Satellite technologies have widely demonstrated their effectiveness in continuous environmental monitoring and territorial planning and management. Today, the remote sensing community is experiencing an unprecedented abundance of data which is boosting the development of more and more applications for temporal analysis of our rapidly changing planet. This is also true for SAR data which, under the aegis of the Copernicus Programme of the European Space Agency, are distributed free of charge to any kind of user.

However, this huge availability of data is posing new problems to the SAR scientific community. Visualization, change-detection, clustering, and labelling of long time-series in a big-data scenario is still an open problem, as well as their exploitation in combination with other sensory data in a multifrequency environment.

The purpose of this talk is to provide an overview of SAR multitemporal data processing, from visualization to exploitation in applicative scenarios like emergency response or semi-arid environments. The usage of both coherent and detected data will be discussed, as well as possible solutions for multifrequency data fusion using artificial intelligence.

About the Speaker

Donato Amitrano was born in Naples, Italy, on December 27, 1985. He received the Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, the Master’s Degree in Aerospace and Astronautical Engineering, and the PhD in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy, in 2009, 2012, and 2016, respectively. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Naples “Federico II”. In this period, he was co-founder and CEO of Latitudo40, a high-tech start-up working on artificial intelligence solutions for Earth Observation applications. In 2019, he joined the Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, UK, as a Research Associate. Starting from 2021, he is with the Aerospace Systems and Earth Observation Laboratory at the Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Capua, Italy. Dr. Amitrano is a technical consultant and expert reviewer for public authorities, scientific journals, and private companies. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Associate Editor for the Journal IEEE Access, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Section. His research interests include microwave, multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and computer vision.