Luca Martino

SENTINEL-1 Mission Management Engineer

Rome, Latium, Italy

About

Experience

  • Serco Space Services - Europe Careers (Hybrid)
    • Service and People Manager for Copernicus Data Quality and Contributing Missions Activity Service
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    • Department Manager for Engineering & Management Support Services (EMSS) contract
      Sep 2023 - May 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    • Technical Manager for CLEAR UP Research Project - PRISMA SCIENZA
      Sep 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Being responsible of four Work Packages related to the processing and analysis of Sen2like harmonized time-series from PRISMA, SENTINEL-2 and LANDSAT-8 satellites, for the study of the phenology of vegetation surrounding landfill sites. Supervising and coordinating the set-up of a dedicated cloud platform to ingest Analysis Ready data (ARD) data and related algorithms to allow data access and customizable solutions for diverse requirements and levels of expertise.

  • European Space Agency - ESA (17 yrs 3 mos)
    • Emergency On-Call Officer (ECO) for the International Charter of Space and Major Disasters
      Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

      Analyzing the request and the scope of the disaster then preparing an archive and acquisition plan using available satellite resources, planning out what would be the best satellites to use over the impacted area. This plan is submitted to the relevant space agencies, which task their satellites accordingly if it is possible to meet the request. Filling out the dossier document which describes the disaster and what has been carried out for the activation.

    • SENTINEL-1 Mission Management Engineer
      Sep 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

      Technical assistance to Sentinel-1 A/B mission management: - handling of observation scenario and of inputs for long-term-plan; - creating and maintaining mission requirements dataBASE; - direct interface with Copernicus users (EMSA & SAR SEA ICE etc ) - Collection of requirements, feasibility study and simulation; - CP outreach assistance; - ground stations visibility analysis;

    • Copernicus Services Account Manager - DWH phase 2
      Apr 2015 - Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' | ODO at Serco - a world of experience
    Oct 2015 - Oct 2023 · 8 yrs 1 mo

    Available 24h/day, 7 days/week. Following activation of the charter of 'Space and Major Disasters', from disaster management authorities, from countries of Charter member agencies: - Receiving calls requesting space data images and information. - Identifying the caller as being an AU (Authorized User). - Obtaining and confirming with the AU the information required (approximate geographical location and surface extent of the disaster). - Transmitting the information to the ECO (Emergency On-Call Officer). - Contacting the ECO within an hour.

  • Earth Observation/ GIS systems development at e-geos
    2008 - 2009 · 1 yr

  • friends at Solving Team
    2008 - 2009 · 1 yr