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Francesco Soldovieri Appointed Associate Editor of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
Francesco Soldovieri, Director of the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IREA), has been appointed Associate Editor of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (IEEE-GRSM), one of the most prestigious international scientific journals in the field of remote sensing. He is currently the only representative from an Italian institution to hold this position. The journal, published by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, ranks first in the Remote Sensing category…

Written on Monday, 14 July 2025 21:18 Read 8 times
Visit to CNR-IREA by the United Nations Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Dr. Kamal Kishore, visited CNR-IREA on January 22, accompanied by Eng. Luca Rossi from UNDRR and Dr. Chiara Cardaci representing the Civil Protection Department (DPC). The purpose of the visit was to show the contribution that CNR-IREA, as a Competence Center supporting the DPC, provides to the National Civil Protection Service in the fields of seismic and volcanic monitoring. This contribution relies on satellite radar interferometry techniques,…

Written on Monday, 27 January 2025 15:30 Read 4298 times
Francesco Soldovieri elected Fellow of the IEEE
Francesco Soldovieri, Director of the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the National Research Council of Italy, has been elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for "his contributions to the theoretical analysis of inverse problems, to microwave tomography and their applications". IEEE is an American professional association representing electrical and electronics engineers and other related professionals. Founded in 1963, the IEEE is headquartered in New York (USA) and its primary purpose is…

Written on Monday, 13 January 2025 16:25 Read 3884 times
Christiaan Huygens Medal 2025 to Francesco Soldovieri
Francesco Soldovieri, Director of the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the National Research Council of Italy, has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal, one of the awards that the European Geosciences Union (EGU) recognises each year to eminent scientists for their outstanding research contribution to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. In particular, the Christiaan Huygens Medal has been established to honour scientists who have achieved exceptional international standing in Geosciences Instrumentation…

Written on Monday, 02 December 2024 17:55 Read 4074 times
"Best Paper Presented by a Young Researcher" award to Weili Tang
As part of the IEEE International Workshop on Technologies for Defense and Security (TechDefense 2024), held in Naples from November 11 to 13, 2024, Weili Tang, a PhD student at the University of Naples “Parthenope” with a scholarship funded by IREA, received the second place award in the "Best Paper Presented by a Young Researcher" category. The award recognizes the best paper written/co-written and presented by a researcher under the age of 35. The papers were evaluated based on technical…

Written on Tuesday, 26 November 2024 14:04 Read 4232 times
Remote sensing and plant diversity: a webinar of the TERRAQUA-RS project
On Thursday 12 December, as part of the activities of TERRAQUA-RS, a bilateral project coordinated by IREA-CNR within the framework of the agreement on scientific cooperation between CNR and MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology, China), Prof. Yuan ZENG and Dr. Zhaoju ZHENG from the Ecosystem Remote Sensing Lab of the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIR-CAS) will hold a webinar on the potential and applications of remote sensing for characterising plant diversity. Through the collection and…

Written on Monday, 18 November 2024 14:40 Read 4422 times