News

Sep 24, 2026 New preprint on EGUsphere: NISAR pixel offsets measure but do not statistically resolve pre-failure motion at the 26 August 2026 Bhote Koshi ice–rock avalanche, Nepal.
Sep 22, 2026 Full NISAR study posted on Research Square: NISAR offsets measure pre-failure motion but do not single out the Bhote Koshi avalanche source.
Aug 21, 2026 Released open weights for the two 867M-parameter ChronoSat encoders (MAE and JEPA) on Zenodo, CC BY 4.0. :rocket:
Aug 15, 2026 New EarthArXiv preprint with Xiaochuan Tang and Filippo Catani: masked autoencoding outperforms joint-embedding prediction for frozen-probe very-high-resolution landslide segmentation, with foundation models trained on 4.85 million aerial patches.
Apr 01, 2026 Joined the Geophysics Department of OGS, Trieste, as Principal Investigator of the FIS-funded NATURA project. :sparkles:
Jan 12, 2026 Global landslide mapping using U-Net with diverse backbones across multi-regional and multi-sensor data is published in Frontiers in Earth Science.
Jul 27, 2023 Our globally distributed landslide training set HR-GLDD is out in Earth System Science Data.
Aug 11, 2021 Defended my PhD in Applied Geoinformatics at the University of Salzburg (Z_GIS). :mortar_board: