Assistant Professor with time contract
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)
Profile
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)
Research topics
- Geomatics techniques employed in the construction of the geospatial component within Digital Twins for agricultural and environmental monitoring.
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
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)
- Premio pubblicazioni BAD (Borsisti, Assegnisti, Dottorandi) dell'Associazione Georisorse e Ambiente (GEAM) conferred by Associazione Georisorse e Ambiente (GEAM) (2022)
Fellowships
- Effective member - Società Italiana di Fotogrammetria E Topografia, Italia (2019-)
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
PhD
- Tecniche geomatiche innovative per il monitoraggio di strutture, infrastrutture e territorio. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- 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. 2023/24, CIVIL ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratory of GIS and Geospatial Service for engineering Applications. A.A. 2023/24, CIVIL ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatica. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Agri-Tech: Technologies for a sustainable agriculture. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Topografia. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Geologia applicata/Topografia (modulo di Topografia). A.A. 2021/22, 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 (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
Publications
Latest publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- 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; 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) - 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)