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1 Sotto l Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica Italiana Geoscience and Remote Sensing South Italy Chapter 2012 IEEE GOLD Remote Sensing Conference 4, 5 june 2012 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Roma), Italy 1

2 Aula Marconi ADVANCE PROGRAMME 8:30-9:30 Registration June 4, :30-11:45 Opening ceremony Luigi Nicolais, CNR President Enrico Saggese, ASI President Gianni Vernazza, CNIT President Paolo Lampariello, SiEM President Maurizio Migliaccio, IEEE GRS South Italy Chapter Chairman At the end of the opening ceremony the 2011 best Italian remote sensing thesis prizes will be awarded. 11:45-13:00 Oral presentations Session 1: Sea Chairmen: Roberto Sabia, ESA & Luca Pulvirenti, Università di Roma Sapienza 1 11:45-12:00 Coastline extraction from SAR images using a pulse coupled neural network technique, Daniele Latini, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy. 2 12:00-12:15 Identification of oil slicks in SAR images via multifractal technique, Roberto Coscione, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. 3 12:15-12:30 Wind Speed Retrieval by means of X- band COSMO- SkyMed SAR data, Antonio Montuori, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy. 2

3 4 12:30-12:45 Analysis of Cosmo- Skymed SAR wind forcing capabilities for coastal circulation modeling, Paola de Ruggiero, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy. 13:00-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-17:00 Oral presentations Session 2: Sea and Ice Chairmen: Tobias Otto, TU Delft & Antonio Iodice, Università di Napoli Federico II 5 12:45-13:00 First analysis on snow cover change using polarimetric TerraSAR- x data, Iole Pisciottano, Fraunhofer FHR, Germany. 6 14:30-14:45 Red algae bloom detection in Occhito lake combining MERIS and MODIS data, Raffaella Matarrese, CNR- IRSA, Italy. 7 14:45-15:00 Estimation of sea- ice thickness in Ross and Weddell Seas from SSM/I brightness temperatures, G. Aulicino, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy. 8 15:00-15:15 Geophysical Effects at Increasing Latitudes in the SMOS L3 Salinity Products, Alejandro Cristo, University of Extremadura, Spain. 9 15:15-15:30 Integrated oil spill impact assessment in Lithuanian coastal areas, SE Baltic Sea, Daniel Depellegrin, Klaipeda University, Lithuania. Session 3: Processing & Sensors 1 Chairmen: Carlos Lopez- Martinez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya & Maurizio Sarti, CNR- IBAF 10 15:30-15:45 Analysis of invariances in SAR polarimetry, Simon Zwieback, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. 3

4 11 15:45-16:00 Exploitation of the Cosmo- Skymed SAR system for GMTI applications, Lorenzo Buratta, Università di Roma Sapienza, Italy :00-16:15 Staggered- SAR: a new concept for high- resolution wide- swath imaging, Michelangelo Villano, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany. Session 4: Processing & Sensors 2 Chairmen: Pietro Guccione, Politecnico di Bari & Fabio Del Frate, Università di Roma Tor Vergata 13 16:15-16:30 Spatial scale class- object selection trough a hierarchical segmentation by a per pixel classification, Alessandro Chiancone, Alma Mater Università di Bologna, Italy :30-16:45 Change detection from very high- resolution multisensor remote- sensing images by a markovian approach, Luca Cianci, Università di Genova, Italy :45-17:00 Space adaptive quantization for SAR data compression, Luigi Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy. 17:00-17:30 Coffee break Aula Arangio Ruiz 17:00-18:30 Interactive session Chairmen: Giampaolo Ferraioli, Università di Napoli Parthenope & Joao Catalao, Universidade de Lisboa Aula Arangio Ruiz 16 Adaptation of the Diffused Matrix Format (DMF) for remote sensing image processing, Alejandro Cristo, Escuela Politécnica de la University of Extremadura, Spain. 4

5 17 Sequential edge linking for SAR images: a novel algorithm to draw edges automatically, Luca Fabbrini, Università di Firenze, Italy. 18 A polarimetric two- scale model for the retrieval of the soil moisture content via dual pol SAR data, Antonio Natale, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. 19 Fast urban seismic damage detection with SAR amplitude images, Peter T.B. Brett, University of Surrey, UK. 20 TerraSAR- X Dual- Polarization Data for Snow Properties Retrieval, Annalisa Della Corte, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. 21 Interferometric DEM generation from Cosmo- Skymed data: potentials and challenges, Davide Oscar Nitti, GAP, Bari, Italy. 22 Advances in automatic inversion of seismic source parameters from InSAR data, Matteo Picchiani, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy. 23 GNSS reflectometry for ocean surface observation and wind speed estimation, Domenico Schiavulli, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy. 24 Radar localization of small scatterers by multifrequency MUSIC, Angela Dell Aversano, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy. 25 Improving geometric resolution of NDVI results with panchromatic and multispectral data fusion, Francesca Guastaferro, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy. 26 Adaptation of Landsat ETM+ images to cartographic representation of mercator, Angela Errico, Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy. 27 Estimation of solar radiation in the alpine region: satellite data and ground instruments for evaluating the effect of topography, the atmosphere and clouds, Mariapina Castelli, EURAC, Bolzano, Italy. 28 Polarimetric SAR perturbation analysis for maritime applications, Manuele Pichierri, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 5

