The website of ERMES, the project coordinated by the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment and funded under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union, is from today active at http://www.ermes-fp7space.eu. The agricultural sector needs a sustainable approach both economically and environmentally. ERMES intends to give its instrumental…

A photometer of the 'AERONET' network, positioned at the Archaeological site of Grotte di Catullo in Sirmione on Lake Garda, was inaugurated last October 22. The sun photometer Cimel is a tool that helps to measure the values of the optical thickness of the atmosphere and, therefore, it can be…

Francescopaolo Sica, scholarship holder at IREA, was awarded the Best Student Paper Award of SPIE Remote Sensing Conference (Amsterdam, 22-25 Sept. 2014) in the area "SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques". The paper "Benefits of blind speckle decorrelation for InSAR processing", by F. Sica, L. Alparone, F. Argenti, G. Fornaro,…

The first public meeting of "La ricerca va a scuola" will be held at the CNR Research Area in Milano on November 12. It is a training path addressed to the world of education focused on the issues of a scientific research project conducted by the National Research Council, Space4Agri…

Again this year IREA participates in "Futuro Remoto", one of the most important and well-established European events for dissemination of the scientific and technological culture. The theme of this XXVIII edition, which includes as usual events, conferences, meetings with scientists, visits to scientific laboratories and museums, is "The Sea". IREA…