PERSONAL INFORMATION

Sex  Male | Date of birth 05/08/1977| Nationality Italy

JOB APPLIED FOR

POSITION

PREFERRED JOB

STUDIES APPLIED FOR

Analyst engineer in the field of signal processing, SAR processing, ground moving target detection on SAR data, remote sensing, data simulation and classification

WORK EXPERIENCE

14/07/2008 - currently

  Analyst engineering

Edisoft

Research and Development of remote sensing and signal processing techniques, especially in the area of SAR.

PROJECTS:

2008-2010 – CleanSeaNet project

Operator in the CleanSeaNet service for the detection of oil pollution and analyst for SAR processor error monitoring.

CleanSeaNet is a European operational system for satellite detection of oil slicks for the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).  The service started in May 2007 and provides analysed images from ENVISAT and RADARSAT satellites. A network of receiving stations in Norway, Italy and the Azores (the later as of 2008) receives the satellite data, which will then be relayed to control centres for rapid processing and analysis by trained operators. EDISOFT is part of the consortium that will provide the service to the participating coastal states and to EMSA.

2008-2011 – Urban Heat Island project

Development of algorithms for remote sensing multispectral data processing in Urban Heat Island project. Particularly, the developed algorithms work with satellite-based data (SEVIRI data, EPS data, AVHRR data, SRTM data and LST derived by MODIS/AVHRR/ AATSR) and ground-based data (ground station data), with the aim to produce parameters and indices (Air Temperature, thermal stress indices, Urban heat island maps, Risk maps) related to heat wave events. The integrated system works in Near Real Time, acquiring directly the ground station data by the official meteorological organizations. The main issue of the project is the global and continuative monitoring on the climatic changes introduced by the urban environment, that influences the life of the people. Satellite data of different characteristics and spatial resolution are used, with the aim to analyze the advantages and limitations of each system.

 Urban Heat Island and Urban Thermography - UHI - project is financed by ESA in the framework of the DUE - Data User Element - program. EDISOFT is part of the consortium.

2010-2011 – ERS-2 SAR processor

Development of a SAR processor of ERS-2 data for the generation of SLC and PRI images from raw data. The processor has to be installed in Santa Maria Station (Azores) and processes raw data to produce level 1 data. The processor is structured in the following steps:

1) metadata and interesting processing parameters extraction;

2) SAR data focusing, using Range Doppler algorithm. The algorithm retrieves the two Doppler parameters necessary for the processing starting from orbit state vector and estimating directly by raw data.

3) Calibration of data, including the antenna pattern compensation;

4) Georeferencing of data, starting from the orbit state vector.

2009-2013 – G-AOC project

Development of SAR interferometric techniques to model the urban roughness around the airports.

Envisat/ERS data set is used in SBAS (Small Baseline Subset) interferometric algorithm to produce high resolution DSM (Digital Surface Model) and change map of the area around the airports.

G-AOC is a project financed by ESA with ANA (Aeroportos de Portugal, SA).

The project addresses the safety issue related with the stated obstructions (its locations and heights) regarding aeronautical infrastructures in Airport Obstruction Charts (AOC), and Precision Approach Terrain Charts, integrating Earth Observation data with other sources. The objective is to implement a methodology to provide periodically accurate 3-D geographic information from EO data and other data.

2009-2013 – MARISS project

Development of a SAR vessel detector implemented in MATLAB for MARISS project. The software ingests ERS PRI images, Envisat products, Radarsat-1 and Radarsat-2 products, and provides information about ship position, ship size and ship velocity.

The MARitime Security Service project (MARISS) is a Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Service Element (GSE) initiative, which responds to one of the consolidated needs of GSE: Maritime Security. The project, which is supported by the European Space Agency, is the result of European concern over the illegal marine trafficking.  Within the project, EDISOFT is responsible for providing to the Portuguese Users NRT SAR vessel detection and classification products by integrating Earth Observation EO (SAR) with non EO systems data like AIS, VTS, VMS and in the future LRIT.

2011-2013 – SeaU project

Improvement of oil spill detection through the integration of dedicated filtering techniques with the Support Vector Machine-based-classifier.

The oil service is a pan-European service, but a more cost-effective return on the investments in the GMES space component and the service element requires that the user bases increases. The project SeaU is based on the “Multisensor satellite technology for oil pollution monitoring and source identification”.

The project, which is supported by the European Commission, is the result of European concern over the marine pollution problem. The consortium is composed of the CSN service providers and R&D organisations with a high level of expertise within the area of remote sensing and marine surveillance.

SeaU project is funded under the 7th Research Framework Programme of the European Commission.

