussione e confronto sugli obiettivi del prossimo terzo bando, considerando l’imminente avvio operativo del programma IRIDE.
L’evento inizierà alle ore 09:30 e terminerà alle ore 17:00.
L’evento si svolgerà in presenza (obbligatoria per gli speaker), con possibilità di seguirlo anche da remoto.
Per partecipare al workshop è necessario registrarsi a questo link.
Termine per la registrazione dei partecipanti: 22 maggio 2025, ore 12:00
L’agenda dell’evento è disponibile a questo link.
The website of the XII° AIT International Conference “Smart Earth Observation for a Sustainable Future”, to be held in Milan from 12 to 14 November 2025, is now online at
The website provides the first details about the event, including
important dates and guidelines for participation.
In particular, the Call for Special Sessions is now open, inviting researchers and professionals to propose thematic sessions that will contribute to the scientific program and stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue.
We are pleased to announce the XV AIT Conference to be held in Milan, Italy, 12-14 November 2025.
In line with previous conferences, the event will provide a unique opportunity to take stock of the state of the art in remote sensing technologies and applications at national and international levels.
The conference will bring together experts, researchers, professionals and students to discuss the new frontiers of remote sensing according to a programme articulated with plenary and parallel sessions, poster sessions and networking events.
The conference website will be launched at the end of February, where calls for sessions, calls for papers and all event details will be available.
The deadline for abstract submission is 30 June 2025.
Further details will be available on the official event website from the end of February.
The conference will be held at the CNR Congress Centre Research Area 1, located in the heart of Città Studi, easily accessible by public transport (https://maps.app.goo.gl/wzZ2dUWsiUePoZU7A).
More details will be available on the event’s official website from the end of February.
We look forward to seeing you in Milan in November 2025!
Politecnico di Milano proposes the new edition of the doctoral course “The Copernicus green revolution for sustainable development”
This transdisciplinary doctoral course introduces the next generation of European professionals and researchers to Copernicus potentialities in many different fields.
All the information following this link:
The second Volume of the series “Trends in earth observation” has been published
Planet Care from Space
ISPRS Congress 2022 in Nice in will now happen in June 2022 (6-11) www.isprs2022-nice.com
The deadline for paper and abstract submission is January,10,2022 10, 2022
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New Webinar Series by ISPRS TC IV
ISPRS TC IV will offer a webinar series ‘State-of-the-art in Spatial Information Science’ until the 2022 Congress, which will be presented by a different working group each month. More information on the series can be found here. The first webinar in this series is:
Ken Arroyo Ohori and Stelios Vitalis CityJSON, a JSON-based encoding for storing 3D city models
Thursday, 01.07.2021 at 16:00 UTC.
The Webinar will take place in the afternoon: there will be no overlap with the ASITA Academy event
“Copernicus, l’Agricoltura 4.0 e la sostenibilità ambientale e d’impresa”
25 – 26 – 27 maggio 2021
La Geospatial Data and Satellite Facilities Open School “Copernicus, l’Agricoltura 4.0 e la sostenibilità ambientale e d’impresa” è proposta dal Coordinamento della Copernicus Academy, dagli Stati Generali per l’innovazione e da Agricolus s.r.l. quali espressioni dello User Forum Nazionale di Copernicus per, rispettivamente, la Comunità dell’Università e della Ricerca, la comunità del Terzo Settore, il settore delle imprese. L’Open School è altresì organizzata dal Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali dell’Università di Perugia e dall’Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale dell’Umbria in collaborazione con ISMEA, e-Geos s.p.a., Planetek Italia s.r.l., Bluleaf, con la partecipazione del CREA.
Hanno concesso il patrocinio all’iniziativa: ISMEA, Federazione Regionale Ordini dei dottori Agronomi e Dottori forestali dell’Umbria, Collegio dei Periti Agrari e dei Periti Agrari Laureati dell’Umbria, AM/FM GIS Italia, Associazione Italiana di Telerilevamento.