April 20, 2021 - November 2, 2021

TUE 20

April 20, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Satellite Remote Sensing for Maritime, Urban Planning and Agricultural Applications

Virtual

Satellite remote sensing has emerged as a transformative technology with diverse applications, notably in maritime monitoring, urban planning, and agriculture. In the maritime domain, satellites with advanced sensors can track vessel movements, detect oil spills, and monitor ocean health, ...

TUE 4

May 4, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Semantic Segmentation of Roads in Satellite Imagery

Virtual

Remote sensing is a field that is constantly growing due to its importance in applications related to urban planning, risk assessment, resource exploration, and disaster management. Some of the most highly researched topics in the area of remote sensing include Land Cover Land Use (LCLU), ...

THU 20

May 20, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Protecting Satellite Images Against Attacks using AI and Image Processing Techniques

Virtual

Satellite imagery is a pivotal source of valuable information for monitoring our planet along with natural resources. However, these images have an extreme acquisition cost. Nowadays, with the widespread of the advanced technology, unauthorized ordinary people can access these data, modify...

TUE 1

June 1, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Contribution of GIS and remote sensing technologies to an integrated coastal and marine environmental management framework

Virtual

The coasts and islands that flank the United Arab Emirates (UAE), host an important number of benthic habitats; seagrass beds and coral reefs that should be the focus of conservation actions. Well-designed conservation and management plans require efficient monitoring systems that include ...

TUE 15

June 15, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Earth Observation in the New Space Age

Virtual

The “NewSpace” age has been a great disruptor of the earth observation industry ecosystem over the last few years, more so in the last three years with several new startups announcing plans to develop constellations of microsatellites with the ability to provide very high spatial resolutio...

TUE 29

June 29, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Automated Surveying Using AI & Google Maps Satellite Imagery

Virtual

In this session, InfraLytiks will present some very interesting capabilities and case studies for automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) case studies for Satellite Data based automated surveying. The focus will be on a case study have been successfully developed and completed by Infra...

TUE 13

July 13, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Spatial Enhancement of Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery

Virtual

Remote sensing technology has undeniable importance in various industrial applications. Some of which include mineral exploration, plant detection, defect detection in aerospace and shipbuilding, and optical gas imaging, to name a few. Remote sensing technology has been continuously evolvi...

TUE 7

September 7, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Remote Sensing of Soil Salinity in the UAE

Virtual

Soil salinity, whether natural or human induced, is a major geo-hazard in arid and semi-arid landscapes. In agricultural lands, it negatively affects plant growth, crop yields, whereas in semi-arid and arid non-agricultural areas it affects urban structures due to subsidence, corrosion and...

TUE 21

September 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Application of Remote Sensing and GIS to Flood and Rainwater Harvesting

Virtual

The construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will have positive and negative impacts on the people living downstream. Among possible impacts is the probability of flooding of human settlements along the Blue Nile. Reduction of water level is also a possible adverse effect...

TUE 5

October 5, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Applications of Remote Sensing to Air Quality Monitoring

Virtual

Air pollution has always been considered a major problem worldwide. The formation of air pollutants depends upon the sources of their precursors whether natural or anthropogenic. The level of air pollution, and therefore a measure of air quality, is derived from measurement of concentratio...

TUE 19

October 19, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm +04

Geospatial Multicriteria Analysis for Earthquake Risk Assessment: Case Study over Fujairah, UAE

Virtual

A clear understanding of the spatial distribution of earthquake events facilitates the prediction of seismicity and vulnerability amongst researchers in the social, physical, environmental, and demographic aspects. Generally, there are few studies on seismic risk assessment in UAE within t...

TUE 2

November 2, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am +04

Exploring Land use/land cover change and Flooding Risks using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques

Virtual

This study was conducted to investigate the spatiotemporal changes of land use/land cover (LULC) along the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over a 20-year period using an integration of remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems techniques. The impact of land use chan...