Events

The main events managed by the IEEE Central Italy GRSS Chapter, together with IFAC-CNR, MWRSG, URSI comm.F, and Ce.Te.M., are:

• The MicroRad Symposium, held in US and Italy (mainly Florence and Rome) every 3 years. (see links to past symposiums at http://www.cetem.org)

• The Ce.Te.M./AIT biannual meeting (the last one was held at ISSIA-CNR in Bari on 4-5 december, 2012: http://res.ba.issia.cnr.it/cetem2012/)

• Seminars held in Florence at the Area della Ricerca del CNR and organized jointly with Ce.Te.M., URSI comm.F, IEEE Italy Section, and IEEE Central Italy GRSS Chapter

Chapter Presentation

• The IEEE South Italy Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRS) Chapter has been formally established in January 1, 2005, but it dates back as Central and South Italy GRS Chapter to the beginning of 90's.

• The petition to support the creation of the Chapter was submitted the 3rd of October 2001 by the IEEE members: Giorgio Franceschetti (Life Fellow), Paolo Corona (Fellow), Maurizio Migliaccio (Senior Member), Riccardo Lanari (Senior Member), Giuseppe Mazzarella (Senior Member), Eugenio Sansosti (Senior Member), Antonio Iodice (Member), Vito Pascazio (Member), Giovanni Leone (Member), Daniele Riccio (Senior Member), Francesco Mattia (Member), Paolo Berardino (Associate Member), Giuseppe Ricci (Member); and student members Maurizio Sarti, Giuseppe Ruello, Stefania Marsili, Mauro Emanuel Briganti, Raffaele Tiberio, Massimo Marrazzo.

• The GRS Chapter organizes on the topics of GRS:

Seminars

Workshops

Conferences

Awards

Laboratories

Cooperations

The MWRSG cooperates with several national and international institutions. Main cooperations are the following:

• University of Rome Sapienza
• University of Rome Tor Vergata
• EURAC in Bolzano
• Centro Difesa Valanghe di Arabba ARPAV - Belluno
• Aalto University in Helsinky (Finland)
• Technical University of Wien (Austria)
• STARLAB, Barcelona (Spain)
• Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
• USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD (USA)
• ITC, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente (The Netherland)
• IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)
• NASA (JPL, MIT)
• JAXA
• ESA/ESTEC

Main Achievements

Investigations on snowpack characteristics with active microwave sensors (SAR: ENVISAT/ASAR, CosmoSkyMed, TerraSAR-X)
	Generation of soil moisture (SMC) maps on a local scale from SAR sensors by using a Neural Network approach
Exploration of Antarctic Plateau with Microwave Radiometers (Dome-C) al L-band: calibration of satellite sensors (SMOS) and investigation of ice layers
	Global mapping of soil moisture (SMC) and vegetation biomass by using satellite multifrequency microwave radiometers (AMSR-E/AMSR2)