Our work was presented at the international conference IGARSS 2024

Professor of our department Andrii Shelestov and 1st-year master’s student Sofiia Drozd presented 4 of our papers at the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024), which took place on July 7-12, 2024 in Athens, Greece.

Two papers on “Features’ Selection for Forest State Classification Using Machine Learning on Satellite Data” (authors Yevhenii Salii, Volodymyr Kuzin, Alla Lavreniuk, Nataliia Kussul) and “A multimodal dataset for forest damage detection and machine learning” (authors Hanna Yailymova , Bohdan Yailymov, Yevhenii Salii, Volodymyr Kuzin, Andrii Odruzhenko, Serhii Sydorenko, Andrii Shelestov, Nataliia Kussul), were performed within the framework of the HORIZON Europe project “Satellites for Wilderness Inspection and Forest Threat Tracking” (SWIFTT) and were devoted to the use of machine learning in engineering signs for determining damaged forests based on satellite data, as well as forming a data set on the basis of which research was conducted.… Continue reading

Project “Information technologies of geospatial analysis of the development of rural areas and communities”

Name: Information technologies of geospatial analysis of the development of rural areas and communities.
Duration: 2023-2024

The project is financed by the external aid instrument of the European Union for the fulfillment of Ukraine’s obligations in the European Union Framework Program for Scientific Research and Innovation “Horizon 2020”

Project manager: Doctor of Science, Professor of the Department of MMAD Shelestov A.Yu.… Continue reading

The NASA Space App Challenge global hackathon took place

On October 7-8, the NASA Space App Challenge hackathon took place, where the masters of our department and the team of the Applied Mathematics Club took part.

Their team «Fireflies Squad» chose the challenge «Managing Fire: Increasing Community-based Fire Management Opportunity» and used machine learning and NASA satellite data to model the speed of fire spread and quickly inform and prevent large losses.… Continue reading

Start of the project «Innovative solutions for the restoration of the Mediterranean ecosystem through monitoring and decontamination from chemical pollution»

On June 1, a new project «Innovative solutions for the restoration of the Mediterranean ecosystem through monitoring and decontamination from chemical pollution» was launched, the participants of which are the team of our department.

Due to various external factors, the Mediterranean basin is very vulnerable to chemical accumulation and pollution.… Continue reading

Results of the German-Ukrainian DAAD project “DigiJED-​2: Digital Education with Joined Efforts” 2022 and development in 2023

The main goal of the DijiJED educational project is to support the educational process at Ukrainian universities under martial law. The project envisages the creation of a concept of collaborative digital learning in the field of information and communication technologies.

The educational project involves students of the 3-4th year of bachelor’s and 1st year of master’s degree, as well as Ukrainian teachers, some of whom already work at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences or teach from Ukraine, as well as teachers from Germany and North Macedonia.… Continue reading

Results of the German-Ukrainian DAAD project “DigiJED: digital education through joint efforts” 2022 and development in 2023

The main goal of the DijiJED educational project is to support the educational process in Ukrainian universities under martial law. The project envisages the creation of a concept of joint digital learning in the field of information and communication technologies. Students of 3-4 years of bachelor’s degree and 1 year of master’s degree, as well as Ukrainian teachers, some of whom already work at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, or who teach from Ukraine, as well as teachers from Germany and North Macedonia, participate in the educational project.… Continue reading

The “Fundamentals of Space Activities” educational course

On 15. 09. 2022 an open online presentation of the educational course “Fundamentals of Space Activities” initiated by the COSMOS Association took place. The course is aimed at a wide range of specialists (researchers, engineers, managers, postgraduates, students) who are interested in obtaining basic knowledge of current problems of space activities, priorities of international programmes for research and use of outer space.… Continue reading