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

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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
2026Journal6thurl

2025

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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
2025Journal1sturl
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”
2025Journal1sturl
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
2025Journal6thurl
Ceschini, A., Panella, M., Carbone, A., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B. (2025)
“On hybrid quanvolutional neural networks optimization”
Quantum Machine Intelligence
2025Journal4th-
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
2025Journal4thurl
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
2025Journal10thurl
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
2025Journal4th-
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
2025Journal3rdurl
Serva, F., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B., Ricciuti, F. (2025)
“MUMUCD: A Multimodal Multiclass Change Detection Dataset”
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
2025Journal2ndurl

2024

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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
2024Journal1st-
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
2024Journal1sturl
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
2024Journal8th-
De Falco, F., Ceschini, A., Panella, M., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B. (2024)
“Quantum Hybrid Diffusion Models for Image Synthesis”
Ki Kunstliche Intelligenz
2024Journal4th-
De Falco, F., Ceschini, A., Panella, M., Sebastianelli, A., Le Saux, B. (2024)
“Towards Efficient Quantum Hybrid Diffusion Models”
Arxiv
2024Journal4th-
De~Falco, F., Ceschini, A., Panella, M., Sebastianelli, A., Le~Saux, B. (2024)
“Quantum latent diffusion models”
Quantum Machine Intelligence
2024Journal4th-
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
2024Journal5th-
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
2024Conference4th-
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
2024Conference3rd-
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
2024Journal3rd-
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
2024Journal5th-
Russo, L., Gamba, P., Mauro, F., Ullo, S.L., Sebastianelli, A. (2024)
“SEN12-WATER: A New Dataset for Hydrological Applications and its Benchmarking”
Arxiv
2024Journal5th-
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
2024Conference6th-

2023

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Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Del Rosso, Maria Pia, Ullo, Silvia Liberata, Gamba, Paolo (2023)
“On Quantum Hyperparameters Selection in Hybrid Classifiers for Earth Observation Data”
2023Journal1sturl
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
2023Conference6th-
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
2023Conference5th-
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
2023Conference2nd-
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
2023Conference5th-
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
2023Journal6th-

2022

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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
2022Journal1sturl
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
2022Journal1st-
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
2022Conference1st-
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
2022Journal1st-
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
2022Conference2nd-
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
2022Conference2nd-

2021

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Alessandro Sebastianelli, Francesco Mauro, Gianluca Di Cosmo, Fabrizio Passarini, Marco Carminati, Silvia Liberata Ullo (2021)
“{AIRSENSE”
{ISPRS
2021Journal1sturl
Sebastianelli, A., Del Rosso, M.P., Ullo, S.L. (2021)
“A SAR speckle filter based on residual convolutional neural networks”
arXiv
2021Journal1st-
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
2021Journal1st-
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
2021Journal1st-
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
2021Journal1st-
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
2021Journal1st-
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
2021Journal1st-
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
2021Conference1st-
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
2021Journal1st-
Sebastianelli, Alessandro, Del Rosso, Maria Pia, Ullo, Silvia Liberata (2021)
“Automatic dataset builder for Machine Learning applications to satellite imagery”
SoftwareX
2021Journal1sturl
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
2021Book-ch2ndurl
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
2021Journal2nd-
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
2021Journal2nd-
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
2021Journal2ndurl
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
2021Journal2nd-
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
2021Journal3rd-
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
2021Journal3rd-
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
2021Journal2nd-
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
2021Journal3rd-
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
2021Journal3rdurl

2020

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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
2020Journal1st-
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)
2020Conference3rd-
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
2020Journal2nd-

2019

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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
2019Conference5thurl

2018

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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)
2018Conference7thurl
S. L. {Ullo (2018)
“2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)”
2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)
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