VOLTA

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 734687.

The H2020 VOLTA activities are supported by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science (former: Ministry of Science and Higher Education) in the frame of H2020 co-financed projects No. 3934/H2020/2018/2 and 379067/PnH/2017.

H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016: innoVation in geOspatiaL and 3D daTA – VOLTA, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016 Ref. GA No. 734687.

Project leader: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK): Dr Fabio Remondino

Partners: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover (LUH), Technische Universität Wien (TUW), University of Warsaw (UW), Delft University of Technology (TUD), Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN), Ordnance Survey (OS), Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC), Centrul National De Cartografie (CNC), Geodetski Zavod Celje, D.O.O. (GZC), Vermessung AVT ZT GmbH (AVT), Vexcel Imaging GMBH (VIG), Geoimaging LTD (GEO)

The term of the project: 01.06.2017-30.11.2022,
Web page: volta.fbk.eu, Newsletter & Flyer, Tweeter

Geodata are datasets that have a spatial, temporal and thematic aspect to describe phenomena and processes in time, space and topic. Geodata, or geospatial data, are nowadays collected and produced with various sensors and techniques which provide for images, 3D point clouds, thematic maps, etc.
Geodata are used in many Geosciences and for various applications such as urban planning, territorial management, damage assessment, environmental monitoring, 3D city modelling, renewable energy assessment, land registry, heritage documentation, etc. Despite a growing market, a large number of applications, a vast series of publications and various acquisition and processing techniques, there are still many unresolved research questions on the automation of processing procedures, and on how to make them more reliable, powerful and scale-invariant. Moreover, an efficient availability, access and use of geospatial data are often missing. This hinders the growth of new applications and societal welfares. Progress in provision of efficiently and effectively derived 3D geospatial information is thus the key to more comprehensive, faster and better exploitation of geodata, for the benefit of individuals and societies. Last but not least, new occupations are emerging in the geospatial industry which requires capacity building for developing new applications of geospatial technologies.

The VOLTA project, through secondments, training activities and networking, will facilitate knowledge exchange and career progresses in the geospatial field. The project will develop innovative solutions to:

• automatically provide metric information from images,
• fuse heterogeneous data coming from various sensors,
• segment 2D and 3D geospatial data
• process large geospatial datasets in the Cloud.

The project shares and exploits the complementary expertise of the partners to produce and transfer new skills and innovative solutions for mapping agencies and geospatial companies.

Secondments:

• Dr. hab. Małgorzata Krówczyńska, Geoimaging LTD (GEO), Cyprus, 2022/10/11-2022/11/10, WP4: Segmentation & semantic enrichment of geospatial data.
• Dr. Ewa Wilk, Geoimaging LTD (GEO), Cyprus, 2022/10/11-2022/11/10, WP4: Segmentation & semantic enrichment of geospatial data.
• Dr. Marlena Kycko, Ordnance Survey (OS), UK, 2022/10/10-2022/11/11, WP5: Big data & geoprocessing web services.
• Dr. Marlena Kycko, Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC), Spain, 2020/01/16-2020/02/22, WP3: Data & sensor integration.
• Dr. Edwin Raczko, Geodetski Zavod, Celje, D.O.O. (GZC), 28/2/2019 – 30/6/2019, WP4: Segmentation & semantic enrichment of geospatial data.
• Dr. hab. Bogdan Zagajewski, Centrul National De Cartografie (CNC), 2018/12/13-2019/03/13, WP3: Data & sensor integration.
• Dr. Marlena Kycko, Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC), Spain, 2018/09/17-2018/11/17, WP3: Data & sensor integration.
• Dr. Anna Zmarz, Vermessung AVT ZT GmbH (AVT), Austria, 2018/01/08-2018/04/07, WP2: Automation in photogrammetry.

Hosting VOLTA partners from:

• CSPCOT Earth Observation Program, Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; 18/06/ – 17/07/2019, WP3: Data & sensor integration (processing of airborne and satellite data processing for environmental mapping),
• Centrul National de Cartografie, Bucharest, Romania; 2 persons; 26/08/ – 25/09/2019, WP3: Data & sensor integration (processing of airborne and satellite data processing for environmental mapping),
• Terra Messflug GmbH/Vermessung AVT-ZT GmbH, Imst, Austria; 26/08/ – 24/09/2019, WP4: Segmentation & semantic enrichment of geospatial data (processing of airborne data processing for environmental mapping),
• Geodetski zavod Celje d.o.o., Celje, Slovenia; 01/09/ – 31/10/2019, WP4: Segmentation & semantic enrichment of geospatial data (processing of Sentinel 2 data processing for environmental mapping),
• CSPCOT Earth Observation Program, Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; 16/09/ – 15/10/2019, WP3: Data & sensor integration (processing of airborne hyperspectral data processing for environmental mapping).

