Fabio Michele Rana

Fabio Michele Rana received a degree in Electronic Engineering (field: Telecommunications) at the Polytechnic of Bari on March 2006 with a dissertation on "SAR Geocoding". He obtained the master degree "Technologies in Spaceborne Remote Sensing" at the Department of Physics of the University of Bari on June 2008 working on the applications of multi-temporal SAR Interferometry for slope and building instability monitoring. He received his doctorate in Electrical And Information Engineering at Polytechnic of Bari on April 2016 with a thesis titled "Exploitation of Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Data for Geophysical Parameters Retrieval over Land and Ocean". From July 2008 until September 2010, he worked as a contract Researcher at the Polytechnic and the University of Bari and for the academical spin-off GAP (Geophysical Applications Processing) S.r.l. focusing on advanced processing techniques for SAR Forward and Inverse Geocoding as well as for radarcoded ellipsoidal/topographic Phase Fields and DTM simulation. Since October 2010, he has been with the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), first at the Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation (ISSIA) and then the Institute of Atmospheric pollution (IIA), both in Bari.

Main research interests are:

1. the retrieval of high-resolution sea surface wind fields by using both C- and X-band SAR data.
2. the development and the applications of multi-temporal (PS-InSAR) and multi-chromatic (MCA) SAR Interferometry techniques for ground displacement/elevation retrieval.

Research and Development in the fields of Remote Sensing and Earth Observation

Sea surface wind retrieval in coastal areas by means of Sentinel-1 and numerical weather prediction model data

LG-MOD MULTI-SCALE APPROACH FOR SAR SEA SURFACE WIND DIRECTIONS RETRIEVAL

EO Biophysical Parameters, Land Use and Habitats Extraction Modules

LG-mod: A modified local gradient (LG) method to retrieve SAR sea surface wind directions in marine coastal areas

Assessing the Bayesian inversion technique of C-band SAR data for the retrieval of wind fields in marine coastal areas

Multi-Chromatic Analysis of SAR Images for Coherent Target Detection

Multichromatic Analysis of Satellite Wideband SAR Data

A simplified Local Gradient method for the retrieval of SAR-derived sea surface wind directions

Quantitative analysis of Bora events in the Adriatic Sea by means of SAR-based techniques and the ETA model

Frequency coherent vs. temporally coherent targets

Multi-chromatic analysis of SAR images for target analysis

Combined observations of a Bora event in the Adriatic Sea by means of ETA model and SAR data

Multi-chromatic analysis of high resolution X-band SAR data

INTERFEROMETRIC MULTI-CHROMATIC ANALYSIS OF COSMO-SKYMED DATA FOR HEIGHT RETRIEVAL

On the use of SAR interferometry to aid navigation of UAV

Interpreting very slow surface movements on slopes detected by PS interferometry and GPS monitoring: case study from the Southern Apennines, Italy

Attività di elaborazione di dati EO SAR su aree in frana nell’ambito del progetto ASI MORFEO

Analisi del sisma del 6 Aprile 2009 in Abruzzo con tecniche di Interferometria SAR differenziale

On the use of C- and X- band SAR data for studying the ground deformations induced by April 6th earthquake in Abruzzo

C- and X-band multi-pass InSAR analysis over Alpine areas (ITALY)

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF STRIPMAP AND SPOTLIGHT SAR INTERFEROMETRY WITH COSMO-SKYMED CONSTELLATION