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exploitation in response to societal challenges but also
"gold room" for the development of research new ideas in
data processing.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors wish to thank the Italian Space Agency for
the provision of the COSMO-SkyMed data used in this
article under specific license-to-use programs. The results presented in this article were achieved within an
agreement between the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno, Italy, and the National
Research Council (CNR)-Research Institute for GeoHydrological Protection (Section of Cosenza), "Attività
di ricerca mirate ad approfondire le conoscenze sulla
tipizzazione di movimenti franosi a cinematica lenta
e sulla vulnerabilità di strutture e infrastrutture che
con essi interagiscono anche mediante l'impiego di tecniche innovative di monitoraggio satellitare e da terra,"
and also within project DTA.AD003.077, "Tipizzazione
di eventi di dissesto idrogeologico," of the CNR, Department of Scienze del sistema Terra e Tecnologie per
l'Ambiente.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Carlo Noviello (noviello.c@irea.cnr.it) received his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering
from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in 2011
and 2015, respectively. Since 2012, he has been collaborating with the National Research Council, Institute for
Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, Naples.
His research interests include electromagnetic modeling
and statistical signal processing, with an emphasis on radar imaging systems.
Simona Verde (verde.s@irea.cnr.it) received her M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in telecommunication engineering and her Ph.D. degree in information engineering from
the University of Naples "Parthenope," Italy, in 2011 and
2015, respectively. Since 2011, she has been collaborating
with the National Research Council Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, Naples. Her main
research interests include spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data processing, multibaseline DInSAR, and SAR
tomography, with a special application focus on environmental and built monitoring. She received an award at the
Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event Student Paper Competition, São Paulo, Brazil, in 2013.
Virginia Zamparelli (zamparelli.v@irea.cnr.it) received
her M.S. degree in telecommunications engineering in
2009 at the Federico II University of Naples, Italy, and her
Ph.D. degree in electrical and information engineering
at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy, in
2014. Since 2009, she has been with the National Research
Council (CNR), Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the
Environment, Naples. Her research activity concerns the
processing of synthetic aperture radar data acquired from
airplanes or satellites for land and marine applications. In
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2010, she participated in the establishment of Remocean
srl, a spin-off of CNR, a marine and coastal monitoring
company. In 2013, she was a visiting student at the Polytechnic University of Catalugna, Barcelona, Spain.
Gianfranco Fornaro (fornaro.g@irea.cnr.it) received his
M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering
and his Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering
from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in 1992 and
1997, respectively. Since 1993, he has been with the National Research Council, Institute for the Electromagnetic
Sensing of the Environment, Naples, where he is currently
a research director. He has been a lecturer with the International Summer School on Radar/Synthetic Aperture Radar organized by the Fraunhofer Institute, Bonn, Germany,
since 2010 and with the NATO Lecture Series SET 191 since
2013. In 2013, he achieved the Full Professor Habilitation
in telecommunication. He served as a guest editor for special issues of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He serves as an
associate editor for IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Letters.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Antonio Pauciullo (pauciullo.a@irea.cnr.it) received his
Dr.Eng. degree (with honors) and his Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Naples Federico
II, Italy, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He is with the National Research Council, Institute for the Electromagnetic
Sensing of the Environment, Naples. Since 2004, he has
been an adjunct professor of digital signal processing with
the University of Cassino, Italy. Currently his main research
activity concerns development of synthetic aperture radar tomography techniques, used for 3D imaging and monitoring
of buildings and infrastructures.
Diego Reale (reale.d@irea.cnr.it) received his M.D.
degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Cassino, Italy, in 2007 and his Ph.D. degree in
information engineering from the University of Naples
"Parthenope," Italy, in 2011. He is with the National Research Council, Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of
the Environment, Naples. He received an award at the Joint
Urban Remote Sensing Event 2011 Student Competition.
In 2012, his paper "Tomographic Imaging and Monitoring
of Buildings With Very High Resolution Data" received the
2011 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Best Paper Award. Since late 2019, he has served as an associate
editor of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. He is a
Member of the IEEE.
Gianfranco Nicodemo (gnicodemo@unisa.it) received
his M.Sc. degree in civil engineering and his Ph.D. degree (Europaeus Doctor) in civil engineering, architecture, and environmental and territory protection (curriculum: measures and infrastructures for environmental
and territory protection) from the University of Salerno,
Italy, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. Currently, he is a
postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Civil
Engineering, University of Salerno. His main research activities include vulnerability analysis and the generation
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