Papers:

• Zagajewski B., Kluczek M., Zdunek K.B., Holland D., 2024. Sentinel-2 Versus PlanetScope Images for Goldenrod Invasive Plant Species Mapping. Remote Sensing, 16(4), 636. DOI: 10.3390/rs16040636 (IF 5.0, 100 MNiSW points).
• Kycko M., Zagajewski B., Kluczek M., Tardà A., Pineda L., Palà V., Corbera J., 2022. Sentinel-2 and AISA Airborne Hyperspectral Images for Mediterranean Shrubland Mapping in Catalonia. Remote Sensing, 14(21), 5531. DOI:10.3390/rs14215531 (IF 5.349, 100 MEiN points).
• Kluczek, M., Zagajewski, B., Kycko, M. 2022. Airborne HySpex Hyperspectral Versus Multitemporal Sentinel-2 Images for Mountain Plant Communities Mapping. Remote Sensing 14(5):1209. DOI:10.3390/rs14051209 (IF 5.349, 100 MEiN points).
• Dabija A., Kluczek M., Zagajewski B., Raczko E., Kycko M., Al-Sulttani A.H., Tardà A., Pineda L., Corbera J., 2021. Comparison of Support Vector Machines and Random Forests for Corine Land Cover Mapping. Remote Sensing 13, 777, DOI: 10.3390/rs13040777 (IF 5.349, 100 MEiN points).
• Zagajewski B., Kluczek M., Raczko E, Njegovec A., Dabija A., Kycko M., 2021. Comparison of Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, and Neural Networks for Post-Disaster Forest Species Mapping of the Krkonoše/Karkonosze Transboundary Biosphere Reserve. Remote Sensing 13(13), 2581. DOI: 10.3390/rs13132581 (IF 5.349, 100 MEiN points).
• Dąbski M., Zmarz A., Rodzewicz M., Korczak‐Abshire M., Karsznia I., Lach K.M., Rachlewicz G., Chwedorzewska K.J., 2020. Mapping Glacier Forelands Based on UAV BVLOS Operation in Antarctica. Remote Sensing 12(4). DOI: 10.3390/rs12040630 (IF: 4,118, 100 MNiSW points).
• Sabat-Tomala A., Raczko E., Zagajewski B., 2020. Comparison of Support Vector Machine and Random Forest Algorithms for Invasive and Expansive Species Classification using Airborne Hyperspectral Data. Remote Sensing, 12(3), 516, doi: 10.3390/rs12030516 (IF 4.118, 100 MNiSW points).
• Raczko E., Zagajewski B. 2018. Tree species classification of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Karkonoski National Park (Poland) using artificial neural networks and APEX hyperspectral images. Remote Senssing, 10(7), 1111, DOI: 10.3390/rs10071111 (IF 3.406, 35 MNiSW points).

Presentations:

