Ecv ice Sheets Technical Proposal

Simone Atzori

Born

October 26, 1973, Rome (Italy).

Academic education

May 01 – Feb 04. Ph.D. in Remote Sensing, Electronic Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Thesis title: Algoritmi di inversione di dati geodetici SAR e GPS per la caratterizzazione geofisica di piani di faglia in ambiente GIS [Inversion algorithms to retrieve fault parameters in a GIS framework from SAR and GPS geodetic data]. Supervisors: Prof. Pierfrancesco Lombardo, Dott. Stefano Salvi, Dott. Ingrid Hunstad

Jan 1999. Esame di Stato [legal qualification to work as a professional engineer]

Sept 1992 – Oct 1998. Degree in “Engineering for the Environment”, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, with full marks (110/100 cum laude). Thesis title: Tecniche di impiego dell’interferometria da satellite SAR per l’analisi delle aree di esondazione [Assessment of flooded areas by SAR interferometry tecnique]. Supervisors: Prof. Roberto Guercio, Prof. Maria Marsella.

Professional experiences

Feb 04 – present. Research contract at INGV (Rome) for DInSAR data processing, modeling of seismic and volcanic displacement fields, GIS tools development, support to the Remote Sensing Lab website

Jun 02 – Feb 04. Grant from INGV (Rome) for DInSAR data processing and software development

Sept 03 – Dec 03. Contract as a Consultant for the Italian Civil Protection on the EGERIS European Project (web page http://www.egeris.org/); main activity on the development of a PDA prototype with GPS/GIS tools for on-field data retrieval/transmission during a generic natural hazard emergency

May 01 – May 02. Contract as a Consultant for the Italian Seismic Survey on the FORMIDABLE European Project (IST 1999 11679; web page http://www.formidable-project.org); main activity on research and development of GIS tools for the support of emergency activities at EMERCOM (National Operational Room)

Nov 00 – May 01. Contract as a Consultant for the Italian Seismic Survey; main activity on management of GIS data and procedures to support National Civil Protection response to a seismic emergency

Mar 00 – Nov 00. Grant from INGV (Catania) for studies of crustal deformation of Etna Volcano with the DInSAR tecnique

Jul 99 – Feb 00. Civil Service carried out at the Italian Seismic Survey; main activity on the management of GIS data and procedures to support National Civil Protection response to a seismic emergency

Dec 99 – Feb 00. Contract with University “La Sapienza” (Rome) for DInSAR data processing

Feb 99 – Apr 99. Contract with Osservatorio Vesuviano (Naples) for studies of DInSAR data on Campi Flegrei area.

Collaborations

gen - lug 2012. Working period at Sarmap s.a. (Purasca, Switzerland) for the implementation and development of the geophysical module in Sarscape ®

feb 2005 – apr 2005. Training period at COMET (Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes and Tectonics) in Oxford (UK), under the supervision of Barry Parsons e Philip England, to implement of algorithms for the seismic source modeling.

mar-giu 2004 Contract professor for the Topography and Campaign Cartography Laboratory at “La Sapienza” University, Engineering faculty.

2002 – 2004. Collaborations with the IREA-CNR (Naples) group (supervisor: Prof. Riccardo Lanari) for learning SBAS software (multitemporal DInSAR processor) and processing of SAR data.

Publications (Only peer-reviewed)

Ran, N. N., Baer, G., Ziv, A., Raz, E., Atzori, S. and S. Salvi (2013), Sinkhole precursors along the Dead Sea, Israel, revealed by SAR interferometry, Geology, doi: 10.1130/G34505.1

Pezzo, G., Merryman, J.P., Tolomei, C., Salvi, S., Atzori, S., Antonioli, A., Trasatti, E., Novali, F., Serpelloni, E., Candela, L. and R. Giuliani (2013), Coseismic deformation and source modeling of the May 2012 Emilia (Northern Italy) earthquakes, Seism. Res. Lett, 84(4), doi: 10.1785/0220120171.

Atzori, S., Chiarabba, C., Devoti, R., Bonano M. and R. Lanari, Anomalous far-field geodetic signature related to the 2009 L’Aquila (central Italy) earthquake, Terra Nova, doi: 10.1111/ter.12040.

Salvi S., Tolomei C., Merryman Boncori, J. P., Pezzo, G., Atzori, S., Antonioli, A., Trasatti, E., Giuliani, R., Zoffoli, S., and A. Coletta (2013) Activation of the SIGRIS monitoring system for ground deformation mapping during the Emilia 2012 seismic sequence, using COSMO-SkyMed InSAR data, Annals of Geophysics, 55, 4, doi: 10.4401/ag-6181.

Atzori, S., Tolomei, C., Antonioli, A., Merryman, J., Bannister, S., Trasatti, E., Pasquali, P. and S. Salvi, The 2010-2011 Canterbury, New Zealand, seismic sequence: multiple source analysis from InSAR and modeling, J. Geoph. Res., 117, B08305, doi:10.1029/2012JB009178, 2012

Atzori S., Understanding Earthquakes: the key role of radar images, Nuclear Instruments and Method, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A (special issue for the 2° Intern. Conf. Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies, 23-30 Nov 2011, INFN, Frascati), doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.12.005

Pezzo, G., Tolomei, C., Atzori, S., Salvi, S., Shabanian, E., Bellier, O. and Y. Farbod (2012), New kinematic constraints of the western Doruneh fault, north-eastern Iran, from interseismic deformation analysis, Geoph. Res. Lett., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05509.x

