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URSI - Union Radio Scientifique Internationale

Radio-science includes the knowledge and study of all aspects of electromagnetic fields and waves. URSI, a non-governmental, non-profit organization under the aegis of the International Science Council (ISC), is responsible for the promotion and coordination of international studies, research, applications, scientific exchange, and communication in the numerous fields of radio-science.

URSI was officially established in 1919, during the Constitutive Assembly of the International Council of Research (now ISC) held in Bruxelles. Three years later, in 1922, during the first URSI General Assembly held again in Brussels, the Italian membership was ratified under the representative role of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), a young National Research Council still under organization (officially established on Nov. 18th, 1923). For the development of radio science and relationships with URSI, the first CNR president Vito Volterra appointed an ad-hoc committee of experts, composed of university professors and researchers employed in military and civil institutions. Initially called Comitato per gli Studi di Radiotecnica under the prestigious chairmanship of Guglielmo Marconi, eventually known as Comitato di Studio per la Partecipazione del CNR all’URSI, this group of experts continued to be important over the years. URSI has greatly contributed to the promotion of the International Geophysics Year and, since 1954, a General Assembly is regularly held every three years.

The Organization goals include:

  • encourage and promote international activity in radio-science, in its various applications for the benefit of human kind;
  • encourage the adoption of common methods of measurement, comparability and standardization of the measuring instruments used in scientific work;
  • stimulate and coordinate studies on the scientific aspects of telecommunications using electromagnetic waves, guided and unguided; the generating, emission, radiation, propagation, reception, detection of fields and waves and processing the signals contained in them.
  • illustrate radio-science to the general public;
  • represent radio-science in private and public organizations.

The various branches of radio-science are analyzed by many Study Boards:

  • Committee A: Electromagnetic Metrology
  • Committee B: Fields and waves
  • Committee C: Radio-communication Systems and Signal Processing
  • Committee D: Electronics and Photonics
  • Committee E: Electromagnetic Environment and Interference
  • Committee F: Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing
  • Committee G: Ionospheric Radio and Propagation
  • Committee H: Waves in Plasmas
  • Committee J: Radio Astronomy
  • Committee K: Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine

For further information on URSI activity in Italy, see the following web site: http://www.ursi.org/mcsites/italy/index.html

Info

Secretariat
c/o Ghent University (INTEC) Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 - B-900 Ghent - Belgium
Web site: http://www.ursi.org/

Delegate

prof. CARLO CAROBBI

Università degli Studi di Firenze
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Via S. Marta, 3 - 50139 Firenze
Phone number: +39 055 2758501
Email: carlo.carobbi@unifi.it

Substitute delegate

dott. MARIO IODICE

CNR
Istituto di Scienze Applicate e Sistemi Intelligenti "Eduardo Caianiello"
Via Pietro Castellino 111 - 80131 Napoli
Phone number: 081 6132 372
Email: Mario.iodice@isasi.cnr.it

Reports URSI

Commission CNR-URSI: documents

Last update: 20/04/2024