Ecv ice Sheets Technical Proposal

9.3IREA personnel

Gianfranco Fornaro received the M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Naples “Federico II” in 1992 and 1997, respectively. Since 1993 he has been with IREA-CNR, where he is currently a senior researcher working in the area of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) focusing, SAR interferometry and SAR tomography. He has been adjunct professor in the area of communications in several Universities, currently at the University of Napoli “Parthenope”. Dr. Fornaro has been visiting scientist at the Politecnico of Milano and at the German Aerospace Establishment (DLR), also for within the Italy-Germany cooperation during the SIR-C/X-SAR mission. He has been United Nation consultant at the Istituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA) in Sao José dos Campos (Brazil) and at RESTEC (Tokyo). Since 2010 Dr. Fornaro has been lecturer at the International radar/SAR Summer School of the Fraunhofer Institute. He has been also convener, tutorial lecturer and chairman of sessions dedicated to SAR processing and SAR interferometry in several international conferences. Dr. Fornaro has authored more than a hundred of papers (peer-review journals and proceedings of international conferences); in 2005 served as Editor of the “Advances in Interferometric SAR processing” special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (JASP). He is currently Guest Editor of the “Recent Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging” special issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and Associate Editor of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. He received the Mountbatten Premium by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) in 1997, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Geoscience and 2011 Remote Sensing Letters Best Paper Award and the Mention for Best 2011 Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing journal. Within the project he will coordinate the development and test of algorithms for the densification of DInSAR measurement to improve the spatial coverage of the measurements obtained with the Small Baseline Subset technique.

Paolo Berardino graduated in 1998 in Nautical Sciences at the Naval Institute University Naples Italy with thesis on SAR Geocoding. He joined IREA (formerly IRECE) CNR in Naples in 1999, where he is a Researcher. He is interested in the development of algorithms geocoding of SAR images and studies of surface deformation by using differential SAR interferometry ( DIFSAR ). In particular, he applied the technique DIFSAR in volcanic areas such as Etna and Campi Flegrei for monitoring and modeling of the sources of deformation, and in the urban area of Naples for the study of subsidence related to the excavation of the new underground .He has collaborated in the development of a new approach for the analysis of the temporal evolution of the deformation of the Earth's surface based on the combination of differential interferograms ( SBAS technique ). Over the years he has participated actively in the upgrading of technical SBAS ( high resolution, geometric registration, data integration ERS/Envisat , GIS integration ). He has participated in several studies of volcanic areas ( Etna , Campi Flegrei, Vesuvius, Tenerife) , seismogenic ( central Apennines , Greece ), landslide areas ( Maratea ) and urban areas (Naples , Los Angeles ) using the technique SBAS and collaborating with different national scientific institutions ( Vesuvius Observatory, INGV, IRPI ) and international ( JPL , UCM ). He has participated as an instructor at the Indo- Italian workshop entitled " Recent Developments in SAR Interferometry Technology and Application ", in 2001 at the Centre of Studies in Resuorces Engineering - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Diego Reale received the M.S. degree in Telecomunication Engineering from the University of Cassino, Italy, in 2007 and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy, in 2011.Since 2006, he has been collaborating with the Istitute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, , Italian National Research Council (IREA-CNR), Naples, where he is currently a Researcher. In October 2010, he visited the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). His main research interests are framed in the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing, with particular reference to multidimensional SAR tomography, SAR interferometry, and differential SAR interferometry. His main interests include the development and application of SAR tomography on satellite data for the monitoring of urban areas. Dr. Reale was awarded at the Student Competition at the Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event in Munich, Germany, in 2011. In 2012, he was awarded for the best article of 2011 by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society for the paper entitled “Tomographic Imaging and Monitoring of Buildings With Very High Resolution SAR Data”. He has been serving as regular Reviewer for the IEEE Transaction Geoscience and Remote Sensing and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters journals.

10External services

No external services shall be required for the project.

11Facilities and resources

11.1INGV

Among the facilities which shalll be exploited by the project, the major ones are the national GPS network and seismic network, which are managed by INGV staff (partially also project staff).

Concerning the remote sensing project activities, INGV will use a cluster of 16 computing nodes, with a 64 GB RAM for multi-temporal SAR processing. The current disk space allocated for product generation is 20 TB, but can be increased if required. From the software point of view, INGV owns licenses to dedicated SAR processing software, such as that distributed by GAMMA Remote Sensing and Consulting (CH) and SARmap (CH). It also currently runs several freely avialable software, such as the Stanford Method for Persistent Scatterers (StaMPS), ROI_PAC (distributed by JPL-Caltech), DORIS (distributed by the University of Delft). Finally, it owns licenses to widely used software packages, such as Matlab, ENVI, IDL, ArcGIS.

Concerning seismic hazard, INGV has a recently developed infrastructure named Seismic Risk Centre (Centro di Pericolosità Sismica) used for i) modeling of seismic risk integrating various data sources; ii) handling of the generated databases; iii) output of seismic hazard models, also through web interfaces. Software tools are under development to allow a comparison of different hazard models according to standardized formats and shared computing resources to allow a rapid sensitivity assessment.

INGV has subscriptions to all major seismological, geophysical and engineering journals.