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National Research Council (CNR)
CNR is the main research body in Italy.
The researchers involved in BIO_SOS come
from four Institutes of CNR with different expertise and role:
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Researchers have developed competences in
multi-source EO data analysis with neural networks, fuzzy logic, soft
computing for: image segmentation and classification; change detection;
interferometric SAR data processing applied to subsidence and landslide
monitoring; microwave SAR data interpretation for the extraction of
bio-geophysics parameters; polarimetric calibration; radar polarimetry. They
have participated as coordinator or partner to many projects, supported by
the Italian Space Agency (ASI), ESA and European Community
(LEWIS-EVG1-CT-2001-00055, FIRESENSE. Main tasks: Role in the Project:
Coordinator. (WP 1). EO data processing for land use and change maps.
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Palma Blonda
(BIO_SOS COORDINATOR) Researcher at CNR since
1984, she is a specialist in digital image processing with soft computing
techniques applied to segmentation, classification, change detection, data
fusion. She has participated to several national and international projects
supported by ASI, ESA and she was the scientific responsible of CNR_ISSIA
activity in LEWIS-EVG1-CT-2001-00055 and FP7-FIRESENSE project starting in
December. She is member of IEEE society. Within IEEE Transc.and Geosc.
Society she was co-chair of the IEEE Data Fusion Technical Committee
(2002-2003). She is member of the ESA-EUSC image information-mining group.
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Guido Pasquariello
He has been project leader of projects
related to the classification of satellite remote sensing images,
applications of Artificial Intelligence tools and Neural Network to digital
image processing for Italian Space Agency. He participated to
LEWIS-EVG1-CT-2001-00055 project for change detection
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Benedetto Biagi
Since 1982 he is a researcher at the National
Research Council (CNR) and he works on mathematical models for hydrology and
hydraulics, on Geographic Information Systems and on the development of
applications in land modeling. He has been the scientific manager in several
projects that involved CNR and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests,
Ministero dei Lavori Pubblici and the European Economic Community.
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Francesco P. Lovergine
He originally worked in the area of
approximation methods for artificial vision and robotics. Since 1995 he
joined CNR as a researcher. He gradually moved his interests in the context
of distributed computing applied to remote sensing applications and more
recently in the context of GIS applications and methods. Since 2004 he is
the project manager of DebianGis, the main GIS oriented Linux worldwide
distribution, and cooperates with some mainstream free software GIS projects
such as GDAL/OGR and GRASS.
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 Patrizia
Maria Adamo
Maria
(Patrizia) Adamo's research activity is focused on satellite oceanography.
In particular she has been working on:
° the combined use of Synthetic Aperture Radar and VIS/NIR imagery
under sunglint condition for the oil spill detection and tracking.
Satellite instruments are well adapted to monitor, and therefore to detect
oil pollution. In particular SAR seems to be one of the most suitable
instruments to the detection of slicks, since slicks damp strongly short
waves measured by SAR and appear as dark patches on the image. However, as
SAR systems do not offer the required temporal acquisition rate of the same
area (because of its high revisiting time of about 30 days), it is desirable
to use additional satellite information gathered at higher temporal rates to
guarantee the possibility to monitoring large oil spill movement on the sea.
For this reason we are investigating about the application of VIS/NIR
imaging which have a high repetitive coverage (about two times a day). In
particular, MODIS and MERIS images acquired in sunglint conditions are able
to reveal smoothed regions such as those affected by oil pollution.
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the wind retrieval from SAR ocean
images.
Wind knowledge is essential to describe the atmospheric flow and it is very
useful for many meteorological and oceanographic applications The satellite
radars are the main sea-surface wind information source. In particular
mesoscale winds, with a typical spatial resolution of a few km, can be
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Cristina Tarantino
Received the Laurea Degree in Physics from
the University of Bari, Italy, in 1998. She has worked, as fellow in “High
Training” at the Institute for Studies on Intelligent System for Automation
(ISSIA) of the National Research Council (CNR). Since 2002 she is working as
a contract researcher at ISSIA – CNR. Her main research activity is in the
area of remote sensing image processing and pattern recognition
methodologies. In particular, her interests include neural networks and
statistical algorithms for classification purposes, both unsupervised and
supervised methodologies, with pixel-based or object-based approaches. Main
applications are in the production of land cover maps, in the change
detection, etc. In these fields, she has conducted researches within several
national and European projects.
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Giuseppe Bono
Giuseppe (Beppe) Bono is the BIO_SOS'
Administrative Account Manager.
