Gender: Male

Date of birth: April 19^th, 1977

Place of birth: Milan, Italy

Nationality: Italian

2007

PhD (University of Milan and CNR)

Final exam on January 18^th, 2007.

Dissertation on “An operational tool to monitor crop water requirements at the regional scale with time series of satellite images and meteorological data”. The work was carried out at the CNR-IREA (National Research Council of Italy - Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment). Tutors: A.Rampini, M.A.Gomarasca, S.Bocchi and T.Maggiore.

November 2003 – June 2004

24^th Professional Master on “Geomatics and Natural Resources Evaluation”held at the Istituto Agronomico per l’Oltremare, part of the scientific branch of the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry, in Florence, Italy. The second module of the course (February-June) was a complete, interdisciplinary case study including one month of fieldwork in Tunisia (April 2004). Official language was English. Participants were from 9 different countries.  www.iao.florence.it/training/geomatics

2003

5 years degree in Environmental Sciences with specialization in Agriculture (University of Milan). Final exam on July 16^th, 2003.

Dissertation on “Environmental degradation and conflicts: mapping Supply-Induced Scarcity through GIS technology”. Tutors: prof. S. Bocchi and prof. T. Maggiore.

 1996

“Liceo Classico” Diploma.

Achieved at the Liceo Scientifico con Sezione Classica annessa di S.Donato Milanese, S. Donato Milanese (MI), Italy.

May 19^th-21^st 2010

Course “Shell Programming in LINUX”, Atos Origin.

 March 18^th-20^th 2009

Course “Building Geodatabases”, ESRI Italia.

 February 19^th-20^th 2009

Course “Fundamentals and programming techniques in MATLAB”, The Mathworks.

 June 22^nd-27^th 2008

International Summer School on Hydrological Drought and Global Change, ICTP, Trieste, Italy.

 December 17^th -20^th 2007

Course on “Web application design with JAVA” – Valtech Training.

 April 23^rd-27^th 2007

METIER Graduate Training Course No. 3: Remote Sensing of the Land Surface (University of Leicester, UK and PEER Initiative).

 February 2007

Course “Advanced Topics in IDL” at Research Systems – ITT Visual Solutions Inc.

 December 2006 – February 2007

Participation to 4 seminars on Minnesota MapServer, held at the Politechnic of Milan in the framework of the IDE-Univers project.

 Jul. 31^st-Aug.11^th 2006

European Space Agency 3^rd ENVISAT Summer School (“Earth system monitoring and modelling”, with a focus on Remote Sensing data assimilation within environmental models) (http://envisat.esa.int/envschool). ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.

 February 2006

Course “Intermediate Programming with IDL” at Research Systems – ITT Visual Solutions Inc.

 September 2005

COST 719 Summer School on Application of GIS in Meteorology and Climatology.

COST European Framework Programme – CNR Ibimet.

 July 2005

3^rd Annual Vespucci Summer School in Geographical Information Science. “Spatial Data Infrastructures and the Spatial Grid”. Geospatial Partners-Vespucci Initiative (www.vespucci.org).

November 2007 – now

Researcher

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra (VA), Italy. URL: http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

 November 2006-October 2007

Research fellow at the CNR-IREA (Italian National Research Council – Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment - Remote Sensing Department) in the context of the project AWARE (A tool for monitoring and forecasting Available WAter REsource in mountain environment, www.aware-eu.info).

2003- January 2007

PhD student at the CNR-IREA and at the University of Milan.

2005-2006

Occasional consulting activities for the environmental engineering company TEI S.p.A. of Milan (www.tei.it) (while doing the PhD).

Working in the JRC DESERT action on the set up of a European Drought Observatory (EDO).

Within this group, I am in charge of developing processing systems for EO data processing for environmental monitoring, with a focus on operational drought monitoring. In particular, I am developing algorithms for the exploitation of Earth Observation data and their integration with other information for the operational production of drought-related indicators (e.g. vegetation stress, soil moisture).

Data used are collected by different optical sensors (MERIS and MODIS) and radar remote sensing (soil moisture estimations from ERS scatterometers) and processed on a LINUX cluster to harmonize and integrate them and produce new information (composite indicator). MERIS data are delivered through the ESA Service Support Environment (SSE). Algorithms are coded in IDL (also object oriented) and LINUX Bash.

More information at http://desert.jrc.ec.europa.eu.

Member of the Italian Remote Sensing Society (A.I.T.)

• Italian: native speaker.
• English: excellent level.

(Certificate of Proficiency in English - CPE –highest level of certification in the ESOL exams at the University of Cambridge)

• French:good level.
• Spanish: basic level.