Gori, S., Falcucci, E., Atzori, S., Chini, M., Moro, M., Serpelloni, E., Fubelli, G., Saroli, M., Devoti, R., Stramondo, S., Galadini, F., Salvi, S. (2012), Constraining primary surface rupture length along the Paganica fault (2009 L’Aquila earthquake) with geological and geodetic (DInSAR and GPS) evidence, Italian J. Geosci. [accepted]

Romano, F., Piatanesi, A., Lorito, S., D’Agostino, N., Hirata, K., Atzori, S., Yamazaki, Y and M. Cocco (2012), Clues from joint inversion of tsunami and geodetic data of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, Nature Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/srep00385

Riguzzi, F., Atzori, S., Obrizzo, F., Pingue, F and G. Pietrantonio (2012), Recent terrestrial and satellite observations to model deformations at Colli albani volcano (central Italy), Int. J. Earth Science, doi: 10.1007/s00531-012-0763-6

Fornaro, G., Atzori, S., Calò, F., Reale, D. and S. Salvi (2012) Inversion of Wrapped Differential Interferometric SAR Data, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens , doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2173584

Moro, M., Chini, M., Saroli, M., Atzori, S., Stramondo, S. and S. Salvi (2011), Analysis of large, seismically induced, gravitational deformations imaged by high resolution COSMO-SkyMed synthetic aperture radar, Geology, 39, 527-530, doi: 10.1130/G31748.1

Atzori, S. and A. Antonioli (2011), Optimal fault resolution in geodetic inversion of coseismic data, Geophys. J. Int., 185, 529-538, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04955.x

Lorito, S., Romano, F., Atzori, S., Tong, X., Sandwell, D.T., Cocco, M., Boschi, E. and A. Piatanesi (2011), Did 2010 Mw 8.8 Chile earthquake fill the seismic gap? Insight by tsunami and DInSAR data, Nature Geoscience, 4, 173-177, doi: 10.1038/NGEO1073

Stramondo, S., Chini, M., Bignami, C., Salvi, S. and S. Atzori (2011), X-, C-, and L-Band DInSAR Investigation of the April 6, 2009, Abruzzi Earthquake, IEEE Geosci. and Rem. Sens. Let., 8(1), 49-53, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2051015

Esposito, A., Anzidei, M., Atzori, S., Devoti, R., Giordano, G., and G. Pietrantonio (2010), Modelling of a ydrothermal/geothermal system from GPS data: Panarea volcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy), Bull. Volc., 72, 609-621, doi: 10.1007/s00445-010-0346-y.

Atzori, S., (2009) “Italian quake analysis rumble in” interview for Nature, published online 10 September 2009, http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090910/full/news.2009.899.html, doi:10.1038/news.2009.899

Riguzzi, F., Pietrantonio, G., Devoti, R., Atzori, S. and M. Anzidei (2009), Volcanic unrest of the Colli Albani (central Italy) detected by GPS monitoring test, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 177, 79-87, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.07.012.

Atzori, S., Hunstad, I., Chini, M., Salvi, S., Tolomei, C., Bignami, C., Stramondo, S., Trasatti, E. Antonioli, A. and E. Boschi (2009), Finite fault inversion of DInSAR coseismic displacement of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake (Central Italy), Geoph. Res. Lett., 36, L15305, doi: 10.1029/2009GL039293

Chini, M., Atzori, S., Trasatti, E., Bignami, C., Kyriakopoulos, C., Tolomei, C. and S. Stramondo. (2009) The 12 May 2008 (Mw 7.9) Sichuan Earthquake (China): Multi-frame ALOS – PALSAR DInSAR Analysis of Coseismic Deformation, IEEE Geosci. and Rem. Sens. Let, 7(2), 266-270, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2032564

Hunstad, I., A. Pepe, S. Atzori, C. Tolomei, S. Salvi, and R. Lanari (2009), Surface deformation in the Abruzzi region, Central Italy, from multi-temporal DInSAR analysis, Geophis. J. Int.., 178(3), 1193-1197. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04284.x.

Tizzani, P., Battaglia, M., Zeni, G., Atzori, S. Berardino, P., and R. Lanari (2009), Uplift and Magma Intrusion at Long Valley caldera from InSAR and gravity measurements, Geology, 37(1), 63–66, doi: 10.1130/G25318A.1

Atzori, S., Manunta, M., Fornaro, G., Ganas, A and S. Salvi (2008), The postseismic displacement of the 1999 Athens earthquake retrieved by DInSAR time series, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B09309, doi:10.1029/2007JB005504

Manunta, M., Marsella, M., Zeni, G., Sciotti, M., Atzori, S. and Lanari, R. (2008), Two-scale surface deformation analysis using the SBAS-DInSAR technique: a case study of the city of Rome, Italy, Int. J. Rem. Sens., 29(6), 1665-1684, doi:10.1080/01431160701395278.

Sepe, E., Atzori, S., Ventura G. (2007), Subsidence due to crack closure and depressurization of hydrothermal systems: a case study from Mt. Epomeo (Ischia Island, Italy), Terra Nova, 19(2), 127-132, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00727.x.

Salvi, S., S. Atzori, C. Tolomei, J. Allievi, A. Ferretti, C. Prati, F. Rocca, S. Stramondo, N. Feuillet (2004), Inflation rate of the Colli Albani volcanic complex retrieved by the Permanent Scatterers SAR interferometry technique, Geoph. Res. Let, 31, L12606, doi:10.1029/2004GL020253.

Tolomei, C., Atzori, S., Salvi, S. and F. Doumaz (2003), A GIS tool for modelling surface displacement due to fault dislocation, Rapporto tecnico INGV n° 17, 28 pp.

Martini, M. G., Soddu, P. and S. Atzori, S.o.L. la procedura evento e l’ambiente operativo Quater, Rapporto tecnico Servizio Sismico Nazionale, SSN/RT/01/02