Publications
I started co-authoring scientific papers since 2018, during these years I collaborated with many researchers

Books
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite-based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation
Editors:
Maria Pia Del Rosso; Alessandro Pia Sebastianelli; Silvia Liberata Ullo
Published in 2021
283 pages
ISBN: 978-1-83953-212-2
e-ISBN: 978-1-83953-213-9
https://doi.org/10.1049/PBTE098E
Buy it on: IET Digital Library or Amazon
Papers
2026
| apa | year | type | position | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miroszewski, Artur, Nalepa, Jakub, Wijata, Agata M., Mielczarek, Jakub, Saux, Bertrand Le, Sebastianelli, Alessandro (2026) “Quo Vadis, Quantum Machine Learning?: Quantum kernel methods meet Earth observation” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine | 2026 | Journal | 6th | url |
2025
| apa | year | type | position | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Mauro, Francesco, Ciabatti, Giulia, Spiller, Dario, Le Saux, Bertrand, Gamba, Paolo, Liberata Ullo, Silvia (2025) “Quanv4EO: Empowering Earth Observation by Means of Quanvolutional Neural Networks” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2025 | Journal | 1st | url |
| Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Mauro, Francesco, Delilbasic, Amer, Stasio, Pietro Di, Fan, Fan, Meoni, Gabriele, Cavallaro, Gabriele, Zhu, Xiao Xiang, Gamba, Paolo, Ullo, Silvia (2025) “Quantum Machine Learning for Earth Observation: A Review and Future Prospects” | 2025 | Journal | 1st | url |
| Cavallaro, Gabriele, Singh, Upendra N., Miroszewski, Artur, Rudolph, Jan, Strangfeld, Aaron, Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Mauro, Francesco, Delilbasic, Amer (2025) “QUEST: A New Technical Committee for Quantum Earth Science and Technology [Technical Committees]” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine | 2025 | Journal | 6th | url |
| Ceschini, A., Panella, M., Carbone, A., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B. (2025) “On hybrid quanvolutional neural networks optimization” Quantum Machine Intelligence | 2025 | Journal | 4th | - |
| Mauro, Francesco, Razzano, Francesca, Stasio, Pietro Di, Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Meoni, Gabriele, Schirinzi, Gilda, Gamba, Paolo, Ullo, Silvia Liberata (2025) “Quantum-Enhanced Water Quality Monitoring: Exploiting $\Phi$ Sat-2 Data With Quanvolution” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters | 2025 | Journal | 4th | url |
| Nowakowski, Artur, Rosso, Maria Pia Del, Zachar, Paulina, Spiller, Dario, Gabara, Grzegorz, Barretta, Domenico, Kalinowska, Kamila Barbara, Choromański, Kamil, Wilkowski, Artur, Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Kupidura, Przemysław, Osińska-Skotak, Katarzyna, Ullo, Silvia Liberata (2025) “Transfer Learning in Earth Observation Data Analysis: A review” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine | 2025 | Journal | 10th | url |
| Russo, L., Mauro, F., Memar, B., Sebastianelli, A., Ullo, S.L., Gamba, P. (2025) “A Quantum-assisted Attention U-Net for Building Segmentation over Tunis using Sentinel-1 Data” 2025 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event Jurse 2025 | 2025 | Journal | 4th | - |
| Russo, Luigi, Mauro, Francesco, Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Gamba, Paolo, Ullo, Silvia Liberata (2025) “An End-to-End Framework for Multimodal and Multitemporal Analysis of Water Bodies Using the SEN12-WATER Dataset” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing | 2025 | Journal | 3rd | url |
| Serva, F., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B., Ricciuti, F. (2025) “MUMUCD: A Multimodal Multiclass Change Detection Dataset” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters | 2025 | Journal | 2nd | url |
2024
| apa | year | type | position | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sebastianelli, A., Ullo, S.L., Spiller, D., Carmo, R., Wheeler, J., Schneider, R., Nowakowski, A., Jacobson, L.V., Kim, D., Barlevi, H., Cordero, Z.E.R., Col{'o (2024) “A reproducible ensemble machine learning approach to forecast dengue outbreaks” Scientific Reports | 2024 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Serva, Federico, Ceschini, Andrea, Paletta, Quentin, Panella, Massimo, Le Saux, Bertrand (2024) “Machine learning forecast of surface solar irradiance from meteo satellite data” Remote Sensing of Environment | 2024 | Journal | 1st | url |
