Associate Professor
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST)
Profile
Research interests
Biography
Andrea Ajmar, Ph.D., is an expert in the field of Spatial Data Science, geodatabase management and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) development and implementation. He has a solid expertise in environmental management, gained during working experiences both for public and private sector: this expertise provided the correct user perspective, fundamental in the design of efficient and effective database structures and comprehensive SDI solutions. He was the responsible for the realization of UN WFP SDI, a dedicated infrastructure for emergency management in a complex distributed environment: high-availability and redundancy, federated database structures were therefore firstly introduced inside humanitarian organizations operating worldwide. He currently holds the position of fixed-term researcher at the Politecnico di Torino, with teaching positions in master's degrees and doctoral courses. It is part of the laboratory called SDG11Lab which aims to create a spatial data infrastructure capable of guaranteeing efficient access to data sources of general interest (e.g. satellite and airborne acquisitions, reference cartographic data, etc.) and to integrate them with specific thematic data, providing analysis, representation and visualization tools capable of responding to the needs of research teams.
Curriculum
Scientific branch
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)
Research topics
- Spatial Data Science techniques applied to transportation datasets
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Awards and Honors
- BEST POSTER PAPER AWARD conferred by ISPRS (2008)
Fellowships
- Effective member - Associazione Universitari di Cartografia e Topografia, Italia (2020-)
- Vice-President - International Working Group on Satellite Emergency Mapping, Italia (2013-2014)
- Secretary - ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) ICWG IV/VIII - Updating and Maintenance of Core Spatial Databases, Stati Uniti (2008-2012)
- Scientific Committee member - ASITA, Italia (2008-2012)
- Effective member - Associazione Italiana di Cartografia, Italia (2003-2013)
Editorial boards
- REMOTE SENSING (2019-2021), Guest Editor of magazine or editorial series
Conferences
- GISTAM 2020 (7/5/2020-9/5/2020), Program committee
- GISTAM 2019 (3/5/2019-5/5/2019), Program committee
Teaching
PhD Boards
- URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO - URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Courses of Study Boards
- Collegio di Pianificazione e Progettazione. Componente
Teachings
PhD
- Advanced geospatial data management. A.A. 2023/24, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
- Advanced geospatial data management. A.A. 2022/23, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher
- Advanced geospatial data management. A.A. 2021/22, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
- Advanced geospatial data management. A.A. 2020/21, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Main teacher
Master of Science
- Geomatics for Urban and Regional Planning. A.A. 2023/24, PIANIFICAZIONE URBANISTICA E TERRITORIALE. Titolare del corso
- Geographic Information Systems. A.A. 2023/24, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics for Urban and Regional Analysis. A.A. 2022/23, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Titolare del corso
- Geographic Information Systems. A.A. 2022/23, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
- Geomatics for Urban and Regional Analysis. A.A. 2021/22, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geographic Information Systems. A.A. 2021/22, DIGITAL SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS. Titolare del corso
- Geomatics for Urban and Regional Analysis. A.A. 2020/21, PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE, URBANISTICA E PAESAGGISTICO-AMBIENTALE. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Laboratories
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- LEXIS - Large-scale EXecution for Industry & Society , (2019-2021) - Responsabile Scientifico
UE-funded research - H2020 - Industrial Leadership – LEIT - ICT
Supervised PhD students
- Qiurun Lu. Programme in Urban And Regional Development (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)
Publications
Last years publications
PoliTO co-authors
Publications by type
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- Corte, Elisabetta; Ajmar, Andrea; Camporeale, CARLO VINCENZO; Cina, Alberto; Coviello, ... (2023)
Multitemporal characterisation of a proglacial system: a multidisciplinary approach. In: EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA. PAPERS IN OPEN DISCUSSION. ISSN 1866-3591
Contributo su Rivista - Macelloni, Myrta Maria; Corte, Elisabetta; Ajmar, Andrea; Cina, Alberto; Giulio Tonolo, ... (2022)
Multi-platform, Multi-scale and Multi-temporal 4D Glacier Monitoring. The Rutor Glacier Case Study. In: Italian Conference on Geomatics and Geospatial Technologies (ASITA 2022), Genova, pp. 392-404. ISSN 1865-0929. ISBN: 978-3-031-17438-4
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Ajmar, Andrea; Arco, Emere; Eusebio, Allegra (2022)
The VIIRS Nighttime Lights average annual global dataset: exploratory and brisk trend analysis on three different domains. In: 2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), Palermo (Italy), 14-16 Giugno 2022, pp. 454-459. ISBN: 978-1-6654-4280-0
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Garcia-Hernandez, R. J.; Goubier, T.; Schorlemmer, D.; Rakowsky, N.; Harig, S.; Ajmar, ... (2022)
Event-Driven, Time-Constrained Workflows: An Earthquake and Tsunami Pilot. In: HPC, Big Data, and AI Convergence Towards Exascale: Challenge and Vision / S.N., S.L., CRC Press, pp. 131-145. ISBN: 9781003176664
Contributo in Volume - Mazzoglio, Paola; Ajmar, Andrea; Parodi, Antonio; Bovio, Lorenza; Parodi, Andrea; ... (2022)
The WRF-ERDS workflow in the November 2020 Calabria flood event. In: ASITA 2021, Genova (IT) and online, July 1-2, 9, 16, 23, 2021, pp. 95-105. ISSN 1865-0929. ISBN: 978-3-030-94425-4
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Mazzoglio, Paola; Ajmar, Andrea; Schumann, Guy J. P.; Balbo, Simone; Boccardo, Piero; ... (2021)
Satellite-Based Approaches in the Detection and Monitoring of Selected Hydrometeorological Disasters. In: The Increasing Risk of Floods and Tornadoes in Southern Africa / Nhamo G., Chapungu L., Cham, Springer, pp. 19-37. ISBN: 978-3-030-74191-4
Contributo in Volume - Arco, E.; Ajmar, A.; Cremaschini, F.; Monaco, C. (2021)
SPATIO TEMPORAL DATA CUBE APPLIED TO AIS CONTAINERSHIPS TREND ANALYSIS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE – FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL SCALE. In: XXIV ISPRS Congress, Nizza, Francia, 5-9 Luglio 2021, pp. 71-78. ISSN 2194-9034
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Mansueto, G.; Boccardo, P.; Ajmar, A. (2020)
Satellite Stereo Data Comprehensive Benchmark for DSM Extraction. In: 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2020, ita, 2020, pp. 858-873. ISBN: 978-3-030-58810-6
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Danylo, Olha; Sturn, Tobias; Giovando, Cristiano; Moorthy, Inian; Fritz, Steffen; See, ... (2017)
Picture Pile: A citizen-powered tool for rapid post-disaster damage assessments. In: 19th EGU General Assembly
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Ajmar, Andrea; Vanuzzo, Chiara (1997)
Variazioni oloceniche del settore Masino-Bregaglia. In: RENDICONTI - ISTITUTO LOMBARDO. ACCADEMIA DI SCIENZE E LETTERE. B. SCIENZE CHIMICHE E FISICHE, GEOLOGICHE, BIOLOGICHE E MEDICHE. ISSN 0392-9531
Contributo su Rivista