• Kluczek M., Zagajewski B., Zwijacz-Kozica T. 2022. Kartowanie drzewostanów Tatr na podstawie danych teledetekcyjnych i algorytmów uczenia maszynowego, XXV Ogólnopolska Konferencja Fotointerpretacji i Teledetekcji, 28-30.11.2022.
• Krówczyńska M., Wilk E., Raczko E. Preliminary results of the asbestos cement roofing identification and determinants influencing the current state of the asbestos economy in Cyprus. Final VOLTA project meeting, 17-18.11.2022, Graz, Austria.
• Kycko M., Zagajewski B., Kluczek M., Tardà A., Pineda L., Palà V., Corbera J. Sentinel-2 and AISA airborne hyperspectral images for Mediterranean shrubby formation communities detection in Catalonia. Final VOLTA project meeting, 17-18.11.2022, Graz, Austria.
• Sabat-Tomala A., Raczko E., Zagajewski B. Invasive and expansive plant species mapping using airborne HySpex hyperspectral data, Random Forest and Support Vector Machine algorithms. Final VOLTA project meeting, 17-18.11.2022, Graz, Austria.
• Zagajewski B., Kluczek M., Dabija A., Raczko E., Kycko M., Al Sulttani A., Tardà A., Pineda L., Corbera J. Comparison of Support Vector Machines and Random Forests for Corine Land Cover Mapping. Final VOLTA project meeting, 17-18.11.2022, Graz, Austria.
• Kluczek M., Dabija A., Zagajewski B., Raczko E., Kycko M., Al-Sulttani A. H., Tardà A., Pineda L., Corbera J., Assessment of the Effectiveness of Land Cover Classification According to Corine Land Cover Nomenclature, 40th EARSeL Symposium European Remote Sensing – New Solutions for Science and Practice, Warsaw 2021, 7-10 June (virtual conference).
• Kluczek M., Zagajewski B., Raczko E., Njegovec A., Gryguc K., Dabija A., Kycko M., Comparison of Random Forest and Support Vector Machines for forest species mapping of the UNESCO Krkonoše/Karkonosze Transboundary Biosphere Reserve, 40th EARSeL Symposium European Remote Sensing – New Solutions for Science and Practice, Warsaw 2021, 7-10 June (virtual conference).
• Kluczek M., Zagajewski B., Dabija A., Raczko E., Kycko M., Al-Sulttani A.H., Tardà A., Pineda L., Corbera J., Ocena przydatności obrazów Sentinel-2 do klasyfikacji pokrycia terenu według Corine Land Cover. Wykorzystanie Danych Satelitarnych i Danych Programu Copernicus w Administracji i Sektorze Prywatnym (Use of Satellite Data and Copernicus Data in Administration and the Private Sector), 31.03.-01.04.2021, Warsaw (virtual conference).
• Kycko M., Zagajewski B., Tardà A., Pineda L., Palà V., Corbera J., Evaluating a Potential of Satellite and Airborne Data for Shrubby Formation Communities Detection, 40th EARSeL Symposium European Remote Sensing – New Solutions for Science and Practice, Warsaw 2021, 7-10 June (virtual conference).
• Kycko M, Zagajewski B., Applications of hyperspectral remote sensing and fluorescence methods for wheat phenological change monitoring. ESA Living Planet Symposium, 02 Emerging Technologies: Advances on Hyperspectral Imaging and Processing, 13-17.05.2019, Milan, Italy. 
• Kycko M, Zagajewski B., Hyperspectral remote sensing for monitoring of recultivated plants of alpine ecosystems. ESA Living Planet Symposium, 01 Biosphere: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Modelling: Scalability of Plant Traits, Essential Biodiversity Variables and Ecosystem Functional Properties from the Leaf to the Ecosystem Level, 13-17.05.2019, Milan, Italy.
• Zagajewski B., Kycko M., Hyperspectral remote sensing and fluorescence methods for wheat phenological change monitoring. Session 3: Emerging technologies and integrated applications in Agriculture, United Nations/Romania International Conference on Space Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture and Precision Farming, 06-10.05.2019, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania.
• Kycko M. (UW, Poland), Tarda A., Corbera J. (ICGC, Spain), Classification of scrubs using Sentinel, LiDAR and hyperspectral data, 3rd Workshop H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016: innoVation in geOspatiaLand 3D daTA – VOLTA, 4-5.04.2019, Larnaca, Cyprus.
• Sabat-Tomala A., Raczko E., Zagajewski B. Airborne hyperspectral, LiDAR and field data fusion for invasive and expansive plant species identification. 3rd Workshop H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016: innoVation in geOspatiaLand 3D daTA – VOLTA, 4-5.04.2019, Larnaca, Cyprus.
• Zagajewski B., Nimbalkar P., Płaza I., Kycko M., Parvu I., Cuibac I., Dogaru M. Hyperspectral band selection for feature extraction. 3rd Workshop H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016: innoVation in geOspatiaLand 3D daTA – VOLTA, 4-5.04.2019, Larnaca, Cyprus.
• Cuibac I., Kycko M., Nimbalkar P., Parvu A., Parvu I., Parvulescu N., Płaza I., Raczko E., Sabat-Tomala A., Samulowska M., Zagajewski B. 2D-2D data and sensor fusion. Introduction & Implementation.  1st joint Workshop: Geospatial data acquisition and processing. Centrul National de Cartografie, 07.03. 2019, Bucharest, Romania.
• Zagajewski B. Remote sensing as an effective tool for environmental monitoring. 1st joint Workshop: Geospatial data acquisition and processing. Centrul National de Cartografie, 07.03. 2019, Bucharest, Romania.
• Kycko M., Secondment to ICGC on 17/09/-17/11/2018 (within WP3 tasks), Mid-Term Meeting, 24.01.2019, Trento, Italy. Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), via Sommarive 18, Trento
• Kycko M. Assessment of vegetation conditions on natural parks by using hyperspectral data. Workshop CSPCOT nº30 – Observació de la Terra i espai forestal, eines de diagnòstic. Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, 08 November 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
• Kycko M., Zagajewski B., Jarocińska A., Sabat-Tomala A., Raczko E., Sławik Ł., Pasierbiński A., Folcik Ł., Błońska A., Nowak T., Tokarska-Guzik B. Identification of the expansive species Rubus spp. using the Random Forest and Support Vector Machines algorithm, ID: 156, session: ICWG II/III – Pattern Analysis in Remote Sensing. ISPRS Symposium „Towards Photogrammetry 2020”, 3-7 June 2018, Riva del Garda, Italy.
• Zagajewski B., Płaza I., Jarocińska A., Sławik Ł., Błońska A., Nowak T., Tokarska-Guzik B., Sabat-Tomala A., Kycko M. Assessment of airborne hyperspectral HySpex images and ALS data for the identification of Natura 2000 habitat 6520: Mountain Yellow Trisetum and Bent-grass Hay Meadows (Polygono-Trisetion and Arrhenatherion), ID: 124, session: ICWG II/III – Pattern Analysis in Remote Sensing. ISPRS Symposium „Towards Photogrammetry 2020”, 3-7 June 2018, Riva del Garda, Italy.
• Zmarz A., Rodzewicz M., Bosshard M., Moskopp E., Moe K., Schreiner Ch., Korczak-Abshire M., Karsznia I., Dąbski M., Chwedorzewska K.J. Orthophotomap of the Western Shore of Admiralty Bay (King George Island, South Shetland Islands) developed on the basis of UAV obtained images. XXXVII Polar Symposium „Polar Change – Global Change” 8-10 June 2018, Poznań, Poland.

