Greater Rome Metropolitan Area
I specialise in biophysical parameter measurements from space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors, such as ALOS-PALSAR, Sentinel 1, and TerraSAR-X, with some additional expertise in optical remote sensing (mostly Sentinel-2 and Landsat sensors). I work almost entirely with open source software and programming languages, and freely available datasets for academic use. I have experience in planning and carrying out field work.
I worked on several projects at the University of Leicester related to mapping landcover and biophysical parameters from Sentinel-1 SAR. I examined the relationships between soil moisture from in situ point measurements (TDR probes) and broader measurements (COSMOS sensors), and modelled from S-1 backscatter and image pair coherence.
"Forest extent monitoring in the Congo Basin using L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)" I focused on mapping the spatial distribution of deforestation and intact topical forest from 2007-2010
This role for the ESA FireCCI project focused on mapping burned areas in the African continent from Sentinel-1 image pair coherence. I built a processing chain for generating and analysing high volume, wide area S-1 products on the University of Leicester HPC, ALICE.
Examining the use of satellite radar to measure surface movement of raised bogs in Ireland, using the technique of Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR), with data from the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) sensor onboard the European Space Agency's Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT)