Expertise
Computer Science
- Deep Learning Method
- Convolutional Neural Network
- Fully Convolutional Network
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Sustainable Development Goals
- State of the Art
- Cadastral
- Satellite Image
Organisations
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
- Scientific Departments (ITC-SCI)
- Geoinformatics (ITC-SCI-TECH)
- Digital Society Institute
Publications
2026
Agricultural parcel polygon reconstruction using boundary line segment assembly (2026)ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 239, 203-222. Zuo, X., Persello, C., Jiao, W., Wang, Y. & Shao, Z.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2026.05.049Toward actionable planetary boundary intelligence (2026)One earth, 9(8). Article 101780. Rafiezadeh Shahi, K., Caesar, L., Persello, C., Rockström, J. & Sakschewski, B.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2026.101780Hidden living-condition deficits in small and medium-sized cities (2026)Nature Cities (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Veeravalli, S. G., Blei, A. M., Friesen, J., Tareke, B., Kuffer, M., Persello, C., Maretto, R. V., Abascal, A., Georganos, S. & Thomson, D. R.https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-026-00498-wFrom pixels to vectorized cadastral boundaries: Deep learning-based automated delineation of property boundaries in the Netherlands (2026)International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG), 153. Article 105514 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Grift, J., Persello, C. & Koeva, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2026.105514Paleo-grounded biodiversity foundation models for long-horizon species distribution forecasting (2026)Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 14. Article 1894720. Herzschuh, U., Schild, L., Farkas, L., Caus, D., Xia, J., Weigel, T., Dammers, J., Demir, B., Golivets, M., Gupta, V., Hagen, O., Jansen, F., Khan, T., Kramer, A., Kühn, I., Mensio, M., Nieto-Lugilde, D., Persello, C., Rasti, B., … Zurell, D.https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2026.1894720Visible cadastral boundary delineation in data-scarce countries using data from neighboring data-rich countries (2026)In XXV ISPRS Congress 2026 “From Imagery to Understanding”, Commission I (pp. 329-335) (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Copernicus. Grift, J., Persello, C. & Koeva, M.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-XI-1-2026-329-2026AI’s eyes on ice: Large-scale glacier mapping and surface mass balance modelling with earth observation and deep learning (2026)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Maslov, K.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036571739ACPV-Net: All-class polygonal vectorization for seamless vector map generation from aerial imagery (2026)[Contribution to conference › Paper] The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2026 2026. Jiao, W., Cheng, H., Vosselman, G. & Persello, C.https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/papers/Jiao_ACPV-Net_All-Class_Polygonal_Vectorization_for_Seamless_Vector_Map_Generation_from_CVPR_2026_paper.pdfAll-weather land cover and building damage mapping: Outcome of the 2025 IEEE GRSS data fusion contest (2026)IEEE Journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 19, 21689-21707. Liu, W., Wang, Z., Guo, X., Duan, P., Kang, X., Li, S., Wang, Z., Hu, J., Guo, Y., Li, J., Huang, H., Sheng, Y., Guo, Y., He, W., Zeng, X., Qu, Y., Persello, C., Verma, U., Prasad, S., … Yokoya, N.https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2026.3697217User and data-centric artificial intelligence for mapping and benchmarking urban deprivation for a global sample of cities (2026)Remote sensing of environment, 335. Article 115272. Tareke, B., Filho, P. S., Persello, C., Kuffer, M., Maretto, R. V., Wang, J., Abascal, A., Pillai, P., Singh, B., D’Attoli, J. M., Kabaria, C., Pedrassoli, J., Brito, P., Elias, P., Atenógenes, E., Santiago, A. R., Pratomo, J., Mulyana, W., Paganini, M., … Ospina, J. P.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115272Edge-aware crop field boundary mapping from multimodal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data (2026)IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters, 23. Article 2502105. Celik, M. F., Persello, C., Nelson, A., Conchedda, G., Tubiello, F. & Paris, C.https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2026.3673620AI4SmallFarms: Sentinel-1 Extension for Crop Field Delineation in Southeast Asian Smallholder Farms (2026)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Çelik, M. F., Persello, C., Nelson, A., Conchedda, G., Tubiello, F. N. & Paris, C.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18921641A transformer based multi-task deep learning model for urban livability evaluation by fusing remote sensing and textual geospatial data (2026)Remote sensing of environment, 334. Article 115232. Zhou, W., Persello, C., Ming, D., Wang, S. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115232GlaUnTI: Glacier surface mass balance dataset (2026)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Maslov, K. A., Hugonnet, R., Tolle, F., Bernard, E., Friedt, J.-M., Griselin, M., Małecki, J., Schellenberger, T., Persello, C. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.4121/5ea53bc3-2c85-42bb-89d1-606c8ed1d80a.v1Pan-European dataset for glacier facies classification (2026)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Maslov, K., Schellenberger, T., PANDIT, P. H., Persello, C. & Stein, A.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17473412Rapid Flood Mapping: Outcome of the 2024 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest (2026)IEEE Journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 19, 5385-5399. Li, J., Huang, H., He, W., Zhang, H., Zhang, L., Liu, T., Yuan, M., Lu, C., Lu, K., Peng, B., Duan, H., Li, M., Zhang, P., Wang, T., Liao, T., Li, Y., Dang, B., Wei, F., Tan, J., … Piacentini, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2026.3652462
2025
LDPoly: Latent diffusion for polygonal road outline extraction in large-scale topographic mapping (2025)ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 230, 820-842. Jiao, W., Cheng, H., Vosselman, G. & Persello, C.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.10.005Report on the 2025 IEEE GRSS data fusion contest: All-weather land cover and building damage mapping [Technical Committees] (2025)IEEE geoscience and remote sensing magazine, 13(4), 488-492. Persello, C., Verma, U., Prasad, S., Vivone, G., Chen, H., Xia, J., Song, J., Broni-Bediako, C., Dietrich, O., Schindler, K. & Yokoya, N.https://doi.org/10.1109/MGRS.2025.3609887CadNet: A deep learning model with enhanced line connectivity for cadastral boundary delineation (2025)In IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Proceedings (pp. 1584-1588) (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)). IEEE. Grift, J., Persello, C. & Koeva, M.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11242683Technical progress towards spacenet-9 - cross-modal satellite imagery registration for natural disaster responses (2025)[Contribution to conference › Paper] IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2025. Hänsch, R., Arndt, J., Potnis, A., Dias, P., Persello, C., Pacifici, F. & Bacastow, T. M.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11244021
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Courses academic year 2026/2027
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Courses academic year 2025/2026
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Organisations
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
- Scientific Departments (ITC-SCI)
- Geoinformatics (ITC-SCI-TECH)
- Digital Society Institute