6 June 5, 2012 Aula Marconi 9:30-13:00 Oral presentations Session 5: New sensors and data fusion Chairmen: Frank Marzano, Università di Roma Sapienza & Cosimo Stallo, Università di Roma Tor Vergata 29 9:30-9:45 Sentinel- 2 radiometric uncertainty tool (S2- RUT): uncertainty analysis and implementation, Javier Gorroño, ESA. 30 9:45-10:00 A comparison of two innovative techniques to enhance the spatial resolution of radiometer data, Flavia Lenti, Università dell Insubria, Italy :00-10:15 PLATON: satellite remote sensing, navigation and telecommunication by using millimetre waves, M. Lucente, ARES Consortium, Italy :15-10:30 Spaceborne microwave interferometric radiometers for lunar sub- surface remote sensing: inverse problems, electromagnetic diagnostics and numerical simulations, Sara Pompili, Thales Alenia Space, Rome, Italy. Session 6: Land and Vegetation Chairmen: Salvatore Stramondo, INGV & Giovanni Nico, CNR- IAC 33 10:30-10:45 A comparison of polarimetric decomposition techniques for soil moisture estimation, Lucio Mascolo, Università di Cagliari, Italy :45-11:00 Crop volume characterization using dual polarimetric SAR in X- band, Gianpaolo Massaroli, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy :00-11:15 A new approach for slope instability characterization: spatio- temporal analysis of SAR based time series applied to the Corvara in Badia landslide test- case (Dolomites, Italy), Marco Mulas - Università degli Studi di Bari e Politecnico di Bari, Italy :15-11:30 Validation of pol- InSAR derived forest height by means of lidar data, Giuseppe Parrella, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Italy. 6

7 Session 7: Land, vegetation and volcanic applications Chairmen: Marcello Petitta, EURAC & Lorenzo Bigagli, CNR- IMAA 37 11:30-11:45 Spatio- temporal modeling of vegetation dynamic in abandoned agricultural land of the northern apennine, F. Filipponi, Università di Pavia, Italy :45-12:00 A Seviri- based methodology for volume estimation during paroxysmal events at etna volcano, Gaetana Ganci, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Catania, Italy :00-12:15 Flooding Level Estimation in Urban Areas with SAR Images, Pasquale Iervolino, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. Session 8: Radar - Chairmen: Emanuele Santi CNR- IFAC & Gianfranco Fornaro, CNR- IREA 40 12:15-12:30 2d- MIMO distributed ISAR imaging of rotating targets with improved range and cross- range resolution, Fabrizio Santi, Università di Roma Sapienza, Italy 41 12:30-12:45 Receiver architectures for fm- based passive bistatic radar, Antonio Macera, Università di Roma Sapienza, Italy :45-13:00 Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar of aerial targets based on dvb- t passive radar, D. Olivadese, Università di Pisa, Italy. 13:00-14:30 Lunch break 7

8 14:30-16:30 Remote Sensing round table Wolfgang Keydel, DLR Yves Louis Desnos, ESA Mario Cosmo, ASI Pietro Finocchio, AFCEA Attilio Gambardella, European Research Council Executive Agency Ferdinando Nunziata, IEEE GRS GOLD Delegate Maurizio Migliaccio, IEEE GRS South Italy Chapter Chairman 16:30-18:00 Oral presentations Session 9: SAR and INSAR Processing Chairmen: Debora Pastina, Università di Roma Sapienza & Fabio Bovenga, CNR- ISSIA 43 16:30-16:45 Inverse and direct Synthetic Aperture Radar data processing, Carlo Noviello, IREA- CNR, Napoli, Italy :45-17:00 Phase calibration of multibaseline SAR data stacks: a minimum entropy approach, Vittorio Bianco, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy 45 17:00-17:15 Persistent point scatterers in multibaseline SAR interferometry, Mariantonietta Zonno, Politecnico di Bari, Italy :15-17:30 Multi- chromatic analysis of a single SAR image for absolute ranging, L. Gallitelli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy :30-17:45 Analysis of rainfall and flood signatures on x- band synthetic aperture radar observations, S. Mori, Università di Roma Sapienza, Italy. 8

9 Under the Patronage Italian Republic President ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana DLR - Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche IEEE GRS Society IEEE GOLD GRSS IEEE Italy GOLD Affinity Group IEEE GRS South Italy Chapter IEEE GRS Central Italy Chapter CNIT - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni AFCEA Roma Chapter SIEM Società Italiana di Elettromagnetismo Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope 9

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