2011-2014– SEABILLA project

Development of SAR processing algorithms for vessel detection that improve the actual state of the art, space data fusion for optimization of the information; intelligence scheme implementation through the development of behaviour modulus for the analysis of potential ship abnormal behaviour depending on global ship positions, environmental conditions and a priori information.

Development and implementation of SAR raw/SLC data simulator of the marine environment, to simulate the meteorological conditions on the sea surface and the presence of moving ships.

The SeaBILLA project is dedicated to Sea Border Surveillance of European sea, with the aim to monitor the drug traffic, the immigration traffic and terroristic actions. The project aims to 1) define the architecture for cost-effective European Sea Border Surveillance systems, integrating space, land, sea and air assets, including legacy systems; 2) apply advanced technological solutions to increase performances of surveillance functions; 3) develop and demonstrate significant improvements in detection, tracking, identification and automated behaviour analysis of all vessels, including hard to detect vessels, in open waters as well as close to coast. SeaBILLA is based on requirements for Sea Border Surveillance defined by experienced operational users.

SEABILLA project is funded under the 7th Research Framework Programme of the European Commission.

2011-2014– Dolphin project

Development of advanced SAR processing algorithms for vessel detection and velocity estimation from single channel SAR data (raw and SLC) and post-processing techniques to produce operative tool for sea border surveillance.

Taking benefit from the previous and on-going efforts in the GMES context, the DOLPHIN project intends to develop the key technological and operational gap-filling innovations, leading in the mid-term to a full and sustainable operational exploitation of Earth Observation Satellites capabilities in the EU and MS maritime policies applications. DOLPHIN aims at developing new tools providing effective improvements of the state-of-the-art capabilities in Maritime Surveillance with respect to Users’ real needs in particular through filling their present technological gaps.

The identification of these technological gaps is made easier by the fact that the DOLPHIN partners have developed a solid experience through a number of past and on going initiatives, such as LIMES, MARISS, MarCoast, EMSA CSN, in which a wide European Users community in the Maritime Surveillance sector has already taken an active part in identifying application needs and technological gaps.

Dolphin project is funded under the 7th Research Framework Programme of the European Commission.

01/01/2008 - 13/07/2008

  Researcher in project PTDC/EEA-TEL/71996/2006: “Civil Traffic Monitoring Using SAR”

ISEL (High Institute of Engineering of Lisbon)

Development of MTI techniques for traffic monitoring with the SAR. The project is focused on the analysis and comparison of the different moving target detection techniques, depending on the SAR system type. A SAR simulator was realized to insert moving target on a stationary scene and to test the different methodologies

01/05/2006 - 30/06/2006

  Photo-interpreter

Geo-K

Classification on optical images for the project "GSE land"

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

23/09/2013 - 27/09/2013

ESA Advanced Ocean Training Course

Advanced training course on oceanography (National Maritime College of Ireland, Cork)

Basic theory and applications related to ocean remote sensing, focusing the following areas: Microwave imaging radiometer for Ocean salinity retrieval, radar altimetry, SAR, optical and infrared for ocean monitoring. Training of the software's BEAM, BRAT, SARTool, Bilko.

09/09/2013 - 13/09/2013

Living Planet Symposium

ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013 (Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh)

19/09/2011 - 23/09/2011

SAR Interferometry conference

Fringe 2011 Workshop (ESA-ESRIN, Frascati)

13/12/2010 - 17/12/2010

SAR interferometry - professional training

SARscape software Training Course (SARMAP, Switzerland)

SAR conventional interferometry, PS interferometry and SBAS processing for deformation monitoring and high resolution DEM generation, SARscape software training.

25/11/2009 - 27/11/2009

SAR processing tool training

NEST Toolbok Training Course (ESA-ESRIN, Frascati)

Analysis and post-processing of SAR images, SAR interferometry

23/11/2008 - 29/11/2008

SAR processor facility training

Edisoft

SAR processor facility training in Santa Maria station (Azores)

15/09/2007 - 17/11/2007

Collaboration for PhD activities

ISEL (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa), Lisboa (Portugal), Prof. Paulo Marques, DEETC

Collaboration about moving target detection techniques development using SAR

23/07/2007 - 27/07/2007

Remote sensing conference

IGARSS 2007 Conference, Barcelone (Spain)

22/01/2007 - 26/01/2007

SAR Polarimetry and Interferometry conference

PolinSAR 2007 Workshop (ESA-ESRIN, Frascati)

28/11/2005 - 02/12/2005

SAR Interferometry conference

Fringe 2005 Workshop (ESA-ESRIN, Frascati)

12/2005

Moving Target Detection Workshop

Workshop “On Space-based MTI Radar”, Alcatel Alenia Space Italia SpA

28/11/2005 - 02/12/2005

SAR Interferometry conference

Fringe 2005 Workshop (ESA-ESRIN, Frascati)

12/2004

Engineering

Tor Vergata University of Rome

Recognition of the Italian Engineering

01/11/2004 - 22/05/2008

PhD Student

Tor Vergata University of Rome

SAR processing and Moving Target Detection applied on ship traffic monitoring. The work is focused on the knowledge of the velocity effects in SAR signal, analyzing the multi-channel and single channel systems. Moreover, both level 0 and level 1b data are used to retrieve the interesting information. 

