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The sea state monitoring systems mounted in coastal zones allow us to estimate the physical parameters involved in those phenomena occurring in a coastal environment, as the erosion and the instability caused by both natural (e.g., the action of the coastal currents and waves) and anthropogenic factors (e.g., maritime works…
Concerning the applications, the experimental results may be useful for the revision of the exposure limits to electromagnetic fields. As a matter of fact, the current limits, set by the European Commission and national legislation for the general population exposure to electromagnetic fields in the range 0 Hz-300 GHz, are…
Using nanoparticles offers great potentiality and perspectives in novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Despite the rapid progress and initial acceptance of nanobiotechnology, adverse effects on human health due to exposure to various concentrations of nanoscale materials have not yet been established. Materials in the nanometer range can exhibit physico-chemical characteristics…
The study of cooperative effects between electromagnetic fields and other agents, i.e. evaluating the effects of combined exposures to electromagnetic field and chemical or physical agents, including environmental pollutants, offers a variety of applications. First, it allows to investigate the possibility that electromagnetic field exposure could contribute in cancer promotion…
FOREST FIRES IN EUROPE In Europe, on average, about 65000 fires occur every year, burning approximately half a million hectares of vegetated areas; more than 85% of the area affected by fires is in Mediterranean countries (southern France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain) (San-Miguel-Ayanz and Camia, 2010). Fires can become…
The measurement of ground deformation in volcanic areas is extremely important because these often occur as precursors of eruptions, or however are indicative of an increase of volcanic activity. Under the pressure of the magma present below the volcanoes, in fact, the volcano tends to "inflate" its walls to deform…
Cancer is nowadays among the main causes of human death, and the availability of diagnostic techniques, to detect its presence from the earliest stages of onset, together with treatment protocols, acting directly on the lesion with reduced impact on the surrounding healthy tissue, is at the base of both…
The inversion algorithm depicted in Figure does not allow estimating the sea state parameters and the surface current if applied on X-band radar data acquired during the navigation. In this case, the relative motion between the ship and the sea surface causes some variations in the spectrum of the signal…
The X-band radars employed by IREA researchers to estimate the sea-state parameters and the surface currents was originally developed to carry out maritime surveillance tasks. As a matter of fact, an appropriate processing of data provided by such systems allows us to get in real-time a reliable estimate of the…
A non-destructive and minimally invasive characterization of non-directly accessible spatial regions is of huge interest in several applicative fields. Examples are: - detection and monitoring of utilities; - mapping of asphalt layers extent and status; - remote investigation of planets’ soil in order to detect the presence of water; -…
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Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry
Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, or, more generally, deformation phenomena of…