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Thursday, 15 December 2016 13:58
EDI Metadata Editor: a software for the management of spatial data
The National Directory of Territorial Data has reported EDI software as a new tool for all Public Administrations committed to enhancing their territorial data heritage. EDI, developed by IREA-CNR under the RITMARE project, responds in particular to the challenges of quality and coherence of geographic information by giving a variety…
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Wednesday, 14 December 2016 11:56
Gianfranco Fornaro elevated to IEEE Fellow
Gianfranco Fornaro, Senior Researcher at IREA, has been elevated to Fellow by IEEE for his for contributions to SAR processing in differential interferometry and tomography. The Fellow grade will be effective by 1 January 2017. IEEE, “the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers”, is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated…
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Monday, 21 November 2016 11:55
A European Geosciences Union Medal to Riccardo Lanari
Riccardo Lanari, director of IREA, has been announced as the recipient of the 2017 Christiaan Huygens Medal, one of the prizes that the European Geosciences Union (EGU) awards each year to eminent scientists for their outstanding research contribution to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. In particular, the Christiaan Huygens…
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Wednesday, 02 November 2016 14:40
New results on the 30 October 2016 earthquake retrieved from the Sentinel-1 satellite radar data
The study of ground deformation and seismic sources, now focused on the 30 October 2016 earthquake, is enriched with new important results obtained from the processing of radar images collected from the Sentinel-1 constellation along ascending and descending orbits Thanks to the new radar images, acquired on 1 November 2016 from…
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Saturday, 29 October 2016 15:40
The earthquake of October 26 from satellite acquisitions
The study of The Earth's deformations and seismic sources continues, focusing on the events of October 26. This activity is coordinated by the Department of Civil Protection (DPC) and is carried out by a team of researchers from the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the National Research…
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Tuesday, 30 August 2016 17:45
New results on the Amatrice earthquake of August 24, 2016, obtained from Sentinel-1 and COSMO-SKyMed satellites radars
The study of the ground deformations and seismic sources related to the events of 24 August 2016 is going on. Thie activity is coordinated by the Department of Civil Protection (DPC) and is carried out by a team of researchers from the National Research Council (Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the…
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Friday, 26 August 2016 15:17
Satellite sensing helps to identify the faults of the Amatrice earthquake of 24/08/2016
By exploiting the data of the Japanese satellite ALOS 2, obtained through scientific projects, a team of CNR and INGV researchers (coordinated by Riccardo Lanari, director of CNR-IREA, and by Stefano Salvi, technologist manager of INGV), measured with high precision the permanent ground displacements occurred during the earthquake, using the…
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Thursday, 07 April 2016 12:03
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2016 in Napoli
Naples is again among the 158 cities of the world in which the fifth International Space Apps Challenge, the big event sponsored by NASA, which will take place on April 23 and 24 at the Faculty of Engineering in Via Nuova Agnano 11. Thanks to the organization supported by IREA, Department…
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Tuesday, 01 March 2016 14:47
In the archaeological site of Pompeii the school "Geophysics and Remote Sensing for Archaeology"
In the fascinating setting of Pompeii archaeological area, the school "Geophysics and Remote Sensing for Archaeology" will be held from 9 to 13 May 2016. The course is organised by two Institutes of the National Research Council of Italy, i.e. CNR-IBAM and CNR-IREA, and Soprintendenza Speciale Beni Archeologici Pompei, Ercolano…
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Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:19
Continental scale mapping capabilities of Sentinel-1 sensor: the 12-days InSAR coherence over Europe
Sentinel-1 is the first satellite of the Copernicus program and is equipped with a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensor that is able to provide day-night acquisitions nearly over the whole World. The Sentinel-1 operational mode on land is the so-called Interferometric Wide Swath (IWS), which guarantees the Earth’s global coverage…
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