On early May 2019, the Cyclone Fani hit the central east coast of India flooding several areas.

On 22 April 2019, an M 6.1 earthquake struck the Philippines at 5:11 pm (local time).

Our two proposals were accepted for the 2nd Research Announcement on the Earth Observations (EO-RA2) coordinated by JAXA.

Torrential rain in late March 2019 hit the northern part of Iran causing extensive flooding in urban areas and surroundings.

The first heavy rain hit Northern Iran on 21st March 2019, and the second one hit southern and central Iran after just a few days. According to the authorities, most of the people in Pol-e Dokhtar town in Lorestan province were trapped in balconies and rooftops due to the huge amount of water on the streets.

Our two proposals were accepted for KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

Torrential rain on 21 March 2019 hits the northern part of Iran, leaving local people homeless in the Golestan province. Although the capital of the Golestan province (Gorgan city) is situated too far from the inundated area, Aqqala town has been seriously affected.

On late January 2019, extensive damage occurred due to the collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil.

Pleased to announce that two papers were accepted to CVPR 2019, Long Beach, CA.

Pleased to announce that two papers were accepted to IEEE ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK.

On September 28, 2018 (10:02:43 UTC), an M7.5 earthquake occurred 8km North of Palu, Indonesia, causing a tsunami with waves up to 2 m.

Submission for the special stream "Advanced Processing for Multimodal Optical Remote Sensing Imagery" of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters is open since October 1, 2018.

On September 28, 2018 (10:02:43 UTC), an M7.5 earthquake occurred 8km North of Palu, Indonesia, causing a tsunami with waves up to 2 m.

Our paper entitled "Multi-temporal Sentinel-1 and -2 data fusion for optical image simulation" has been published in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.

On September 15, 2018, the Typhoon Mangkhut caused extensive flooding in the northern region of the Philippines. The Geoinformatics Unit from RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project conducted a preliminary mapping of the flooded areas using satellite remote sensing imagery.

On September 6, 2018, an M6.7 earthquake occurred in the Hokkaido region, eastern Japan, causing severe damage and casualties. The Geoinformatics Unit from RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the International Research Institute of Disaster Science conducted a preliminary damage mapping using satellite remote sensing imagery (ALOS-2) acquired from the affected areas.

On August 29, 2018, extensive flooding occurred due to the collapse of the Swar Irrigation Dam in southern Myanmar.

On July 6, 2018, severe damage and causalities occurred due to the torrential rain in western Japan. The Geoinformatics Unit from RIKEN-AIP and the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) conducted a preliminary damage mapping using satellite remote sensing imagery (ALOS-2) acquired from the affected areas. The ALOS-2 data used in this analysis was provided by the large-scale disaster satellite image analysis support team of the National Aerospace Exploration Agency of Japan.

We are looking for motivated and skilled internship students who want to work on machine learning in remote sensing. Thesis projects are also welcomed.