| Ceschini, A., De Falco, F., Verdone, A., Rosato, A., Panella, M., Mauro, F., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B., Gamba, P. (2024) “From Graphs to Qubits: A Critical Review of Quantum Graph Neural Networks” Arxiv | 2024 | Journal | 8th | - |
| De Falco, F., Ceschini, A., Panella, M., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B. (2024) “Quantum Hybrid Diffusion Models for Image Synthesis” Ki Kunstliche Intelligenz | 2024 | Journal | 4th | - |
| De Falco, F., Ceschini, A., Panella, M., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B. (2024) “Towards Efficient Quantum Hybrid Diffusion Models” Arxiv | 2024 | Journal | 4th | - |
| De~Falco, F., Ceschini, A., Panella, M., Sebastianelli, A., Le~Saux, B. (2024) “Quantum latent diffusion models” Quantum Machine Intelligence | 2024 | Journal | 4th | - |
| Ebel, P., Schneider, R., Jungbluth, A., Pourshamsi, M., Sebastianelli, A., Bonavita, M., Clare, M., Chantry, M., Alexe, M., Chrust, M. (2024) “2024 ESA-ECMWF workshop report: current status, progress and opportunities in machine learning for Earth system observation and prediction” Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | 2024 | Journal | 5th | - |
| Mauro, F., Del Rosso, M.P., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A., Gamba, P. (2024) “Qspecklefilter: A Quantum Machine Learning Approach for SAR Speckle Filtering” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS | 2024 | Conference | 4th | - |
| Mauro, F., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A., Saux, B.L., Gamba, P. (2024) “A Hybrid MLP-Quantum Approach in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Oceanic Ni{~n” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS | 2024 | Conference | 3rd | - |
| Papa, L., Amerini, I., Sebastianelli, A., Meoni, G. (2024) “On the impact of key design aspects in simulated Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks for Earth Observation” Arxiv | 2024 | Journal | 3rd | - |
| Reale, S., Stasio, P.D., Mauro, F., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A., Gamba, P. (2024) “Benchmarking of a new data splitting method on volcanic eruption data” Arxiv | 2024 | Journal | 5th | - |
| Russo, L., Gamba, P., Mauro, F., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A. (2024) “SEN12-WATER: A New Dataset for Hydrological Applications and its Benchmarking” Arxiv | 2024 | Journal | 5th | - |
| Russo, L., Memar, B., Gamba, P., Mauro, F., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A. (2024) “Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data for Water Bodies Mapping” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS | 2024 | Conference | 6th | - |
2023
| apa | year | type | position | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Del Rosso, Maria Pia, Ullo, Silvia Liberata, Gamba, Paolo (2023) “On Quantum Hyperparameters Selection in Hybrid Classifiers for Earth Observation Data” | 2023 | Journal | 1st | url |
| Mauro, F., Janku, F., Ullo, S.L., Rich, B., Muriga, V.W., Sebastianelli, A. (2023) “SEN2DWATER: A Novel Multispectral and Multitemporal Dataset and Deep Learning Benchmark for Water Resources Analysis” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS | 2023 | Conference | 6th | - |
| Mauro, F., Russo, L., Janku, F., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A. (2023) “Estimation of Ground NO2 Measurements from Sentinel-5P Tropospheric Data through Categorical Boosting” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for Extended Reality Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering Metroxraine 2023 Proceedings | 2023 | Conference | 5th | - |
| Mifdal, J., Sebastianelli, A., Tom{'a (2023) “Deep unfolding for hyper sharpening using a high-frequency injection module” IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops | 2023 | Conference | 2nd | - |
| Muriga, V.W., Rich, B., Mauro, F., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A. (2023) “A Machine Learning Approach to Long-Term Drought Prediction Using Normalized Difference Indices Computed on a Spatiotemporal Dataset” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS | 2023 | Conference | 5th | - |
