Ph.D. in Urban And Regional Development , 33rd cycle (2017-2020)
Ph.D. obtained in 2021
Dissertation:
Generation of a Land Cover Atlas of environmental critic zones using unconventional tools (Abstract)
Tutors:
Marco Piras Alessandro PezzoliProfile
Research interests
Biography
Elena Belcore is a researcher in Geomatics at the Politecnico of Turin, Italy. In 2016, she earned her M.Sc. degree in Forestry and Environmental Science, further honing her expertise in the field. She then embarked on a career in research and international organizations, starting as a Junior officer at UNESCO-WWAP from 2016 to 2017. During this period, she worked on the collection and analysis of gender-disaggregated water data. In May 2021, defended her PhD in Geomatics at the Politecnico of Turin. Her doctoral research was focused on the classification of land cover in critical areas, using cutting-edge satellite and drone-derived imagery at very high thematic and spatial resolutions. Currently, she continues her research in the field of artificial intelligence for high-resolution environmental monitoring and mapping. Her research activities are diverse, encompassing geomatics for smart and precision agriculture. She specializes in sensor integration for creating digital twins in agriculture, as well as geospatial and multitemporal data collection. Her research interest is the semantic segmentation and classification of very high-resolution drone datasets for environmental monitoring and vegetation cover.
Scientific branch
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)
Awards and Honors
Teaching
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Ingegneria Civile. Componente invitato
- Collegio di Ingegneria Elettronica, delle Telecomunicazioni e Fisica (ETF). Componente invitato
- Collegio di Ingegneria per l'Ambiente e il Territorio. Componente invitato
Teachings
Master of Science
- Geomatics. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Topografia. A.A. 2017/18, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Topografia. A.A. 2018/19, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Research fields
Supervised PhD students
- Muhammad Abraiz. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (cycle 39, 2023-in progress)
Publications
Works published during the Ph.D. View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Belcore, Elena (2021)
Generation of a Land Cover Atlas of environmental critic zones using unconventional tools. relatore: PIRAS, MARCO; PEZZOLI, Alessandro; , 33. XXXIII Ciclo, P.: 324
Doctoral Thesis - Belcore, Elena; Pittarello, Marco; Lingua, Andrea Maria; Lonati, Michele (2021)
Mapping Riparian Habitats of Natura 2000 Network (91E0*, 3240) at Individual Tree Level Using UAV Multi-Temporal and Multi-Spectral Data. In: REMOTE SENSING, vol. 13. ISSN 2072-4292
Contributo su Rivista - Belcore, Elena; Angeli, Stefano; Colucci, Elisabetta; Musci, MARIA ANGELA; Aicardi, Irene (2021)
Precision Agriculture Workflow, from Data Collection to Data Management Using FOSS Tools: An Application in Northern Italy Vineyard. In: ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION, vol. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. ISSN 2220-9964
Contributo su Rivista - Tiepolo, Maurizio; Belcore, Elena; Braccio, Sarah; Issa, Souradji; Massazza, Giovanni; ... (2021)
Method for fluvial and pluvial flood risk assessment in rural settlements. In: METHODSX (AMSTERDAM), vol. 8, pp. 0-16. ISSN 2215-0161
Contributo su Rivista - Belcore, Elena; Wawrzaszek, Anna; Wozniak, Edyta; Grasso, Nives; Piras, Marco (2020)
Individual Tree Detection from UAV Imagery Using Hölder Exponent. In: REMOTE SENSING, vol. 12. ISSN 2072-4292
Contributo su Rivista - Belcore, Elena; Colucci, Elisabetta; Aicardi, Irene; Angeli, Stefano (2020)
Analisi, classificazione e visualizzazione di dati UAV ad alta risoluzione spaziale e spettrale con l’utilizzo di FOSS. In: FOSS4G Italia 2020, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, febbraio 2020, pp. 31-32
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Belcore, Elena; Piras, Marco; Wozniak, Edyta (2020)
Specific alpine environment land cover classification methodology: Google Earth Engine processing for Sentinel-2 data. In: ISPRS 2020, pp. 663-670
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Belcore, E.; Piras, M.; Pezzoli, A.; Massazza, G.; Rosso, M. (2019)
Raspberry pi 3 multispectral low-cost sensor for uav based remote sensing. case study in south-west Niger. In: ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019, pp. 207-214. ISSN 2194-9034
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Belcore, Elena; Piras, Marco; Pezzoli, Alessandro; Massazza, Giovanni; Rosso, Maurizio (2019)
Detection of temporary surface water bodies in Niger using high resolution imagery. In: EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, 7-12 Aprile 2019
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Tiepolo, Maurizio; Rosso, Maurizio; Massazza, Giovanni; Belcore, Elena; Suradji, Issa; ... (2019)
Flood Assessment for Risk-informed Planning Along the Sirba River, Niger. In: SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 11, pp. 1-21. ISSN 2071-1050
Contributo su Rivista - Belcore, Elena; Massazza, Giovanni; Pezzoli, Alessandro; Tiepolo, Maurizio; Rosso, ... (2018)
Applicazioni geomatiche in aree ad elevata criticità climatica e infrastrutturale finalizzate allo sviluppo di un Early Warning System per le inondazioni del fiume Sirba nell’ambito del Progetto ANADIA II (Niger). In: 63° Convegno nazionale SIFET (Società Italiana di Topografia e Fotogrammetria) - Applicazioni in ambienti estremi, Gaeta (LT), Giugno 2018
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Massazza, Giovanni; Tamagnone, Paolo; Pezzoli, Alessandro; Housseini, Mohamed; Belcore, ... (2018)
Améliorations sur le système d’observation du bassin de la Rivière Sirba pour la gestion des risques naturels. In: Enjeux et Actualités des Observatoires de la Zone Critique en Afrique, Niamey, Novembre 2018
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Belcore, Elena; Calvo, Angela; Canessa, Carolin; Pezzoli, Alessandro (2017)
A Methodology for the Vulnerability Analysis of the Climate Change in the Oromia Region, Ethiopia. In: Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics / Tiepolo Maurizio; Pezzoli Alessandro; Tarchiani Vieri, S.L., Springer, pp. 73-102. ISBN: 978-3-319-59096-7
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