• GIS software:

ESRI ArcGIS

• Digital image processing software:

ITT Visual Solutions ENVI

• IDL advanced programming and object-oriented development.
• MATLAB programming.
• Spatial Data Infrastructure software

Universityof MinnesotaWeb Map Server

Geonetwork opensource Catalog

• Linux bash scripting.
• MS Office.

Good attitude towards studying and lifelong learning and good flexibility to work in different areas of engineering and science.

Good communication skills and good attitude towards work in group and in international environments.

Great enthusiasm and ability to adapt and learn new skills to face new job challenges.

Peer-reviewed publications

• Rossi, S., Bocchi, S., Rampini, A., and Boschetti, M. 2010. “Monitoring daily crop water requirements at the regional scale with time series of satellite data”. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering 136(4): 225-231.
• Parajka, J., Pepe, M., Rampini, A., Rossi, S., and Blöschl, G. 2010. “A regional snow line method for estimating snow cover from MODIS during cloud cover”. Journal of Hydrology381: 203-212.
• Bocchi, S., Disperati, S.P., andRossi S.. 2006.Environmental Security: a Geographic Information System analysis approach. The case of Kenya. Environmental Management 37 (2): 186–199.

Conferences proceedings

• Rossi, S., Weissteiner, C., and Niemeyer, S. 2009. “Remote sensing drought indicators within the European Drought Observatory”. 33^rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment (ISRSE), Stresa (Italy), 4-8 May 2009.
• Rossi, S., Niemeyer, S., and Weissteiner, C. 2009. “Pre-operational production of remote sensing drought indicators in the European Drought Observatory”. 29^th EARSeL Symposium, Chania (Greece), 15-18 June 2009.
• Rossi, S., Weissteiner, C., Laguardia, G., Kurnik, B., Robustelli, M., Niemeyer, S., and Gobron, N. 2008. “Potential of MERIS fAPAR for drought detection”, in Lacoste, H., and Ouwehand, L. (eds.), “Proceedings of the 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop”, 22–26 September 2008, Frascati Italy (ESA SP-666), ESA Communication Production Office, November 2008.
• Rossi, S., Niemeyer, S., Laguardia, G., Kurnik, B. 2008. “Multisource detection of drought events at the European scale”. EGU General Assembly 2008, Vienna, 14-18 April 2008. Geophysical Research Abstracts vol.10.
• Niemeyer, S., Laguardia, G., Kurnik, B., Rossi, S. 2008. “On the predictability of droughts over Europe by means of the Standardized Precipitation Index and the ECMWF monthly forecasts”. EGU General Assembly 2008, Vienna, 14-18 April 2008. Geophysical Research Abstracts vol.10.
• Poggioli, D., Rossi, S., Carrara, P., Bertozzi, R., Montaguti, M., Barea, M., Guimet, J., Redondo, M., Vaitis, M. 2007. “IDE-Univers: una infrastruttura di dati spaziali tematica per universita’ e centri di ricerca”. 11^a Conferenza Nazionale ASITA, Torino (Italy), November 6^th-9^th 2007.
• Rossi, S., Bocchi, S., Rampini, A., Bollini, F. 2007. “Monitoring crop water requirements with time series of MODIS satellite data in Northern Italy. Preliminary results”. 4th International Temperate Rice Conference 2007. Novara (Italy), 25-28 June 2007.
• Borgogno Mondino, E., and Rossi S. 2007. “A preliminary evaluation of a new geometry-driven resampling method applied to time series of MODIS images”. EARSeL workshop on “Tools and techniques for Analysis of time series of image data” – Bolzano (Italy), 7-8 June 2007.
• Rossi, S., Pepe, M., Colombi, A., Rampini A., Brivio, P.A. 2007. “Snowmelt Runoff Model automatic calibration within the AWARE project”. 27th EARSeL Symposium – Bolzano (Italy), 4-7 June 2007.
• Rossi, S., Gomarasca, M.A., Bocchi, S., Rampini, A.. 2006. “Monitoring crop evapotranspiration with time series of MODIS satellite data in Northern Italy”. 26^th EARSeL Symposium – Warsaw, May 29^th – June 2^nd 2006.

Italian publications

• Mariani, L., Bocchi, S., Cola, G., Rossi, S. 2005. La meteorologia in aiuto del frumento (Triticum aestivum L.) (Meteorology as a support for wheat crop (Triticum aestivum L.). Informatore Agrario 61(33).  

 Reports

• Various Authors. 2004. “Land Evaluation in the Oued Rmel catchment – Tunisia”. Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – IAO (Istituto Agronomico per l’Oltremare), Florence, Italy (149 pp.).

• Various volunteering activities (disabled people, foreign immigrants support).
  • Volunteer in three World Youth Day world meetings (Rome, Toronto, and Cologne) and in other international Taizé meetings.

Outdoor life (camping and traveling), reading, writing, music (I play flute, guitar and harmonica) and sports (sailing, basketball, soccer).