| Spiller, D., Santin, G., Lucchini, L., Gallotti, R., Lepri, B., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B., Ullo, S.L., Lake, B. (2023) “Analysis of COVID-19 first wave in the US based on demographic, mobility, and environmental variables” Arxiv | 2023 | Journal | 6th | - |
2022
| apa | year | type | position | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alessandro Sebastianelli, Daniela Alessandra Zaidenberg, Dario Spiller, Bertrand Le Saux, Silvia Ullo (2022) “On Circuit-Based Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks for Remote Sensing Imagery Classification” {IEEE | 2022 | Journal | 1st | url |
| Sebastianelli, A., Del Rosso, M.P., Ullo, S.L., Puglisi, E., Pirri, F., Mifdal, J., Mathieu, P.P., Nowakowski, A. (2022) “PLFM: Pixel-Level Merging of Intermediate Feature Maps by Disentangling and Fusing Spatial and Temporal Data for Cloud Removal” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2022 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, A., Mauro, F., Di Cosmo, G., Ullo, S.L., Passarini, F., Carminati, M. (2022) “A Decision Support System Based on Machine Learning to Counteract Covid-Like Pandemic Events” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS | 2022 | Conference | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, A., Rosso, M.P.D., Ullo, S.L., Gamba, P. (2022) “A Speckle Filter for Sentinel-1 SAR Ground Range Detected Data Based on Residual Convolutional Neural Networks” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing | 2022 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Rosso, M.P.D., Sebastianelli, A., Ullo, S.L., Spiller, D. (2022) “A demo setup testing onboard CNNs for Volcanic Eruption Detection” 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Extended Reality Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering Metroxraine 2022 Proceedings | 2022 | Conference | 2nd | - |
| Stasio, P.D., Sebastianelli, A., Ullo, S.L., Meoni, G. (2022) “Early Detection of Volcanic Eruption through Artificial Intelligence on board” 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Extended Reality Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering Metroxraine 2022 Proceedings | 2022 | Conference | 2nd | - |
2021
| apa | year | type | position | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alessandro Sebastianelli, Francesco Mauro, Gianluca Di Cosmo, Fabrizio Passarini, Marco Carminati, Silvia Liberata Ullo (2021) “{AIRSENSE” {ISPRS | 2021 | Journal | 1st | url |
| Sebastianelli, A., Del Rosso, M.P., Ullo, S.L. (2021) “A SAR speckle filter based on residual convolutional neural networks” arXiv | 2021 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, A., Del Rosso, M.P., Ullo, S.L., Mathieu, P.P. (2021) “Paradigm selection for data fusion of SAR and multispectral sentinel data applied to land-cover classification” Arxiv | 2021 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, A., Del Rosso, M.P., Ullo, S.L., Nowakowski, A., Puglisi, E., Pirri, F., Mifdal, J., Mathieu, P.P. (2021) “Spatio-Temporal SAR-Optical Data Fusion for Cloud Removal via a Deep Hierarchical Model” Arxiv | 2021 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, A., Rosso, M.P.D., Ullo, S.L., Puglisi, E., Biondi, F. (2021) “A generation problem” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, A., Rosso, M.P.D., Ullo, S.L., Radius, A., Clemente, C., Orlando, D., Biondi, F., Wheeler, J. (2021) “A filtering problem: SAR speckle filtering” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, A., Rosso, M.P.D., Zarro, C., Martire, D.D., Napoli, M.D., Spiller, D., Nowakowski, A., Bonifacio, R., Kim, D.-H., Garcia-Herranz, M. (2021) “A classification problem” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, A., Tipaldi, M., Ullo, S.L., Glielmo, L. (2021) “A deep Q-learning based approach applied to the snake game” 2021 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2021 | 2021 | Conference | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, A., Ullo, S.L., Rosso, M.P.D., Zarro, C., Stewart, C., Apar{'i (2021) “Principles of satellite data analysis” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 1st | - |
| Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Del Rosso, Maria Pia, Ullo, Silvia Liberata (2021) “Automatic dataset builder for Machine Learning applications to satellite imagery” SoftwareX | 2021 | Journal | 1st | url |
