Participation in the international scientific conference DESSERT’2022

In December 9-11, teachers and students presented the results of their research at the international scientific conference DESSERT’2022 (12th International IEEE Conference Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies).

Head of the Department Nataliia Kussul spoke on the topic “Big Satellite Data and Artificial Intelligence for Food and Environmental Security” at the plenary section “Big Data and Big Safety”, where she highlighted the importance of using artificial intelligence to satellite data for monitoring land cover for the state’s economy, especially during the war, when it is not possible to obtain information from the occupied territories.… Continue reading

Scientific Seminar “Data, Intelligence and Algorithms”

The Department held a meeting within the framework of the international scientific seminar “Data, Intelligence and Algorithms” in a remote format.

The report “Deep Learning for satellite monitoring” was made by Leonid Shumilo, a graduate student of the Department of MMAD, a graduate student of the University of Maryland, a specialist in deep neural networks and satellite data.… Continue reading

Participation in the international conference on satellite monitoring AGU22 (USA)

Authors: Leonid Shumilo, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Sergii Skakun, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, Andrii Shelestov, National technical university of Ukraine “Kyiv polytechnic institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine and Nataliia Kussul, Space Research Institute NAS Ukraine and SSA Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

As a member of The Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, Ukraine began establishing special environmental protected areas in early 2000 as part of the Global Emerald Network.… Continue reading

Defense of master’s theses for obtaining a master’s degree in applied mathematics

On December 19, the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Data Analysis of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute hosted the defense of master’s theses.

Students of the ФІ-11мп group successfully defended their works on the educational and professional program “Methods of mathematical modeling, pattern recognition and computer vision” and received the qualification of “Masters of Applied Mathematics”.… Continue reading

Meeting on the OCRE project

On December 6-7, 2022, the final meeting of the Open Clouds for Research Environment (OCRE) project was held in Lisbon. In the work of the section “Real-World EO Digital Services Adoption Stories and Lessons for the Future”, assistant of the department Hanna Yailymova spoke on the topic “Quantitative assessment of damage from the war in Ukraine based on satellite monitoring data with the support of the European initiative Earth Observation for Ukraine (EO4UA)” and told how the OCRE project opens up modern opportunities for further development for Ukrainian scientists.… Continue reading

WorldCereal project meeting at the International Meteorological Organization

On 22-23 November 2022, the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva hosted the final meeting of the #WorldCereal project, which developed a global arable land monitoring system based on satellite monitoring data. At the meeting the results of the project and the steps of project development, validation of the resulting maps and the existing problems and ways of overcoming them were discussed.… Continue reading

Professors of the MMDA department are included in the open database of the world’s most cited scientists

On the International Day of Science, the MMDA department welcomes all scientists and is proud that two professors of our department, prof. Nataliia Kussul and prof. Andrii Shelestov, included in the open database of the world’s most cited scientists, created by Stanford University based on a standardized methodology that takes into account various citation indices, the influence of scientific publications where the works are published, and even the serial number of the author in the publication.… Continue reading