Personal information

Nationality

Italian

Date of birth

01/10/1984

Work experience

• Dates (from – to)

 04/2019 – 10/2019

• Name and address of employer

Université Savoie Mont Blanc

• Type of business or sector

Education and Research

• Occupation or position held

Post-doctoral Researcher

• Main activities and responsibilities

Research and Development on Time-series analysis of Polarimetric SAR imagery

Wavelet-based image analysis

Glacier monitoring applications based on multi-temporal PolSAR data.

Scientific reviewer of international scientific Journals

11/2014 – 03/2019

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

Research Institute

Junior Research Fellow

Research and Development on Time-series analysis of Polarimetric SAR imagery

Co-supervisor of project works, Bachelor and Master theses in Communication

Engineering – University of Trento.

Partecipanting in India-Trento Program for Advanced Research (ITPAR) program,

Scientific reviewer of international scientific Journals

• Dates (from – to)

 04/2013 – 10/2014

• Name and address of employer

Blue-Thread

• Type of business or sector

Marine Communication/Navigation Devices

• Occupation or position held

Firmware/Software Engineer

• Main activities and responsibilities

MEDUSE Project : Design of Software AIS Encoder/Decoder,  Design and validation of Marine Terminal Firmware, Support to Demo Activities

“Promotori Tecnologici” Announcement : Parsing of NMEA Weather data; Design of BlueShell Firmware

Android Apps for Google Play Store : development of BlueCompass, BlueRegatta, BluePass

• Dates (from – to)

 09/2012 – 01/2013

• Name and address of employer

Thales Alenia Space Italia

• Type of business or sector

Space Telecommunications

• Occupation or position held

Payload Engineer

• Main activities and responsibilities

Support Activities for Sicral-2 UHF Payload : Nonlinearity analysis and modeling

Support Activities for Alphasat TDP#5 : Commissioning and IOT Planning

• Dates (from – to)

 03/2010 – 10/2010

• Name and address of employer

Servizio Orientamento e Tutorato (Orienting and Tutoring Services)– Faculty of Engineering

• Type of business or sector

Information Office

• Occupation or position held

Employee

• Main activities and responsibilities

Public Relations

Education and training

• Dates (from – to)

11/2014 – 05/2019

• Name and type of organisation providing education and training

University of Trento – Department of Information and Computer Science – ICT Doctoral School

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Remote Sensing, SAR Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Earth Observation, Change Detection, VHR SAR and PolSAR data analysis.

• Title of qualification awarded

PhD in Remote Sensing

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Doctorate of Philosophy

• Dates (from – to)

12/2013 – 01/2014

• Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Associazione CarpeDiem

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Web-marketing, Budget and Accounting, Business Plan, Market Research, Start-ups and Business Incubators, Civil and Corporate Law

• Title of qualification awarded

Statement of Accomplishement for “GiovaneImpresa” Course for Start-uppers

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Short Course

• Dates (from – to)

02/2012 – 03/2013

• Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Faculty of Engineering

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Space Systems Electronics, Fundamentals of Space Systems, Satellite Navigation Systems, Satellite Communications Systems

• Title of qualification awarded

Advanced Communications and Navigation Satellite Systems

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Postgraduate course (Master di II livello)

• Dates (from – to)

09/2008 – 01/2012

• Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Engineering

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Antennas, Environmental Remote Sensing, Microwave Circuits, Radio-frequency Electronic Systems, E.m. Propagation, Radar Systems, Optics

• Title of qualification awarded

Degree in Electronic Engineering : grade 110/110 cum laude

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Master Degree (ord.509/99)

• Dates (from – to)

09/2003 – 09/2008

• Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Engineering

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Electronics, Electromagnetic Fields, Physics, Mathematical Analysis

• Title of qualification awarded

Degree in Electronic Engineering : rate 101/110

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Master Degree (ord.509/99)

• Dates (from – to)

09/1998 – 06/2003

• Name and type of organisation providing education and training

Liceo Scientifico “Ettore Majorana”, Isernia

• Principal subjects/occupational

skills covered

Italian Literature, Math, Physics, English, History, Philosophy

• Title of qualification awarded

High School Diploma (Final Grade 89/100)

• Level in national classification

(if appropriate)

Secondary School Diploma

Personal skills

and competences

Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered by formal certificates and diplomas.

