SPECIAL SESSION #7
Remote sensing technologies and advanced methods for safe and security applications
ORGANIZED BY
Ferdinando Nunziata
Ferdinando Nunziata
University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy
Maurizio Migliaccio
Maurizio Migliaccio
University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy
ABSTRACT
Safety and security are among the pivotal, critical and urgent goals of political agendas, as able to threaten, when at risk, in-country stability and international relationships. Government bodies and agencies in charge of security related services like civil protection, border control, or critical infrastructures, are challenged to guarantee acceptable standards in all aspects affecting human life. The effective integration of space-based systems and terrestrial resources can provide added value and sustainable service solutions to many of these relevant issues through enhanced monitoring, surveillance, and improved coordination.
Within this context, multi-sensor satellites (including small-sats constellations) together with airborne- or drone-based remotely sensed technologies are of paramount importance to generate added-value products that can assist users and policy-makers. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop brand new techniques and processing solutions able to support the generation of added-value products in both land and maritime applications.
The aim of this session is to provide a forum, jointly sponsored by the "Geoscience and Remote Sensing South Italy" and "Oceanic Engineering Italy" Chapters, where leading scientists from academia/research centres, military and industry can exchange ideas and share solutions to face the challenges arising from remote sensing for safety and security maritime and land applications.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Ferdinando Nunziata has been Associate professor of applied electromagnetics at University di Napoli Parthenope since 2019 and he has been working on applied electromagnetics and microwave (active and passive) remote sensing since 2005. He co-authored more than 100 scientific articles on these topics. He is the chair of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing South Italy Chapter, he is IEEE Senior Member, Associate Editor of IEEE JSTARS and MDPI Remote Sensing journals, member of the Cosmo-SkyMed Mission Advisory Group, and he has been involved in the organization of thematic sessions and conferences related to microwave remote sensing.
Maurizio Migliaccio (M’91-SM’00-F’17) is Full professor of Electromagnetics at Università di Napoli Parthenope (Italy) and was Affiliated Full Professor at NOVA Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL (USA). He was member of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) scientific committee. He was member of the ASI CosmoSkyMed second generation panel. He was e-geos AdCom member. He was Italian delegate of the ESA PB-EO board. He was Member of South Africa Expert Review Panel for Space Exploration. He serves as reviewer for the UE, Italian Research Ministry (MIUR), NCST, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong Research board. He is listed in the Italian Top Scientists. He is an IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing AE, International Journal of Remote Sensing AE, and was IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering AE Special Issue on Radar for Marine and Maritime Remote Sensing, IEEE JSTARS AE of the Special Issue on CosmoSKyMed, Member of the Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics Editorial board. His main current scientific interests cover SAR sea oil slick and man-made target monitoring, remote sensing for marine and coastal applications, remote sensing for agriculture monitoring, polarimetry, inverse problems for resolution enhancement, reverberating chambers. He published about 180 peer-reviewed journal papers on applied electromagnetics.