In the 1978 he received the General Certificate of Education in Accounting.
From 1982 to 1996 he was an accountant at the veterinary’s Institute of the
Italian National Research Council (CNR). Since 1996 he is a staff member at
the IESI - CNR. His current employment scale is administrative registrar at
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 Stefano
Carito
Stefano Carito
for over 20 years has provided technical support and advice to private and
public companies. At CNR since 2010, he is a member of Project Management
Team of BIO_SOS project in charge of
technical and administrative tasks. He is responsible for providing
secretarial support, logistical support for the organization of project
meetings, production of document templates for project reports, meeting
agendas, presentations and posters; he is responsible for supporting the
document production (editing) linked to reporting activities of the project.
As a technician he was responsible for the standardization of all documents
before their submission in the EU Research Participant Portal, and he has
contributed to the image optimization and realization of the BIO_SOS'
website. As an administrative assistant he has been involved in project
reporting and archiving of supporting documentation.
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IRPI works on floods, droughts, mass
movements, soil erosion, soil science, soil degradation and desertification
with its six research centres distributed along Italy. The partecipants
represent well the specialization in soil erosion, soil science and
desertification. IRPI directed many national project, among which the
activity of a National Group for Hydrogeological Disasters which lasted for
about 20 years and supported the construction of the present Protezione
Civile (civil protection service) in Italy, of which it remained one of the
main scientific and technical support. Soil science, soil erosion,
desertification and soil plant interaction are topics which have been mainly
funded through EC funded projects and projects supported by local
administrations.
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Dino Torri
Physicist, research director, specialist in
algorithm and model development, soil erosion, hillslope and catchment
hydrology, desertification, soil-plant interactions. Researcher at CNR since
1982, he has worked as partner in several EC funded programmes such as
EUROSEM, TERON, MWISED (as coordinator) on soil erosion model development,
MEA-Scope (in a economic agrarian context), RECONDES and DESIRE (the latter
ongoing) on desertification and FIRESENSE on wildfires (just started) . He
was local scientific responsible of units working within a few national
projects. He autored more than 100 scientific papers.
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Lorenzo Borselli
Geologist, expert in soil erosion, slope
stability, flux connectivity, modelling. PhD in Soil Science (Florence
University), initially worked at the Agronomy Insitute for Overseas in
Florence then join the Florence IRPI group, With experience in Belgium,
Spain, Zimbabwe and Mexico, he cooperated to some EU projects ALPMON, MWISED,
TERON, RECONDES and is presently local responsible of the Italian
partnership in the ongoing project DESIRE.
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The activities of the Istituto di Genetica
Vegetale (IGV) in Bari, Italy, are focused on the safeguard and the
preservation of the plant genetic resources. These objectives have been
reached during the years through the activities of exploration, collection,
multiplication, characterization and documentation, studies on genetic
variation and on plant species.evolution.
Valeria Tomaselli
Graduated in Biology in 1993, obtained a PhD
in 1998 in “Environmental Science – Phytogeography of Mediterranean
territories” at the Botanic Department of the University of Catania, where
she was involved in phytogeographycal research and in assessment of
environmental quality in several sites of central-southern Italy. From 2001
she is researcher of CNR- Institute of Plant Genetics of Bari and takes part
in national and European projects dealing in the monitoring of protected
areas. She cooperated in the drawing up of landscape plans of Sicilia Region.
She is Scientific partner of the INTERREG project “Integrated software
development for monitoring and management in NATURA 2000 protected areas in
Greece and Italy – Pilot implementation in common ecosystems in Greece and
in Italy”. Coordination, University of Ioannina.
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CNR-IAC researchers have developed
competences in: numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, statistics,
inverse problems, signal and image processing, mathematical physics,
computational linear algebra, fluid mechanics, complex systems, dynamical
systems, data analysis, optimization, control theory.
 Carmela
Marangi
PhD in Physics, researcher at CNR-IAC since 2001. Research activities on
mathematical modeling, neural networks and chaotic maps, stochastic
algorithms, clustering, numerical methods for optimal control. Application
to remote sensing, and biomedical data. Reviewer for Optical Engineering,
SPIE and EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.
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Fasma Diele
Researcher at CNR-IAC since 1998. Her
research interests concern numerical methods in linear algebra and
differential equations in applied mathematics. Reviewer for SIAM Journal on
Numerical Analysis (SINUM) and Journal of Computational and Applied
Mathematics (JCAM). Reviewer for Chilean Research Fund Council (FONDECYT)
for proposals competing for funds, 2006.
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