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theory, and natural media remote sensing using multibaseline polarimetric SAR interferometry data, with applications to classification, electromagnetic scattering modeling
and physical parameter retrieval, time-frequency analysis,
and 3D reconstruction of environments using tomography.
He is a Member of the IEEE.
Yue Huang (yue.huang@univrennes1.fr) received her
M.Sc. degree in electronics, electrical engineering, and automation and systems from the University Paul Sabatier,
Toulouse, France, in 2007 and her Ph.D. degree in signal
processing and telecommunications from the University of
Rennes 1, France, in 2011. She is currently with at the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes.
From 2011 to 2015, she was a senior scientist at Intermap
Technologies Corp., Calgary, Canada. She has been involved in many R&D projects of synthetic-aperture radar
(SAR) imaging and its applications. Her research interests
include polarimetric SAR interferometry techniques, SAR
interferometry and differential interferometry, physical parameter retrieval, 3D environment reconstruction,
target detection, SAR signal processing, SAR tomography, multivariate spectral estimation methods, and blind
source separation.
Mauro Mariotti d'Alessandro (mauro.mariotti@polimi
.it) received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees in
telecommunications engineering from the Politecnico di
Milano, Italy, in 2005, 2009, and 2014, respectively. From
2014 to 2016, he was part of the research team of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. Since 2016, he has
been a research assistant with the Department of Electronics, Informatics, and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di
Milano. He is currently working on the development of
algorithms for the European Space Agency BIOMASS system. His research interests include synthetic-aperture radar
tomography, polarimetry, and calibration of airborne and
spaceborne data. He is a Member of the IEEE.
Vito Pascazio (vito.pascazio@uniparthenope.it) graduated summa cum laude in electronic engineering from the
Università di Bari, Italy, in 1986. In 1990, he received his
Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer science from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy. Currently, he
is a full professor at the Università di Napoli Parthenope,
Italy. His research interests include remote sensing, image
processing, and linear and nonlinear estimation, with particular emphasis in image computing and processing and
reconstruction of microwave and radar images. He has
published more than 180 technical papers. In 1990, he was
awarded the Philip Morris Prize for Scientific and Technological Research. In 2015, he was a general cochair of the
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium conference. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Gilda Schirinzi (gilda.schirinzi@uniparthenope.it)
graduated cum laude in electronic engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. Since 2008, she has been at
the University of Naples "Parthenope," Italy. From 1985
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to 1986, she was at the European Space Agency, European
Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, The
Netherlands. In 1988, she joined the Istituto di Ricerca per
l'Elettromagnetismo e i Componenti Elettronici, Naples. In
1998, she joined the University of Cassino as an associate
professor of telecommunications, and in 2005 she became
a full professor. Her main scientific interests are in the field
of signal processing for remote sensing applications, with
particular reference to synthetic aperture radar interferometry and tomography. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Stefano Tebaldini (stefano.tebaldini@polimi.it) received
his M.S. degree in telecommunication engineering and his
Ph.D. degree from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2005
and 2009, respectively. Since 2005, he has been with the Digital Signal Processing Research Group, Politecnico di Milano,
where he is currently an associate professor. He has been a
key scientist in several studies with the European Space
Agency (ESA), concerning the tomographic phase of the
BIOMASS mission. He was a member of the SAOCOM-CS
Expert Group, ESA. He is one of the inventors of a new technology patented by T.R.E. for the exploitation of multiple
interferograms in the presence of distributed scattering. He
teaches courses on signal theory and remote sensing at the
Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include Earth
observation with synthetic aperture radar and radar design
and processing. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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