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…

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…

On Tuesday 16 April, as part of the EGU General Assembly 2024, an Honor Session will be held in memory of our colleague Mariarosaria Manzo, who passed away prematurely in 2022. The proposed session is inspired by the themes that have characterized the 20-year research activity of Mariarosaria Manzo, which mainly focused on the exploitation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for the Earth surface deformation retrieval and investigation through the application of the original Differential SAR Interferometry (DInSAR) technique…