Our work will be presented in seven contributions (four posters and three oral presentations) at <a href="https://igarss2018.org/default.asp">IGARSS 2018</a> in Valencia, Spain!! Bruno and Naoto will attend the conference. More details of our contributions are listed below.<br><br> Title: DAMAGE MAPPING AFTER THE 2017 PUEBLA EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO USING HIGH-RESOLUTION ALOS2 PALSAR2 DATA<br> Topic: Land Applications: Urban and Built Environment<br> Session: MOP2.PL: Urban and Built Environment I<br> Time: Monday, July 23, 15:50 - 16:50<br> Authors: Bruno Adriano, Shunichi Koshimura, Sadra Karimzadeh, Masashi Matsuoka, Magaly Koch<br><br> Title: SMALL SIZE CLASS PRESERVING CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SEGMENTATION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA<br> Topic: Data Analysis Methods (Optical, Multispectral, Hyperspectral, SAR): Classification and Clustering<br> Session: TUP1.PH: Classification of Hyperspectral Data<br> Time: Tuesday, July 24, 10:10 - 11:10<br> Authors: Tatsuya Yamada, Junshi Xia, Akira Iwasaki<br><br> Title: SUPERPIXEL BASED DIMENSION REDUCTION FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY<br> Topic: Data Analysis Methods (Optical, Multispectral, Hyperspectral, SAR): Classification and Clustering<br> Session: TUP1.PG: Spectral-Spatial Approaches in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing<br> Time: Tuesday, July 24, 10:10 - 11:10<br> Authors: Huilin Xu, Hongyan Zhang, Wei He, Liangpei Zhang<br><br> Title: MULTIPLE SOURCES DATA FUSION VIA DEEP FOREST<br> Topic: Invited Sessions: Data Fusion<br> Session: TU3.R7: Data Fusion I<br> Time: Tuesday, July 24, 14:10 - 15:50<br> Authors: Junshi Xia, Zuheng Ming, Akira Iwasaki<br><br> Title: THE DATA FUSION CONTEST 2018: ADVANCED MULTI-SENSOR OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING FOR URBAN LAND USE AND LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION<br> Topic: Invited Sessions: IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest<br> Session: WE1.R5: IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest<br> Time: Wednesday, July 25, 08:30 - 10:10<br> Authors: Naoto Yokoya, Bertrand Le Saux, Ronny Hänsch, Saurabh Prasad<br><br> Title: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FUSION-BASED CHANGE DETECTION METHODS FOR MULTI-BAND IMAGES WITH DIFFERENT SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS<br> Topic: Data Analysis Methods (Optical, Multispectral, Hyperspectral, SAR): Change Detection and Multi-Temporal Analysis<br> Session: WEP1.PJ: Techniques for Multi-temporal Optical Image Analysis<br> Time: Wednesday, July 25, 10:10 - 11:10<br> Authors: Vinicius Ferraris, Naoto Yokoya, Nicolas Dobigeon, Marie Chabert<br><br> Title: BOOSTING FOR DOMAIN ADAPTATION EXTREME LEARNING MACHINES FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION<br> Topic: Data Analysis Methods (Optical, Multispectral, Hyperspectral, SAR): Classification and Clustering<br> Session: WE4.R1: Learning and Domain Adaptation<br> Time: Wednesday, July 25, 16:50 - 18:30<br> Authors: Junshi Xia, Naoto Yokoya, Akira Iwasaki<br><br><br> Furthermore, we will organize the following invited sessions:<br><br> <a href="https://igarss2018.org/Papers/PublicSessionIndex3.asp?Sessionid=1371">TU3.R7: Data Fusion I</a><br> <a href="https://igarss2018.org/Papers/PublicSessionIndex3.asp?Sessionid=1372">TU4.R7: Data Fusion II</a><br> <a href="https://igarss2018.org/Papers/PublicSessionIndex3.asp?Sessionid=1328">WE1.R5: IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest</a><br><br>

Pleased to announce that our paper entitled "Joint & Progressive Learning from High-Dimensional Data for Multi-Label Classification," written by Danfeng Hong, Naoto Yokoya, Jian Xu, and Xiaoxiang Zhu was accepted to <a href="https://eccv2018.org/">European Conference on Computer Vision 2018</a>!! This paper proposes a linearized subspace learning technique to improve explainability, generalization, and cost-effectiveness. Experiments on hyperspectral remote sensing datasets and face datasets demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of the proposed method in comparison with previous state-of-the-art methods.

Our paper entitled "Open data for global multimodal land use classification: Outcome of the 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest" has been published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.<br><br> The paper summarizes the outcome of the 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest, which was focused on local climate zones classification using multimodal data (i.e., multitemporal Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, and OpenStreetMap).<br><br> More details are reported in the following open access paper:<br> N. Yokoya, P. Ghamisi, J. Xia, S. Sukhanov, R. Heremans, I. Tankoyeu, B. Bechtel, B. Le Saux, G. Moser, and D. Tuia, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8338367/">Open data for global multimodal land use classification: Outcome of the 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest</a>,” IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Observ. Remote Sens., vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 1363-1377, 2018.