Winter School video session 2026
1st Day - Planetary Maps
Introduction to Europlanet / Welcome
Stavro Ivanovski
Introduction to planetary mapping and Riccardo's legacy
Matteo Massironi
Introduction to planetary map projections
Giacomo Nodjoumi
Introduction to base mapping data sets
Silvia Bertoli
Free Open Source Software for Geospatial: AI edition
Alessandro Frigeri
Introduction to QGIS and Mappy
Luca Penasa, Adriano Tullo
Geological mapping in QGIS
Luca Penasa, Adriano Tullo
2nd Day - Caves and Tubes on Mars
Introduction to Mars
Pierre-Antoine Tesson
Introduction to lava flows and tubes
Francesco Sauro
Martian volcanism
Pierre-Antoine Tesson
Mapping Hands on
Francesco Sauro, Alessandro Marraffa, Pierre-Antoine Tesson
Lava tubes on Venus
Barbara De Toffoli, Leonardo Carrer
Space Architecture
Francesco Romio
Microbiology in Caves
Martina Cappelletti
3rd Day - Landing Sites on the Moon
Introduction to the Moon
Harald Hiesinger
Landing site selection principles
Carolyn Van der Bogert
Lunar landing sites
Wajiha Iqbal
Mapping Hands on
Giacomo Melchiori, Gloria Tognon
Tools for landing site characterization
Steve Neira
Thermal models of lunar pits
Pamela Cambianica
NASA's Artemis program
Trent Hare
4th Day - Icy Mars
Introduction to water and ice on Mars
Barbara De Toffoli
Introduction to glacial landforms
Ernst Hauber
Martian periglacial landforms
Costanza Morino
Mapping Hands on
Silvia Bertoli, Nicole Costa
Below the ice of Martian polar caps
Roberto Orosei
Icy moons
Alice Lucchetti
5th Day - Terrestrial analogues
Terrestrial analogues exploration
Javier Suarez
VRGS demo Hands on – part 1
David Hodgetts, Susanna Tonoian
VRGS demo Hands on – part 2
David Hodgetts, Susanna Tonoian