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CV: Postdoc reasearch fellow in Earth Observation
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Occupational field |
Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, Environmental data analysis, GIS and mapping |
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Work experience |
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Dates |
9/2011- present |
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Occupation or position held |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Earth Observation |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
- Research projects on: Urban Heat Island and Energy Balance, Land Cover change, Solar Energy Assessment and Renewable Energies |
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Name and address of employer |
Prof. Hosni Ghedira c/o Masdar Institute of Science and Technology PO Box 54224, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates |
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Type of business or sector |
Earth Observation, Environment |
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Dates |
10/2007 – 7/2011 |
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Occupation or position held |
Remote Sensing Analyst |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
Remote sensing and GIS application on optical images (VIS, IR and TIR images, multispectral and hyperspectral) for land and urban processes |
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Name and address of employer |
Del Frate Fabio c/o Dip. di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzione dell’Università di Tor Vergata Via del Politecnico,1 00133 Roma -ITALY- |
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Type of business or sector |
Earth Observation, GIS |
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Dates |
4/2010 – 11/2010 |
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Occupation or position held |
ESA trainee stagiaire |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
Implementation of image processing procedures and EO parameters retrieval in KEO (Knowledge-centered Earth Observation) system |
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Name and address of employer |
D’Elia Sergio c/o ESA-ESRIN –Research and Service Support section- Via Galileo Galilei 00044 Frascati (Roma) –ITALY- |
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Type of business or sector |
Ground segment and end-users applications |
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Dates |
4/2008 – 9/2009 |
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Occupation or position held |
Earth Observation and GIS consultant |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
Manager and technical consultant for for ESA-DUE ‘Urban Heat Island’ project, GIS and remote sensing application for GMES LAND and SEALING project (GSE Land) |
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Name and address of employer |
Del Frate Fabio c/o GEO-K S.r.l. Via del Politecnico,1 00133 Roma -ITALY- |
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Type of business or sector |
Earth Observation for GMES and ESA projects |
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Dates |
01/2004 - 11/2004 |
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Occupation or position held |
Research Assistant |
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Main activities and responsibilities |
Application of geostatistics in environmental studies, lecturing for laboratory sessions |
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Name and address of employer |
Bevilacqua Paolo c/o Dip. di Ing. Chimica dell’Ambiente e delle Materie Prime Università degli Studi di Trieste Piazzale Europa n. 1 - 34127 Trieste |
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Type of business or sector |
environmental geostatistics |
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Education |
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Dates |
10/2007 – 12/2010 |
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Title of qualification to award |
PhD in “Geoinformation” |
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Principal subjects / occupational skills covered |
The PhD programme included a main project on automatic classification of Very High Resolution optical images and its application to urban thermography. Other duties regarded the use of IDL to automatic processing of optical images. |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
Tor Vergata University – Rome (I)- |
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Dates |
9/2006- 9/2007 |
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Title of qualification to award |
Master of Science course in “Remote Sensing” (second class Master) |
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Principal subjects / occupational skills covered |
The master provided the theory and the application of remote sensing to collect environmental information. Several coursework covered a wide variety of topics like mineral exploration, classification, flooding (with LiDAR data), vegetation studies (burned area detection and chlorophyll estimation), Sea Surface Temperature, rainfall estimation |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
University College London (UCL) – Department of Geomatic Engineering - London (UK) Imperial College London (ICL) – Department of Earth Science and engineering - London (UK) |
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Dates |
4/2003 - 7/2004 |
