WINTER SCHOOL 2025 PROGRAM

On this page you will find the complete program of the Planetary geologic mapping winter school.

The schedule timing is intended in GMT+1 (CET)

1st Day

Monday - 10 February 2025

Intro

09:00 - 09:15
Welcome and introduction to the Winter School

09:15 - 09:30
Introduction to GMAP
Matteo Massironi

09:30 - 10:00
Introduction to planetary map projections
Giacomo Nodjoumi

10:00 - 10:30
Introduction to base mapping data sets
Riccardo Pozzobon

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:15
Free Open Source Software for Geospatial
Alessandro Frigeri

11:15 - 11:45
Introduction to QGIS
Riccardo Pozzobon

11:45 - 12:30
Introduction to Mappy
Riccardo Pozzobon / Luca Penasa

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Seminar Slot 1
Adriano Tullo - INAF , PANCO tool for pan-sharpening of multi and hyperspectral images

14:30 - 15:00
Seminar Slot 2
Angelo Zinzi, Giacomo Nodjoumi - ASI SSDC: the Matisse toolset

15:00 - 15:30
Seminar Slot 3
Jim Skinner - USGS Astrogeology: Planetary mapping

15:30 - 16:00  Break

16:00 - 17:00
Q&A time

2nd Day

Tuesday - 11 February 2025

Venus

09:00 - 10:00
Understanding Radar Data
Richard Ghail

10:00 - 10:30
Introduction to planetary body
Richard Ghail

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:30
Body-specific aspects
Richard Ghail

11:30 - 12:30
Mapping Hands on
Richard Ghail

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Seminar Slot 1
Giulia Alemanno - DLR VenSpec/Envision Lead Scientist
Envision - Understanding why Venus is so different from Earth

14:30 - 15:00
Seminar Slot 2
Iris van Zelst - University of Edinburgh
The quest for Venus quakes

15:00 - 15:30
Seminar Slot 3
Davide Sulcanese -  D'Annunzio University Venus Volcanism 
Insights into Volcanic Activity and Surface Evolution

15:30 - 16:00  Break

16:00 - 17:00
Q&A time

 3rd Day

Wednesday​ - 12 February 2025

Mercury

09:00 - 10:00
Introduction to planetary body
Valentina Galluzzi

10:00 - 10:30
Body-specific aspects (faculae & hollows)
Anna Galiano

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:30
GIS Project exploration
Lorenza Giacomini, Gloria Tognon

11:30 - 12:30
Mapping Hands on
Lorenza Giacomini, Gloria Tognon

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Seminar Slot 1
Amanda Vergara - INAF
Explorative Maps through Unsupervised Learning

14:30 - 15:00
Seminar Slot 2
Valentin Bickel - University of Bern
Machine Learning Mapping Techniques for Hollows

15:00 - 15:30
Seminar Slot 3
Silvia Bertoli - INAF
PSR on Mercury

15:30 - 16:00  Break

16:00 - 17:00
Q&A time

4th Day

Thursday​ - 13 February 2025

Moon and Citizen science

09:00 - 09:45
Moon Geology Introduction
Carolyn Van Der Bogert

09:45 - 10:00
Introduction to OpenCraterTool
Thomas Heyer

10:00 - 10:30
Crowd sourced mapping explanation and demo
Sandro Rossato

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30
Boulder counting hands on
Sandro Rossato

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Seminar Slot 1
Leonardo Carrer - ARESYS 
Identification and Characterization of a Lunar Cave below the Mare Tranquillitatis Pit by using Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

14:30 - 15:00
Seminar Slot 2
RIccardo La Grassa - INAF
Machine Learning Mapping of Lunar Craters

15:00 - 15:30
Seminar Slot 3
Simone Pirrotta - ASI
Moon Exploration: international scenario and ASI plans

15:30 - 16:00  Break

16:00 - 17:00
Q&A time

5th Day

Friday - 14 February 2025

Mars and 3D

09:00 - 09:30
Mars Introduction
Monica Pondrelli

09:30 - 09:45
VRGS introduction
David Hodgetts

09:45 - 10:30
VRGS demo on Mars
Susanna Tonoian, David Hodgetts

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30
VRGS hands on
Susanna Tonoian, David Hodgetts, Matteo Massironi

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Q&A time

14:30 - 15:00
WRAP-UP

School Organising Committee

Riccardo Pozzobon (UNIPD)
Barbara De Toffoli (UNIPD)
Javier Suarez (Constructor University)
Adriano Tullo (INAF)
Susanna Tonoian (UNIPD)
Matteo Massironi (UNIPD)
Giacomo Nodjoumi (SSDC-ASI)
Nicole Costa (UNIPD)
Gloria Tognon (UNIPD)
Beatrice Baschetti (UNIPD)

Instructors

Luca Penasa (INAF)
Thomas Heyer (WWU Munster)
Giacomo Nodjoumi (ASI - SSDC)
Richard Ghail (Royal Holloway University of London)
Valentina Galluzzi (INAF)
Lorenza Giacomini (INAF)
Carolyn Van der Bogert (WWU Munster)
Sandro Rossato (CNR)
Monica Pondrelli (D'Annunzio University)
David Hodgetts (VRGeoscience)
Susanna Tonoian (University of Padova)
Gloria Tognon (University of Padova)
Anna Galiano (INAF)
Alessandro Frigeri (INAF)

Lecturers

Angelo Zinzi (ASI - SSDC)
Iris van Zelst (University of Edinburgh)
Davide Sulcanese (D'Annunzio University)
Silvia Bertoli (INAF)
Amanda Vergara (INAF)
Valentin Bickel (University of Bern)
Simone Pirrotta (ASI)
Adriano Tullo (INAF)
La Grassa Riccardo (INAF)
Leonardo Carrer (Aresys)