Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy
GEOINFORMATION DOCTORATE
URBAN AREAS AND CHANGE DETECTION

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F. Del Frate, F. Pacifici, D. Solimini, "Monitoring Urban Land Cover in Rome, Italy, by single-parameter multi-temporal SAR images", under revision (2007) for publication on the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

F. Pacifici, F. Del Frate, W. J. Emery, P. Gamba, J. Chanussot, "Urban mapping using coarse SAR and optical data: outcome of the 2007 GRS-S data fusion contest", in press (2007) on IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

M. Chini, F. Pacifici, W. J. Emery, N. Pierdicca, F. Del Frate, "Comparing statistical and neural network methods applied to very high resolution satellite images showing changes in man-made structures at Rocky Flats", in press (2007) on IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

F. Del Frate, F. Pacifici, C. Solimini, W. J. Emery, "A new method for assessing urban change detection in high-resolution optical satellite imagery", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 45, pp. 2940-2952, 2007.
F. Del Frate, F. Pacifici, G. Schiavon, C. Solimini, “Use of neural networks for automatic classification from high-resolution images”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 45, pp. 800-809, 2007.

F. Pacifici, F. Del Frate, C. Solimini, W.J. Emery, "A robust neural network design for detecting changes from multi-spectral satellite imagery", IGARSS'07, Barcelona, Spain, Jul.-Aug. 2007.

M. Chini, W.J. Emery, F. Pacifici, "Satellite mapping of the demolition of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant", IGARSS'07, Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.

F. Del Frate, F. Pacifici, D. Solimini, A. Burini, "Urban land cover classification: potential of high and very high resolution SAR imagery", IGARSS'07, Barcelona, Spain, Jul.-Aug. 2007.

M. Chini, W.J. Emey, F. Pacifici, "Change mapping in the Rocky Flats area as test bed for damage detection algorithms", European Geophysical Union 2007, Vienna, Austria, April 2007.

F. Del Frate, R. Duca, D. Solimini, "Urban features retrieved by hyperspectral multi-angle CHRIS/PROBA images'', 4th IEEE/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas and 6th International Symposium of Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Paris, France, April 2007.

F. Pacifici, F. Del Frate, C. Solimini, W.J. Emery, “A New Neural Architecture for Detecting Urban Changes in Quickbird Imagery ”, 4th IEEE/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas and 6th International Symposium of Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Paris, France, April 2007.

F. Del Frate, F. Pacifici, D. Solimini, “Urban Land Cover in Rome, monitored by single-parameter multi-temporal images”, 4th IEEE/ISPRS Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas and 6th International Symposium of Remote Sensing of Urban Areas, Paris, France, April 2007.

M. Chini, W.J. Emey, F. Pacifici, “Change mapping in the Rocky Flats area as test bed for damage detection algorithms”, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 06607, 2007, Vienna, Austria, April 2007.

F. Del Frate, F. Pacifici, C. Solimini, W.J. Emery, "A new neural network architecture for automatic Urban Change Detection From Satellite Imagery", ESA-EUSC 2006: Image Information Mining for Security and Intelligence, EUSC, Torrejon Air Base, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 2006.

F. Del Frate, D. Solimini, “Monitoring urban changes in Rome, Italy, by Multi- Temporal SAR Images”, IGARSS'06, Denver, U.S.A., Jul.-Aug. 2006.

F. Del Frate, F. Pacifici, C. Solimini, W.J. Emery, "Urban Change Detection by Using Neural Networks Algorithms and High Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery", IGARSS'06, Denver, U.S.A., Jul.-Aug. 2006.

F. Del Frate, G. Schiavon, C. Solimini, "Use of high resolution satellite data for change detection in urban areas", ESA-EUSC 2005: Image Information Mining – Theory and Application to Earth Observation, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, Oct. 2005.

F. Del Frate, C. Solimini "A user-friendly automatic tool for image classification based on neural networks", 3rd Int. Symp. Remote Sensing and Data Fusion Over Urban Areas (URBAN 2005) and 5th Int. Symp. Remote Sensing of Urban Areas (URS 2005), Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 2005.

Del Frate, C. Solimini "Change detection in urban areas with QuickBird imagery and neural networks algorithms", 3rd Int. Symp. Remote Sensing and Data Fusion Over Urban Areas (URBAN 2005) and 5th Int. Symp. Remote Sensing of Urban Areas (URS 2005), Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 2005.

R. Duca, A. Minchella, F. Sarti. “Tsunami (Asia) of 26/12/2004: change detection dataset of ENVISAT ASAR & MERIS, ERS 1&2 SAR, CHRIS/PROBA acquisitions. Region of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Northern Sumatra. Preliminary Results”, ESA/ESRIN, 2005, http://earth.esa.int/applications/tsunamidata/.

F. Del Frate, G. Schiavon, C. Solimini, "Application of neural network algorithms to QuickBird imagery for classification and change detection of urban areas", IGARSS'04, Anchorage, U.S.A., Sept. 2004.

F. Del Frate, G. Schiavon, C. Solimini, “Satellite urban land use monitoring with multi-spectral high resolution imagery and multi-temporal SAR data”, Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Remote Sensing, Isola d’Elba, Italy, Sept. 2003.

G. Schiavon, F. Del Frate, C. Solimini, A. Minchella, "High resolution multi-spectral analysis of urban areas with QuickBird imagery and sinergy with ERS data", IGARSS'03, Toulouse, France, July 2003.

F. Del Frate, F. Rossi, G. Schiavon, U.M.A. Schiavoni Schiavoni, D. Solimini, "Observations of urban changes through a neural network fed by multitemporal SAR data", Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing, Valencia, Spain, September 2002.

F. Del Frate, G. Schiavon, U.M.A. Schiavoni Schiavoni, D. Solimini, "SAR interferometry for monitoring changes in urban areas", Atti Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi, vol. 56. pp. 1039-1045, 2001.

G. Schiavon, D. Solimini, A. Mandile, "Modeling returns from urban manufacts: Simulation results for finite trihedrals", IGARSS'01, Sidney, Australia, Aug. 2001.