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Title of qualification awarded |
First class Master in "Cartography and GIS" |
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Principal subjects / occupational skills covered |
georeferenced data management |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
Trieste University (Italy) |
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Dates |
10/1997 - 12/2002 |
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Title of qualification awarded |
Graduated in "Natural Sciences" (BS+MS) with 110/110 cum laude |
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Principal subjects / occupational skills covered |
Earth sciences and life sciences, specialized on the support of GIS and remote sensing to ecology and vegetation analysis. |
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Name and type of organisation providing education and training |
Trieste University (Italy) |
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Mother tongue(s) |
Italian |
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Other language(s) |
English, German | |
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Social skills and competences |
Ability to adapt to multicultural environments, reliable, open minded, enthusiastic and self-motivated, oriented to solve problems with deadlines on project group or personal assignment |
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Computer skills and competences |
- Good command of Microsoft Office tools - Good command of IDL program language (5 years) and MATLAB - Good command of Remote Sensing and GIS software (ENVI, ERDAS Microstation, ArcGIS, ER Mapper, Idrisi 32) - Basic knowledge of HTML and WebGIS - Ground measurement station deployment - “Learning ArcGIS Desktop (for ArcGIS 9.0-9.1)” certificate obtained at ESRI training centre at 31/10/2006 - NEST (NEXT ESA SAR Toolbox) training course at ESA-ESRIN 25-27/11/2009 - KEO (Knowledge-Centered Earth Observation)Training Course at ESA-ESRIN, 22,23/3/2010 |
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Organisational skills and competences |
- Experience in project and team management, writing EU proposal, Invitation to tender and Business Plan writing -“Focus enterprise ITech” basic course for perspective entrepreneurs (BIC Lazio, October-November 2009) |
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Awards |
MSc funded by NERC scholarship, Obtainment of a student travel grant to attend IGARSS 2010, Co-chair of session “Satellite observation of Vegetation and Temperature” at IGARSS 2010 |
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Papers |
1) M. Lazzarini, P.R. Marpu, H. Ghedira, “Temperature-land cover interactions: the inversion of Urban Heat Island phenomenon in desert city areas”, submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment. 2) M. Lazzarini, F. Del Frate, G. Ceriola, “Automatic generation of Building Temperature Maps from Hyperspectral data” , IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters., vol. 8, n. 2, March 2011. 3) P. Bevilacqua, M. Lazzarini, “Environmental monitoring: geostatistics applied to the Lagoon of Grado and Marano (italy) characterisation”, Siti Contaminati, 2/2004, pp 36-48, 2004. 4) A. Comuzzi, M. Lazzarini, “Preliminary studies of the correlation between the concentration of pollutants and their hyperspectral response: a methodological approach”, Siti Contaminati, 2/2004, pp 50-62, 2004. |
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Recent conferences |
1) M. Lazzarini, H. Ghedira, “Temporal analysis of Urban Heat Island and radiation balance for a desert urban area”, presented at IGARSS 2012, Munich (D), 22-27 July, 2012. 2) M. Lazzarini, P.R. Marpu, H. Ghedira, “Land Surface Temperature and land cover interactions in desert areas: a case study of Abu Dhabi city (UAE)”, proceedings on IGARSS 2012, Munich (D), 22-27 July, 2012. 3) M. Lazzarini, J.G. Liu, F. Del Frate, “Hyperspectral image enhancement using thermal bands: a methodology to remove building shadows”, proceedings on IGARSS 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), 25-30 July, 2010. 4) M. Lazzarini, F. Del Frate, “Features extraction from hyperspectral images: an approach based on spectral, textural and spatial information applied to urban environments”, proceedings on Hyperspectral 2010 Workshop, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, (I), March 17- 19, 2010. 5) M. Lazzarini, F. Del Frate, G. Ceriola. “Automatic buildings extraction from hyperspectral data and its application to urban thermography”. Image Information Mining ESA-EUSC 2009, EUSC, Torrejon air base - Madrid (Spain), November 3-5, 2009. |
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Thesis and Dissertations |
- PhD in “Geoinformation” thesis (2010): “Unsupervised classification of Very High Resolution (VHR) optical images and its applications” (tutor: prof Del Frate F.) - Master in “Remote Sensing” dissertation (2007): “Spectral enhancement of alteration associated with epithermal gold deposits in region III, Northern Chile” (tutors: prof Liu J.G. and Mason P.) - Master in “Cartography and GIS” dissertation (2004): “Environmental monitoring: comparison (or correlation) between pollutants distribution maps, obtained with geostatistical methods from samples points, and their hyperspectral responses - preliminary studies-“ (tutor: Prof. Bevilacqua P.) - Degree in “Natural Sciences” thesis (2002): “Study of vegetation changes in Lignano Sabbiadoro (Italy) due to anthropic causes using remote sensing and application of GIS” (tutor prof. Feoli E.) |
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