Assistant Professor with time contract
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)
Profile
Biography
Elena Belcore is a young researcher in Geomatics at the Politecnico of Turin, Italy. She graduated in 2014 in Forestry and Environmental Science at the University of Turin. In 2015, she took part to the University of Turin International Cooperation project, dealing with climate change-induced water scarcity in southern Ethiopia. In 2016, she received her M.Sc. degree in Forestry and Environmental Science. She worked as Junior officer for the UNESCO-WWAP (2016-2017), focusing on collecting and analysing gender-disaggregated water data. In May 2021, she defended her PhD in Geomatics at the Politecnico of Turin on Land Cover's classification in critical areas at very high thematic and spatial resolutions, using satellite- and drone-derived imagery. Currently she pursues her research on artificial intelligence for high-resolution environmental monitoring and mapping. Her ongoing research activities deal with semantic segmentation and classification of very high-resolution drone datasets in coastal areas for the detection of woody debris and plastic pollutants; Machine learning and Neural Networks for riverine bathymetry; Automatic and semi-automatic mapping of climate change-induced natural hazards.
Awards and Honors
- Premio Giovani SIFET conferred by SIFET (Società Italiana di Fotogrammetria e Topografia), Italy (2018)
- Best Paper Award GISTAM conferred by International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM) (2022)
Fellowships
- Effective member - Società Italiana di Fotogrammetria E Topografia, Italia (2019-)
Teaching
Courses of Study Boards
- Collegio di Ingegneria Civile. Componente invitato
- Collegio di Ingegneria per l'Ambiente e il Territorio. Componente invitato
Teachings
PhD
- Tecniche geomatiche innovative per il monitoraggio di strutture, infrastrutture e territorio. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Geomatics. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatica. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Geologia applicata/Topografia (modulo di Topografia). A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Topografia. A.A. 2017/18, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Topografia. A.A. 2018/19, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Topografia. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Research fields
Publications
PoliTO co-authors
Latest publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
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Spadavecchia, Claudio; Belcore, Elena; Grasso, Nives; Piras, Marco (2023)
A fully automatic forest parameters extraction at single-tree level: a comparison of MLS and TLS applications. In: 12th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology (MMT 2023), Padova, 24-26 Maggio 2023, pp. 457-463
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Belcore, Elena; Piras, Marco (2023)
Sentinel 2 High-Resolution Land Cover Mapping in Sub-Saharan Africa with Google Earth Engine. In: 9th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 27-36. ISBN: 978-989-758-649-1
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Spadavecchia, Claudio; Belcore, Elena; Di Pietra, Vincenzo (2023)
Preliminary test on structural elements health monitoring with a LiDAR-based approach. In: International Workshop "Photogrammetric and computer vision techniques for environmental and infraStructure monitoring, Biometrics and Biomedicine" – PSBB23, Mosca, 24-26 Aprile 2023, pp. 247-253. ISSN 1682-1777
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Grasso, Nives; Spadavecchia, Claudio; Belcore, Elena; Di Pietra, Vincenzo (2023)
LiDAR and SfM-MVS Integrated Approach to Build a Highly Detailed 3D Virtual Model of Urban Areas. In: 9th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, Praga, 24-27 Aprile 2023, pp. 128-135. ISBN: 978-989-758-649-1
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Belcore, E.; Di Pietra, V. (2022)
Laying the foundation for an artificial neural network for photogrammetric riverine bathymetry. In: Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4g), pp. 51-58. ISSN 2194-9034
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)