Research topics and activities
Electromagnetic modelling
- Coherent and incoherent models of microwave emission and scattering from bare, vegetated or snow-covered soils
Image Processing
- Geocoding, calibration, filtering and DEM corrections of satellite images
SAR Interferometry
- Coherence analysis and interferometric modeling
Experiments
- Experimental campaigns on natural surfaces (agricultural fields, forests, snow covered areas) with ground based and airborne microwave and infrared sensors
- Lab. measurements of emission and scattering properties of natural material
Retrieval algorithms
- Generation of maps of geophysical parameters from microwave satellite data: Soil moisture (SMC), Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), Snow Depth (SD), vegetation biomass (PWC)
Instrumentation (IROE: Instrument of research for Observations of the Earth)
- Multifrequency/polarimetric airborne microwave radiometers for field experiments at L- (1.4 GHz), C- (5.6 GHz), X- (10 GHz), Ku- (19 GHz), Ka- (37 GHz) bands integrated with a thermal infrared sensor (8-14 μm)
Education
- Lessons, seminars, PhD courses