Al a Aal o 1.0 β!
i.e. AiLan hus Visual Analysis and Recogni ion based on Ailan hus Al issima Labeled T aining Objec s!
Summa y
Al a Aal o is a cloud-based applica ion o he econnaissance and mapping o Ailan hus al issima. The
sys em combines a GIS-p epa ed aining and con ol da ase (Aal o) wi h he Google Ea h Engine
p ocessing sc ip (Al a ), which e ie es mul ispec al and he mal sa elli e image y, ex ac s key spec al
and opog aphic ea u es, and pe o ms la ge-scale classi ica ion o e an a ea o in e es using
es ablished machine-lea ning me hods. The ou pu consis s o a classi ied as e map and ec o ized
polygons o po en ial A. al issima p esence, suppo ing he assessmen o ee in asion pa e ns.!
The Al a algo i hm is based on he assump ion ha Sen inel-2 image y, al hough only ba ely sufficien in
esolu ion, can s ill be exploi ed o de ec he p esence o such ees. Al a Aal o is he esul o he sha ed
wo k o he au ho s, who a e each in ol ed in s udies ela ed o A. al issima in asi eness. !
Au ho s
Ma co Ciol i 1* ORCiD 0000-0003-4831-8053!
Emilio Badalamen i 2 3 ORCiD 0000-0002-8178-354X!
F ancesca Chiocchini 1 ORCiD 0000-0002-5122-8756!
Ma co Lau e i 1 ORCiD 0000-0003-1071-7999!
Paola Pollegioni 1 3 ORCiD 0000-0001-6388-1931!
1 Ins i u e o Resea ch on Te es ial Ecosys ems o he Na ional Resea ch Council, Po ano, I aly!
2 Depa men o Ag icul u al, Food and Fo es Sciences, Uni e si y o Pale mo, I aly!
3 Na ional Biodi e si y Fu u e Cen e , Pale mo, I aly !
* Con ac Ma co Ciol i - ma co.ciol i@cn .i !
Dis ibu ion
The Aal o aining se e e s o Pan elle ia Island, in he sou he n Medi e anean, I aly. The Ailan hus
al issima p esence and absence poin s we e collec ed h ough local ield su eys. The da ase is eleased
unde he C ea i e Commons A ibu ion In e na ional license CC BY 4.0. !
The Al a 1.0 β sc ip is dis ibu ed unde he GNU GPL 3.0 license. I is p o ided wi hou any wa an y o
accu acy o pe o mance, and no speci ic esul s a e claimed o gua an eed.!
The dis ibu ion package is composed o he ollowing ou iles:!
•_README.pd – his documen !
•man.pd – he manual, co e ing inpu p epa a ion and sc ip execu ion!
•al a . x – he Google Ea h Engine Ja aSc ip code!
•aal o.gpkg – a GeoPackage con aining an example inpu da ase based on a ield su ey on
Pan elle ia Island, sou he n Medi e anean, I aly. !
Al a Aal o: Any e e ence o he ou s anding Finnish a chi ec is pu ely coinciden al; he ac onym eme ged na u ally om i s
echnical componen s— hough he name was admi edly oo elegan o esis .
doi:10.5281/zenodo.17672767!
No embe 2025
