Professional Experience
Date From November 6, 2006
Occupation or position held Temporary Research contract in the Remote Sensing Field
Main activities Study & Research Activities concerning the application of the Advanced Differential Interferometric
SAR Techniques for the monitoring of Earth’s surface deformation. A particular emphasis is done to
the following issues: 1) Space-Time Phase unwrapping algorithms, 2)Integration of multi-sensor /
multi-angle SAR data, 3) Development of Advanced Inversion Algorithms to retrieve the deformation
information.
Name and address of employer IREA-CNR, 328,Diocleziano,80125, Napoli, Italy
Date From November 1, 2003 To November 5, 2006
Position Holder of a Grant for attending the PhD course in Electronic and Telecommunication Eng.
Main activities Study and Research
Name and address of employer Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II
Date From September, 2005 To December, 2005
Position Visiting Research
Main activities Study of the Temporal Behavior of the Surface Deformation of the Houston Area via the generation of
interferometric deformation time series
Name and address of employer Austin, Texas (USA), Aerospace Eng. And Mechanics Eng. Department
Date From December 1, 2001 To October 31, 2003
Position Holder of an aid grant in the Remote Sensing field, and in particular to the Differential Synthetic
Aperture Radar Technology
Main activities Study and Research
Name and address of employer IREA-CNR, 328,Diocleziano,80125, Napoli, Italy
Date From August 3, 2000 To November 30, 2001
Position Full-Time Contract
Main activities As a Traffic Engineer, the main activities were relevant to the dimensioning and maintenance of
Mobile Telecommunication Networks with an eye on the GPS/GPRS/UMTS systems.
Name and address of employer Wind s.p.a Telecomunicazioni
Education and training
Dates February 11, 2007
Title of qualification awarded PhD degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Eng.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered
Remote Sensing, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Differential Interferometry Techniques, Electromagnetic
and Telecommunication theories. Thesis Title: “Advanced Differential Interferometric SAR
Techniques”
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II
Dates May 26, 2000
Title of qualification awarded Laurea Degree in Electronic Eng.
Principal subjects/occupational skills
covered
Remote Sensing, Synthetic Aperture Radar . Thesis Title “La missione spaziale Cassini”
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II
Personal skills and
competences
Mother tongue(s) Italian
Other language(s)
Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing
European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
English B2(*) Good B2 Good B2 Good B2 Good B2 Good
French A2(*) Sufficient A2 Sufficient A2 Sufficient A2 Sufficient A2 Sufficient
(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
The grade of knowledge of the English Language is certified by the following attendance course certification
· Upper Intermediate course, Central School of English, London from 12 November, 2007 to 23
November, 2007
· Upper Intermediate course, the British Council of Naples, from 07 February, 2008 al 29 May, 2008
Published Papers Lundgren, P., F. Casu, M. Manzo, A. Pepe, P. Berardino, E. Sansosti, and R. Lanari (2004), “Gravity
and magma induced spreading of Mount Etna volcano revealed by satellite radar interferometry”,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L04602, doi: 10.1029/2003GL018736.
Borgia, A., P. Tizzani, G. Solaro, M. Manzo, F. Casu, G. Luongo, A. Pepe, P. Berardino, G. Fornaro,
E. Sansosti, G. P. Ricciardi, N. Fusi, G. Di Donna, R. Lanari (2005): “Volcanic spreading of Vesuvius,
a new paradigm for interpreting its volcanic activity”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L03303,
doi:10.1029/2004GL022155.
Michele Manunta, Antonio Pepe, Eugenio Sansosti, Riccardo Lanari: “On the Extension of the SBAS
Technique for ERS/ENVISAT and Full Resolution Interferogram Processing”, Atti della “Fondazione
Giorgio Ronchi” – Selected papers of GOLD IEEE Remote Sensing Conference, Anno LX, N. 4, pp.
627-634, July-August, 2005.
Antonio Pepe, Eugenio Sansosti, Paolo Berardino and Riccardo Lanari: “On the Generation of
ERS/ENVISAT DinSAR Time-Series via the SBAS technique”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Letters, vol 2, numero 3, pp. 265-269, July 2005.
Antonio Pepe and Riccardo Lanari: “On the extension of the Minimum Cost Flow Algorithm for Phase
Unwrapping of Multi-temporal Differential SAR Interferograms” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing, vol. 44, n.9, pp. 2374-2383, September 2006.
A . Perrone, G. Zeni, S. Piscitelli, A. Pepe, A. Loperte, V. Lapenna, R. Lanari: “Joint analysis of SAR
Interferometry and Electrical Resistivity Tomography surveys for investigating ground deformations:
the case-study of Satriano di Lucania (Potenza, Italy)”, special issue of Engineering Geology on
“Remote sensing and ground-based geophysical techniques for recognition, characterisation and
monitoring of unstable slopes, 88(2006) pp. 260-273.
R. Lanari, F. Casu, M. Manzo, G. Zeni, P. Berardino, M. Manunta, A. Pepe: “An overview of the Small
Baseline Subset Algorithm: a DInSAR Technique for Surface Deformation Analysis”, in Pure And
Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), vol. 164, 4, pp. 637-661, doi: 10.1007/s00024-007-0192-9.
E. Trasatti, F. Casu, C. Giunchi, S. Pepe, G. Solaro, S. Tagliaventi, P. Berardino, M. Manzo, A. Pepe,
G. P. Ricciardi, E. Sansosti, P. Tizzani, G. Zeni, and R. Lanari (2008), The 2004–2006 uplift episode
at Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy): Constraints from SBAS-DInSAR ENVISAT data and Bayesian source
inference, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, L073078, doi:10.1029/2007GL033091.
Casu, F., Manzo, M., Pepe, A., Lanari R. (2008), SBAS-DInSAR Analysis of Very Extended Areas:
First Results on a 60,000 km2 Test Site, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 5, no. 3,
doi:10.1109/LGRS.2008.916199.
A. Pepe, M. Manzo, F. Casu, G. Solaro, P. Tizzani, G. Zeni, S. Pepe: “ Surface Deformation of Active
Volcanic Areas Retrievd with the SBAS-DInSAR Technique: an Overview”, in stampa su Annals of
Geophysics [Paper #18-MGMEESV-CT-2006].
Several Congress Memories (about 50)
Computer skills Programming Languages: Pascal, C/C++, Matlab, IDL, Fortran
Analysis Packages: Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Visual Basic, Corel Draw, Grass, ENVI, Map
Info, Tems, OMC Siemens.
Operative Systems : Windows, Unix/Linux
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