Speaker: Prof. Ferdinando Nunziata

Affiliation: Sapienza University of Rome. 

Report Title: An EM Perspective to SAR for Ocean Applications

Abstract: 

Nowadays, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) represents a key tool to provide effective and continuous monitoring of the Earth's surface. The full understanding of SAR measurements relies on a physical analysis of the interaction between the microwaves and the observed scene on one side, and of the acquisition mechanism peculiar of this type of radar on the other side. 

In these lectures, the main mechanism ruling the interaction between the microwaves and the observed scene, namely the scattering, is reviewed from its theoretical foundations up to the approximate solutions developed to deal with operational cases. The theoretical aspects will be accompanied by numerical simulations contrasted with actual SAR measurements.

Biography: 

Ferdinando Nunziata (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Avellino, Italy, in 1982. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope,” Napoli, Italy, in 2003, 2005, and 2008, 992 respectively. Since 2024, he has been Full Professor of applied electromagnetics with the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. His research interests include sea surface scattering, radar polarimetry, SAR sea oil slick and metallic target monitoring, spatial resolution enhancement techniques, and GNSS-R.