Elena Chiricallo is a PhD student in Environmental Sciences at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and at the Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT) of the Italian Institute of Technology. Her academic journey began at the University of Bari Aldo Moro where she earned a Master’s Degree in High Energy Physics with a thesis on Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
Elena is currently completing her PhD at CCHT under the supervision of Dr. Arianna Traviglia and Professor Sebastiano Vascon. She works with the Centre’s archaeologists to develop innovative deep learning pipelines for supporting large-scale archaeological prospection on satellite Earth Observation data, with a specific focus on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data.
Through her doctoral studies, Elena has developed expertise in Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation and SAR data processing and analysis. During her stay at ESA Phi-Lab, she will explore the potential of Geospatial Foundation Models for archaeological applications, evaluating their performance in data-scarce scenarios.
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