IGARSS 2026 || Washington, D.C. || 9

WE4.R6: Leveraging Earth Observation for Resilient and Sustainable Futures

Wednesday, 12 August, 16:15 - 17:30

Location: Cardozo

Session Type: Oral

Session Co-Chairs: Andrea Taramelli, Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia and Maria Libera Battagliere, Italian Space Agency

Track: Community Contributed Themes

Wed, 12 Aug, 16:15 - 16:30

WE4.R6.1: SYNTHESIS STUDY OF LAND AND WATER ENVIRONMENTS IN THE MEKONG DELTA

Son Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technoly; Emiliana Valentini, Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council of Italy; Serena Sapio, Andrea Taramelli, University School for Advanced Studies; Seung Hee Kim, Menas Kafatos, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing, Chapman University

Wed, 12 Aug, 16:30 - 16:45

WE4.R6.2: AI ON HYPERSPECTRAL SATELLITE DATA FOR RARE EARTH ELEMENT DETECTION: ENABLING SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE MISSIONS

Sara Liburdi, University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia; Alessandra Nguyen Xuan, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA); Emiliana Valentini, National Research Council of Italy (CNR); Marco Celesti, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC); Alberto Anelli, University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia; Jens Nieke, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC); Andrea Taramelli, University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia

Wed, 12 Aug, 16:45 - 17:00

WE4.R6.3: Earth Observation Constellation Optimization through Digital Twin development and Inter-Satellite Link technology exploitation

Lorenzo Mariani, Saverio Maria Currà, Sidhant Kumar, Tommaso Pantalani, Lorenzo Frezza, Fabrizio Piergentili, Sapienza University of Rome

Wed, 12 Aug, 17:00 - 17:15

WE4.R6.4: ASSESSING THE ADDED VALUE OF ONBOARD EARTH OBSERVATION PROCESSING WITH THE IRIDE HEO SERVICE SEGMENT

Parampuneet Kaur Thind, Charles Mwangi, Sapienza Universita di Roma; Giovanni Varetto, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca; Lorenzo Sarti, Argotec Srl; Andrea Papa, European Space Agency; Andrea Taramelli, Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia

Wed, 12 Aug, 17:15 - 17:30

WE4.R6.5: SatWellMCQ: A Vision–Language Satellite Dataset for MCQ‑Based Image Grounding of Oil Wells

Ahmed Emam, Sultan Alrowili, Mathan K. Eswaran, Romeo Kienzler, Younes Samih, IBM Reseach