Mother tongue

Italiano

Other languages

English

• Reading skills

Very GOOD

• Writing skills

Very GOOD

• Verbal skills

Very GOOD

French

• Reading skills

Good

• Writing skills

Good

• Verbal skills

Basic

Spanish

• Reading skills

Basic

• Writing skills

Basic

• Verbal skills

Basic

Social skills

and competences

Living and working with other people, in multicultural environments, in positions where communication is important and situations where teamwork is essential (for example culture and sports), etc.

Working with other people, reaching goals through the teamwork

Modular organization of  work

Technical skills

and competences

With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc.

Good knowledge of the MS Windows Operating System series.

Basic knowledge of Linux Systems

Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Eclipse IDE

Good knowledge of MATLAB, C and Arduino Programming Languages

Basic knowledge of Python, Java and VHDL languages

Basic knowledge of GIS Systems GRASS, QGIS and ArcGIS Online

Good knowledge of LabVIEW programming language (CLAD Certified)

Good knowledge of Sentinel Toolbox  and ENVI

Artistic skills

and competences

Music, writing, design, etc.

Solfège Diploma

Playing the piano or keyboards

Other skills

and competences

Competences not mentioned above.

Chess : 3N Category (FSI)

Scientific Reviewer for the following Scientific International Journals:

IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers),

Student member (2014-2019)

Member since 2019..

Co-supervisor of project works, Bachelor and Master theses in Communication

Engineering – University of Trento.

Project Works:

“Change Detection in Polarimetric SAR Images” (student M. Sebastiani);

“Damage detection in Urban areas from complex PolSAR images” (student T Leardini).

Bachelor Thesis:

“Texture-based Change Detection in Urban Areas from VHR SAR images” (student A. Fiore).

Master theses:

“Automatic Detection of Partially and Fully Destroyed Buildings in Multitemporal VHR SAR data” (student D. Bogale Aykadu);

“A Novel Approach to Multiple-Change Detection in Complex Polarimetric SAR Data” (student A. Tomasini).

Driving licence(s)

Italian Car Driving License (Patente B)

PUBLICATIONS

8.1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

[J1] D.Pirrone, F. Bovolo , L. Bruzzone , “A Novel Framework for Unsupervised Multi-class Change Detection in PolSAR Images”;, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, under review.

[J2] D.Pirrone, F. Bovolo , L. Bruzzone , “;Hierarchical Automatic Detection of Fully and Partially Destroyed Buildings in Multi-temporal VHR SAR images”;, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, in preparation.

8.2 BOOK CHAPTERS

[B1] B. Aiazzi, F. Bovolo, L. Bruzzone, A. Garzelli, D. Pirrone C. Zoppetti. “ChangeDetection in Multitemporal Images Through Single-and Multi-scale Approaches” Mathematical Models for Remote Sensing Image Processing.

Springer, Cham, 2018. 325-355.

8.3 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

[CI1] D. Pirrone, F. Bovolo, L. Bruzzone. “;Analysis of backscattering behaviors for partially damaged buildings” in VHR SAR images." Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXI. Vol. 9643. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2015.

[CI2] D. Pirrone, F. Bovolo, L. Bruzzone. “;A novel framework for change detection in bi-temporal polarimetric SAR images.”; Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXII. Vol. 10004. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016.

[CI3] D. Pirrone, S. De, A. Bhattacharya, L Bruzzone, F. Bovolo. “;Unsupervised change detection in built-up areas by multi-temporal polarimetric SAR images.”; Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2017 IEEE International. IEEE, 2017.

[CI4] S. De, D. Pirrone, F. Bovolo, L. Bruzzone, A Bhattacharya. “;A novel change detection framework based on deep learning for the analysis of multi-temporal polarimetric SAR images”; Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2017 IEEE International. IEEE, 2017.

8.4 THESES

[T1] D. Pirrone, “Advanced Methods for Change Detection in Multi-polarization and Very-High Resolution Multi-temporal SAR images”, advisor dr F. Bovolo, May 2019.

[T2] D. Pirrone, “Soil Moisture Content from SAR Images: Validation of a Multi-temporal Approach”, Master degree, advisor Prof. N. Pierdicca, January 2012.

[T3] D. Pirrone, “Design of a power supply board for a Data Acquisition (DAQ) system”, Bachelor degree, advisor Prof. A. Nascetti, September 2008.