PhD. thesis:

• M.Sc. Marcin Kluczek. Assessment of remote sensing data and machine learning algorithms for vegetation classification in the Tatra Transboundary Biosphere Reserve. Supervisor: Dr. hab. Bogdan Zagajewski (2021-2024, in progress).
• Dr. Prakash Madhav Nimbalkar. Optimal HySpex band selection for roof classification determined from supervised classifier efficiency. Supervisors: Dr. hab. Bogdan Zagajewski, Dr. Anna Jarocińska (PhD defence: 12/04/2022, acceptance of the PhD exam: 28/04/2022).

M.Sc. thesis:

• Assessment of the effectiveness of land cover classification according to Corine Land Cover nomenclature (Ocena skuteczności klasyfikacji pokrycia terenu według wydzieleń Corine Land Cover). Supervisors: Dr. hab. Bogdan Zagajewski, Dr. Edwin Raczko. Reviewer: Dr. Anna Jarocińska. MSc. exam: 24.06.2021.
• Assessment of Sentinel-2 satellite images for mapping of forests in Gabon (Ocena przydatności obrazów satelitarnych Sentinel-2 do kartowania lasów Gabonu). Supervisors: Dr. Eng. Agata Hościło, Dr. hab. Bogdan Zagajewski. Reviewer: Dr. Edwin Raczko. MSc. exam: 17.09.2018, (details).
• Assessment of nonparametric algorithms for deadwood identification on the HySpex hyperspectral aerial image (Ocena przydatności nieparametrycznych algorytmów do identyfikacji posuszu na obrazie lotniczym hiperspektralnym HySpex). Supervisor: Dr. hab. Bogdan Zagajewski. Reviewer: Dr. Edwin Raczko. MSc. exam: 16.07.2018, (details).

Events:

• Final VOLTA project meeting, 17-18 November 2022, Graz, Austria.
• Geoinformatyczna Noc Badaczy 2022 (Researches’ Night), 30 September 2022, Warsaw, Poland.
• Geoinformatyczna Noc Badaczy 2021 (Researches’ Night), 30 September 2021, Warsaw, Poland.
• Geoinformatyczna Noc Badaczy 2020 (Researches’ Night), 30 September 2020, Warsaw, Poland.
• Geoinformatyczna Noc Badaczy 2019 (Researches’ Night), 27 September 2019, Warsaw, Poland.
• Summer School and Workshop on Evaluation and Benchmark of Sensors and Systems in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 16-20.09.2019, Warsaw, Poland.
• 3rd Workshop H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016: innoVation in geOspatiaLand 3D daTA – VOLTA, 4-5.04.2019, Larnaca, Cyprus.
• 1st joint Workshop of the CNC and UW: Geospatial data acquisition and processing, 07 March 2019, Bucharest, Romania.
• Progress and mid-term review meeting, 23-24.01.2019, Trento, Italy.
• Geoinformatyczna Noc Badaczy (Researches’ Night), 28 September 2018, Warsaw, Poland.
• 1st EARSeL Workshop UAS “UAS for mapping and monitoring”, September 05-07, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland.
• ISPRS Symposium „Towards Photogrammetry 2020”, 3-7 June 2018, Riva del Garda, Italy.
• 5th GIS Forum (V Forum GIS), 28 February, 2018, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Warsaw (photos, programme in Polish),
• Geoinformatyczna Noc Badaczy (Researches’ Night), 29 September 2017, Warsaw, Poland (photos),
• Kick-off meeting, 6-7 June 2017, Hannover, Germany.