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Monday, 18 January 2021 19:00
Earthquake in Croatia: the ground deformation measured from space
The strong earthquake occurred on 29 December 2020 in Croatia caused ground deformations of about 40 centimeters. This is what emerged from the study of a team of researchers from the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the National Research Council by using data acquired from the European Sentinel-1…
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Monday, 21 December 2020 10:51
A CNR-IREA study highlights the absence of pre-collapse deformation phenomena of the Morandi bridge in Genoa in satellite radar observations
A recent analysis relating to the Morandi bridge shows the absence of deformations, before its collapse, in the results obtained from the satellite radar data of the Italian COSMO-SkyMed constellation. This evidence has been shown by a study conducted by a team of researchers from the CNR Institute for Electromagnetic…
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Saturday, 12 December 2020 06:36
IREA in the UN-GGIM Academic Network
Maria Brovelli, Full Professor of Politecnico di Milano and Associate Member of IREA, has been elected Chair of the UN-GGIM Academic Network, an outstanding expert panel of United Nations focusing on topics and challenges of geospatial information (GI). UN-GGIM (the Bureau of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management) addresses global…
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Thursday, 01 October 2020 16:17
Riccardo Lanari received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
On Monday, 28 September, Riccardo Lanari - acting director of the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) of the Italian National Research Council - received the IEEE GRSS Fawwaz Ulaby Distinguished Achievement Award 2020. The prestigious prize is conferred annually to recognize the individual who has made significant…
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Thursday, 10 September 2020 20:47
The software package "prismaread" was released
prismaread is an open source software package developed in "R" language by the Institute for Remote Sensing of Environment (IREA) of the National Research Council of Italy with the aim of facilitating access to the data acquired by the innovative PRISMA hyperspectral sensor, recently launched by the Italian Space Agency (ASI).…
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Friday, 31 July 2020 08:29
Copernicus user stories by IREA in the NEREUS search engine
Under ESA flagship, the Project Copernicus4Regions has collected 99 user stories, titled “Ever Growing Use of Copernicus across Europe’s Regions”. They describe from a user perspective how regional public administrations in Europe have used data and information from the Copernicus Programme to face their challenges, and show benefits to citizens’ lives.…
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Thursday, 09 April 2020 08:20
Processing Sentinel-2 data in R using sen2r: the paper published by "Computers & Geosciences"
sen2r is an R package developed by the Institute of Remote Sensing of Environment (IREA) of the Italian National Research Council, with the aim to simplify and speed up several steps commonly needed to process Sentinel-2 data. Recently, an important recognition to the worth and usefulness of this tool came…
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Wednesday, 04 March 2020 18:49
IREA continues to invest in Big Earth Observation Data processing services
Following a public Invitation to Tender open to all DIAS (Data and Information Access Services) platforms, CNR-IREA has signed a new one-year contract with ONDA, one of the DIAS providers, for the provision of Cloud Computing resources in support of a very large surface deformation analysis over Europe carried out…
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Friday, 28 February 2020 18:07
9th International Workshop THz-Bio 2020
From April 30 to May 3, 2020, at the “Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture” in Erice (Sicily), the 9th International THz-Bio Workshop will take place, in the framework of the activities of the International School of Bioelectromagnetis. Directors of the School are Prof. Ferdinando Bersani, University of…
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Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:38
Special Issue "Advanced Electromagnetic Biosensors for Medical, Environmental and Industrial Applications"
Olga Zeni e Stefania Romeo, researchers at IREA-CNR, announce the call of the Special Issue "Advanced Electromagnetic Biosensors for Medical, Environmental and Industrial Applications" of Sensors journal. The interest in and potential of electromagnetic technologies for sensing purposes in medical, environmental, and industrial contexts has been increasing exponentially. The benefits of electromagnetic biosensors include minimally invasive,…
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