Thesis: “Estimation of the velocity vector of moving targets from SAR images”.

15/11/2002 - 07/07/2004

Specialistic Engineering (Master) degree with grade 108/110

Tor Vergata University of Rome

Telecommunication Engineering

Thesis: “Implementation of an algorithm in the time domain to generate SAR images”.

01/10/1996 - 15/11/2002

Engineering (bachelor’s) degree with grade 108/110

Tor Vergata University of Rome

Telecommunication Engineering

Thesis: “Street Detection in SAR images with genetic algorithms”

PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue(s)

Italian

Other language(s)

UNDERSTANDING

SPEAKING

WRITING

Listening

Reading

Spoken interaction

Spoken production

English

B2

C1

B2

B2

B2

Portuguese

C2

C2

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C2

C1

German

A2

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French

A2

A1

Levels: A1/2: Basic user – B1/2: Independent user – C1/2 Proficient user

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Communication skills

§  Very good ability to adapt to multicultural environments, gained through my work experience abroad during seminars and work in international context

 Organisational / managerial skills

§  Sense in organization (experience in logistics); Good experience and very good predisposition in project or team management

Job-related skills

§  Competence about signal processing, SAR processing and algorithm implementation, moving target techniques, remote sensing, image processing, data simulation

Computer skills

§  Very good command of Microsoft Office tools and MATLAB platform, ENVI program, BEAM program, NEST program, SARscape program, good command of ERDAS program and the programmation language C, fairly good command of the program ArcView

Other skills

§  Sports (particularly ski, swimming, sail, tennis), Music (piano and electronic piano)

Driving license

§  Category B

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Publications

A. Radius, D. Solimini, "A Velocity Vector Estimation algorithm Tested on Simulated SAR Raw Data", International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2007, Barcelona, Spain, 23-27 July 2007

A. Radius, P. Marques, “A Novel Methodology for Full Velocity Vector Estimation of Ships Using SAR Data”, Proc. Of the 7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR´08, 2-5 June 2008

A. Radius, P. Marques, “The SOVE algorithm for Full Velocity Vector Estimation of Ships Using amplitude SAR Data”, Quartas jornadas de Engenharia de Electrónica e Telecomunicações e de Computadores, JETC ´08, 20-21 November 2008

H. Oliveira, M. Rodrigues, A. Radius, “High Resolution Digital Surface Model for Production of Airport Obstruction Charts using Spaceborne SAR sensors”, FRINGE 2011 Conference on Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry from ESA, 19-23 September 2011

A. Radius, P. Marques, “A Study on the Radial Velocity Information obtained from SAR Sub-apertures”, Proc. Of the 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR´12, 23-26 April 2012

K.De Ridder, B.Mailheu, D.Lauwaet, G.Ceriola, I.Keramitsoglou, E.Montero Herrero, A. Radius, B.Dousset, K.Kourtidis, J.Sobrino, M.Paganini, “Urban heat island intensity of Paris during the Summer 2003 heat island”, 8th International Conference on Urban Climates, ICUC8, 06-10 August 2012.

A. Radius, P. Marques, “Synthetic Aperture Radar Raw Data Simulator for Sea Environment Dedicated to Moving Ship Detection”, Proc. Of Sensor Signal Processing for Defence Conference, SSPD 2012, 25-27 September 2012.

A. Radius, J.Ferreira, P.Carmo, P. Marques, “Advanced Ship Detection for Spaceborne based Maritime Awareness”, European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium, Edinburgh, 09-13 September 2013

A. Radius, R.Azevedo, T.Sapage, P.Carmo, “Advanced Oil Spill Detection Algorithms for Satellite based Maritime Environment Monitoring", European Space Agency Living Planet Symposium, Edinburgh, 09-13 September 2013

A. Radius, P. Marques, “Velocity Vector Estimation of Moving Targets using C-Band SLC Strip Map SAR data”, Proc. Of the 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR´14, 02-05 June 2014 

Presentations

Projects

§  Operator in CleanSeaNet (EMSA), technical responsible of Urban Heat Island (ESA), technical manager and principal investigator of a SAR processor development for ERS-2, technical responsible of G-AOC (ESA), technical responsible of a Vessel Detector Software development for MARISS project, technical responsible of SeaU (EC), technical responsible of SEABILLA (EC), technical responsible of Dolphin (EC).

Memberships

§  IEEE member