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Wednesday, 30 December 2015 17:19
Continental scale mapping capabilities of Sentinel-1 sensor: the 12-days InSAR coherence over Europe
Sentinel-1 is the first satellite of the Copernicus program and is equipped with a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensor that is able to provide day-night acquisitions nearly over the whole World. The Sentinel-1 operational mode on land is the so-called Interferometric Wide Swath (IWS), which guarantees the Earth’s global coverage…
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Friday, 11 December 2015 15:38
Training course on the SBAS-DInSAR web tool for Earth surface deformation analysis
In the frame of the next AGU 2015 Fall meeting IREA-CNR organized a training event on “Training on the SBAS-DInSAR web tool for Earth surface deformation analysis through the ESA Geohazard Exploitation Platform”. The event originates in the context of space-borne geodetic techniques, and will focus on Differential Synthetic Aperture…
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Friday, 25 September 2015 10:58
New developments for the treatment of cancer with pulsed electric fields: awarded a young IREA researcher
During the "1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies", which was held in in Portoroz (Slovenia) from 5 to 10 September 2015, Dr. Stefania Romeo, a research fellow at IREA in Naples, received the second prize in the category Medicine…
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Thursday, 24 September 2015 14:21
Earthquake in Chile: the ground deformation measured by processing the data of European satellite Sentinel-1A
An earthquake of magnitude 8.3 struck the central region of Chile, 46 km west of the city of Illapel, at 22:54:33 (UTC) on September 16, 2015. The area is considered one of the regions at highest seismic risk in the world. The seismic activity in the region is caused by…
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Wednesday, 09 September 2015 08:17
Satellites and GPS to study the flow of magma beneath the Campi Flegrei
A new technique can calculate, through Satellites and GPS data, how the deep magma goes up inside the ground of Campi Flegrei, creating even millimeter deformations of the Earth's surface. A mechanism probably common to other calderas (Yellowstone in the US and Rabaul in Papua New Guinea). The study, published…
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Wednesday, 10 June 2015 10:32
A new frontier for land monitoring with the European satellite Sentinel-1A
Researchers at the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) have obtained a drastic improvement in mapping surface deformations thanks to data acquired by the year-old European satellite Sentinel-1A. The result, which opens new perspectives for earthquake and volcano monitoring, has been recently reported on the European Space Agency website.…
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Saturday, 16 May 2015 16:45
Nepal: the Earth shakes again
A new earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck the Nepal area on 12 May 2015 and it is the one that, among all the aftershocks, released the biggest energy after the main event of the last April 25th. Researchers at the Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the…
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 17:25
Nepal earthquake: the ground deformation measured from space
The radar acquisitions of the new generation satellite Sentinel-1A of the European Program Copernicus allowed us to analyze the ongoing seismic phenomena and the permanent effects of the ground movements caused by the violent earthquake of magnitude 7.8 that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015. The study has been conducted…
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Monday, 16 March 2015 16:29
Published the SCENIHR final opinion on the potential health effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields
As part of the activities that the European Commission plays in monitoring the potential effects of electromagnetic fields on health, IREA participates in the activities of SCENIHR (Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks). The researchers Maria Rosaria Scarfì and Olga Zeni, named "external experts" by the Commission,…
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Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:26
IREA among the local organizers of the International Space Apps Challenge
The fourth International Space Apps Challenge will take place all around the world on April 11 and 12, 2015. This is the largest worldwide Hackathon with thousands of participants in all continents who collaborate and work together over 48-hours to design innovative solutions for the most thrilling challenges that world is…
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