Stefano Salvi is Technological Director at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – INGV, Rome. In 1991 he founded, and directed for several years, the INGV Remote Sensing Laboratory to apply airborne and spaceborne imagery in a variety of Earth Science applications. He is expert in the application of optical and radar remote sensing to different Solid Earth fields, with the main focus on ground motion mapping and analysis for tectonic and anthropogenic crustal deformation. He has been providing scientific support to the Italian Government (Civil Protection Department), for situational awareness and emergency management. He is chairing the Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratory Open Science initiative, established under the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). He is a member of the Working Group on Disasters of the Committee for Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), and is co-Lead of the CEOS Seismic Demonstrator. He coordinates the Italian Joint Research Unit supporting the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) Research Infrastructure.
Christian Bignami received the Ph.D. degree in Electromagnetism, in 2008 from Sapienza University of Rome, and the M.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome, June 2002. Since 2007 he has been a researcher of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, and was responsible for the Remote Sensing Unit for several years. His main research activities concern SAR and Optical satellite data processing and analysis for surface deformation, change detection, and their integration with ground data. He is involved as WP and Task leader in several National and International research projects based on EO data exploitation for application monitoring.
Cristiano Tolomei, since 2000 has been a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia in Rome, as a member of the Remote Sensing Laboratory. His research interests mainly concern on the production of ground deformation maps retrieved by SAR interferometry, both classical and multi-temporal techniques. Such methods are applied for monitoring service purposes and as input for the modeling of the investigated phenomena, hazard assessment, and risk mitigation (i.e., causative faults, magma intrusion, hydrothermal sources, subsidence phenomena, landslides, etc.).
He has been involved in numerous national and international projects aiming on volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, subsidence, and risk mitigation. He was a scientific coordinator and trainer of young researchers and master’s degrees.
Lisa Beccaro is a research fellow at the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) based in Rome, with more than five years of experience in the field of Earth Observation. She graduated in 2018 at the University of Padua with a master’s thesis performed at the Swiss company sarmap and a post-graduate internship at the Eurac Research center in Bozen. She specializes in processing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data through advanced interferometric techniques and interpreting the results using external sources, such as geodetic, meteorological and geological data. As part of the WorldPeatland project, she is specifically involved in the processing of SAR satellite data by exploiting the latest algorithms developed in the field of multitemporal interferometry to obtain ground deformation maps and displacement time series useful for interpreting the dynamics of the studied environments.
Through the ESA-funded WorldPeatland project, it was possible to assess the applicability of Multi-Temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (MT-InSAR) methods for the study of peatlands located in boreal and temperate climate zones, as well as tropical ones.
Connecting with ongoing peatland projects and collaborating on the creation of databases is crucial for the WorldPeatland team to train and validate Earth Observation tools developed within the consortium.
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