Important Dates

Key deadlines for authors and participants of GeoAI4SD 2026.

Call for Papers Opens

April 15, 2026

Paper Submission Deadline

May 30, 2026

Extended to June 26, 2026

Notification of Acceptance

June 29, 2026

Camera-Ready Submission

July 3, 2026

Registration Deadline

July 4, 2026

Conference Dates

July 8–9, 2026

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Conference Programme

Programme of GeoAI4SD 2026

Day 1 – July 8, 2026

All session times are displayed in Morocco Standard Time (GMT+1).

Time Activity
Opening Ceremony
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome address by the Director of IAV Hassan II
09:10 – 09:20 Welcome address by Dr. Latifa Daadaoui (Erasmus+)
09:20 – 09:30 Welcome address by Prof. Kenza Ait El Kadi, Project Coordinator of DTT4SD at IAV Hassan II
Keynote Session 1
09:30 – 09:50 Prof. Željko BAČIĆ
Digital Technology for Agriculture
University of Zagreb, Croatia
09:50 – 10:10 Prof. Fatma TRABELSI
Artificial Intelligence for Smarter Water Management in AI4Water Project
ESIM, Tunisia
10:10 – 10:30 Zeineb Kassouk
Remote Sensing and Geospatial AI for Geomodelling Land Degradation in the Joumine Watershed, Tunisia
Zeineb Kassouk1, Raoudha Haboubi2, Inaam Ghariani1, Mariem Chammam2
1 Laboratory GREEN-TEAM LR17AGR01, University of Carthage, National Agronomic Institute of Tunisia, Tunisia
2 Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities of Manouba, Tunisia
10:30 – 11:00 Discussion and Q&A
11:00 – 11:15 Break
Keynote Session 2
11:15 – 11:35 Prof. Said LAARIBYA
Climate Change and Spatio-Temporal Land Cover Dynamics in Talassemtane National Park (Morocco): Insights from Artificial Intelligence and Google Earth Engine
Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
11:35 – 11:55 Prof. Hicham HAJJI
Next-Gen Geospatial AI: Deep Dive into Geospatial Foundation Models
IAV Hassan II, Morocco
11:55 – 12:15 Dr. Tarik BENABDELOUAHAB
Monitoring Crop Development Through Phenology-Based Remote Sensing
INRA, Morocco
12:15 – 12:30 Discussion and Q&A

Day 2 – July 9, 2026

All session times are displayed in Morocco Standard Time (GMT+1).

Time Activity
09:00 – 12:30 PhD Students' Presentations – Session 1
09:00 – 09:20 Zakaria Ntihebuwayo
From Black Box to Geological Discovery: Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Causal Inference Applied to Rare Earth Exploration in Gakara (Burundi)
09:20 – 09:40 Asmaa Moussaoui
Mapping and Analysis of Rurban Dynamics: A Hybrid Approach Integrating Geospatial and Socio-Demographic Data
09:40 – 10:00 Walid Elbarz
National-Scale Crop Type Mapping in Morocco Using Google AlphaEarth Foundations Embeddings and the Fields of the World Field Boundary Map
10:00 – 10:20 Marwa Zerrouk
Monitoring of the Sidi Moussa Oualidia Wetland Using Remote Sensing Indices with Google Earth Engine
10:20 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:55 PhD Students' Presentations – Session 2
10:35 – 10:55 Emmanuel Yerbo
GeoAI-Driven Precision Agriculture: A Self-Trained 1D-CNN for Spectral-Temporal Vegetation Mapping and Variable-Rate Nitrogen Prescription in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality, Ghana
10:55 – 11:15 Maha Machdoud
Smartphone-Based Photogrammetry for Biomass Assessment in the Middle Atlas Rangelands
11:15 – 11:35 Aya Zitane
Weakly Supervised Mapping of Tree-Based Agriculture Using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 and Auxiliary Geospatial Data
11:35 – 11:55 Hassan Hani
GeoAI-Based Analysis of the Relationship Between Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics and GRACE-Derived Data in Errachidia Province, Morocco
11:55 – 12:30 Closing Discussion & Final Remarks

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Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers for review by the Scientific Committee.

Email: dtt4sd@gmail.com
Subject: Paper Submission – GeoAI4SD 2026