| Daniela A. Zaidenberg, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Dario Spiller, Bertrand Le Saux, Silvia Liberata Ullo (2021) “Advantages and Bottlenecks of Quantum Machine Learning for Remote Sensing” 2021 {IEEE | 2021 | Book-ch | 2nd | url |
| Del Rosso, M.P., Sebastianelli, A., Ullo, S.L. (2021) “Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite-based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 2nd | - |
| Del Rosso, M.P., Sebastianelli, A., Ullo, S.L., Spiller, D., Mathieu, P.P. (2021) “On board volcanic eruption detection through CNNs and satellite multispectral imagery” Arxiv | 2021 | Journal | 2nd | - |
| Del Rosso, Maria Pia, Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Spiller, Dario, Mathieu, Pierre Philippe, Ullo, Silvia Liberata (2021) “On-Board Volcanic Eruption Detection through CNNs and Satellite Multispectral Imagery” Remote Sensing | 2021 | Journal | 2nd | url |
| Rosso, M.P.D., Sebastianelli, A., Aparicio, S., Wheeler, J. (2021) “How to create a proper EO dataset” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 2nd | - |
| Rosso, M.P.D., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A., Spiller, D., Puglisi, E., Biondi, F., Orlando, D. (2021) “Artificial neural network” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 3rd | - |
| Rosso, M.P.D., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A., Spiller, D., Puglisi, E., Martire, D.D., Aparicio, S., Addabbo, P. (2021) “Artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 3rd | - |
| Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A., Rosso, M.P.D., Bernardi, M.L., Spiller, D., Puglisi, E., Nowakowski, A., Cimitile, M. (2021) “Convolutional neural networks” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 2nd | - |
| Ullo, S.L., Rosso, M.P.D., Sebastianelli, A., Bernardi, M.L., Puglisi, E., Cimitile, M. (2021) “How to develop your network with Python and Keras” Artificial Intelligence Applied to Satellite Based Remote Sensing Data for Earth Observation | 2021 | Journal | 3rd | - |
| Ullo, Silvia Liberata, Mohan, Amrita, Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Ahamed, Shaik Ejaz, Kumar, Basant, Dwivedi, Ramji, Sinha, Ganesh R. (2021) “A New Mask R-CNN-Based Method for Improved Landslide Detection” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing | 2021 | Journal | 3rd | url |
2020
| apa | year | type | position | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sebastianelli, A., Mauro, F., Cosmo, G.D., Ullo, S.L., Passarini, F., Carminati, M. (2020) “AIRSENSE-TO-ACT: A concept paper for COVID-19 countermeasures based on artificial intelligence algorithms and multi-sources data processing” Arxiv | 2020 | Journal | 1st | - |
| De Corso, T., Mignone, L., Sebastianelli, A., Del Rosso, M.P., Yost, C., Ciampa, E., Pecce, M., Sica, S., Ullo, S. (2020) “Application of Dinsar Technique to High Coherence Satellite Images for Strategic Infrastructure Monitoring” International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) | 2020 | Conference | 3rd | - |
| Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A., Mohan, A., Dwivedi, R., Ahamed, S.E., Kumar, B., Sinha, G.R. (2020) “A new mask R-CNN based method for improved landslide detection” Arxiv | 2020 | Journal | 2nd | - |
2019
| apa | year | type | position | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ullo, S.L., Langenkamp, M.S., Oikarinen, T.P., Del Rosso, M.P., Sebastianelli, A., Piccirillo, F., Sica, S. (2019) “Landslide Geohazard Assessment with Convolutional Neural Networks Using Sentinel-2 Imagery Data” IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium | 2019 | Conference | 5th | url |
2018
| apa | year | type | position | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Di Martire, Diego, Confuorto, Pierluigi, Frezza, Annalisa, Ramondini, Massimo, Lopez, A. Vazquez, Pia Del Rosso, Maria, Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Ullo, Silvia L. (2018) “X- and C-band SAR data to monitoring ground deformations and slow-moving landslides for the 2016 Manta and Portoviejo earthquake (Manabi, Ecuador)” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE) | 2018 | Conference | 7th | url |
| S. L. {Ullo (2018) “2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE) | 2018 | Conference | - | url |
