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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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Friday, 21 November 2014 11:09
Online the website of the project “ERMES: an Earth obseRvation Model based RicE information Service”
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…
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Friday, 21 November 2014 10:49
A new sun photometer on Lake Garda
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…
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Monday, 17 November 2014 14:12
SPIE Best Student Paper Awards to a young IREA scholarship holder
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,…
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Thursday, 06 November 2014 11:17
Series of meetings among IREA researchers and students on classic themes of a research project
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…
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Thursday, 16 October 2014 11:32
“Futuro Remoto” 2014
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…
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Tuesday, 14 October 2014 09:34
Prestigious award to a young IREA researcher
During the XX Italian Meeting on Electromagnetics held in Padova from September 15 to 18, dr. Rosa Scapaticci, research fellow at IREA, together with Martina Bevacqua Ph.D. student at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, was honored with the Barzilai Prize, a prestigious award assigned by SIEm (Italian Society of Electromagnetics) to…
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Monday, 21 July 2014 11:59
Online the Proceedings of the Third National Conference "Interaction between Electromagnetic Fields and Biosystems"
The Proceedings of the III National Conference "Interactions between Electromagnetic Fields and Biosystems", which was held in Napoli from 2 to 4 July 2014, are available on the website of ICEmB, the Interuniversity Center on Interaction between Electromagnetic Fields and Biosystems of which IREA is one of the Research Units.…
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Electric, magnetic and electromagnetic field levels monitoring in urban and working environment
The widespread, nationwide diffusion of sources of low (high voltage…