August 2008 BAGS Meeting:
Satellite Interferometry using Permanent Scatterers
Fabio Rocca
Politecnico di Milano
Electrical Engineering
Friday August 1, 2008
Please join us
for lunch in the Chevron cafeteria. Remember
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Abstract:
Permanent Scatterers (PS) are radar targets -- typically on man-made
structures -- distributed across the earth's surface and tracked by
satellites, constituting a sort of "natural geodetic network".
The PS technique is a unique tool that detects, measures and monitors
different geophysical phenomena (e.g. subsidence, uplift, landslides,
seismic faults, etc.) to sub-centimeter resolution, and can verify the
stability of individual buildings. Several examples of the technology
will be presented. If you are interested in hearing about an
interesting application of geophysical signal processing from a world
expert, your attendance will be well rewarded.
Biography: Fabio Rocca [off-site]
Professor
Rocca’s research activities have been dedicated to digital signal
processing in television bandwidth compression, in emission tomography,
in seismic data processing and in Synthetic Aperture Radar.
The research activities in seismics were dedicated to multichannel
filtering, interpolation of faulted surfaces, migration in the
frequency domain, Dip Move out processing, non linear deconvolution,
offset and shot continuation, and to the use of drill bit noise for
"while drilling" investigations.
Education
- Dottore in Ingegneria in 1962 (cum laude) from the Department of Electronics in the Politecnico di Milan
Experience (partial taken from Jon Clearbout)
- 1963, teaching assistant Department of Electronics in the Politecnico di Milan
- 1967, associate professor Department of Electronics in the Politecnico di Milan
- 1975 Full professor of radio techniques and now as a professor of digital signal processing.
- Department head in 1975 and then moved on to the University Board of Regents in 1980.
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