The participation of
Partner 15 has been terminated as per Amendment n. 1, taking effect on
15 September 2011.
Baraldi Consultancy in Remote
Sensing of Andrea Baraldi (BACRES) is a one-man company founded by Eng.
Andrea Baraldi in 2009 and located in Bologna, Italy.
Staff involved
Andrea Baraldi
Andrea Baraldi received his Laurea (M.S.)
degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy,
in 1989; an M.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Padova,
Italy, and Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1994; a
post-doctoral fellowship in Artificial Intelligence at the International
Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, in 1999. The research activity
of Eng. Baraldi is mainly focused on the development of operational
automatic spaceborne image understanding systems. These comprise an
operational automatic multi-sensor multi-resolution pixel-specific
spectral rule-based decision-tree preliminary classification first stage
in series with a battery of second-stage context-sensitive application-
and sensor-specific stratified feature extractors and one-class
classification modules. Wherever possible these computer vision systems
search for biological plausibility as a value added.
An operational automatic spaceborne
image understanding system works as one processing block of a spaceborne
information processing feedback system. Such a feedback system provides
a feedback link to first-stage automatic remote sensing image
enhancement modules, such as automatic image topographic correction,
automatic panchromatic sharpening of multi-spectral imagery, automatic
image mosaic enhancement, etc. It also includes landscape fragmentation/connectivity
analysis tools to be employed as input by ecosystem and land use
modeling systems. Additional research interests of Eng. Baraldi deal
with machine learning, with special emphasis on self-organizing
topology-preserving inductive-learning distributed systems capable of
modeling non-stationary random processes.
Eng. Baraldi held research fellowships
at the Italian national Research Council (1989, 1994-1996, 2003-2004),
European Space Agency (1991-1993), International Computer Science
Institute, Berkeley, CA (1997-1999), Institute for Environment and
Sustainability of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (EC-JRC)
(2000-2002, 2005-2009). In 2009 he founded Baraldi Consultancy in Remote
Sensing. Since Sept. 2010 he has joined the Department of Geography of
the University of Maryland as Research Associate Professor. Eng. Baraldi
served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
from 2001 to 2006.
GO TO
WP1 Project Management
WP2 User
Requirements
Completion
WP3 EODHaM
System
and service
WP4 On-site
data collection
WP5 EO data
processing
modules implementation
WP6 EODHaM
modelling
modules development
WP7 EODHaM
test on different
sampling sites and validation
