Experience

Aresys

• Italy
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Earth Observation Business Unit manager

  • Jan 2010 - Present

• ESA Earth Explorer BIOMASS

  • Jan 2010 - Present

  2017: Project manager of the L2 GPP implementation study.Phase A, B1: Responsible of the definition of requirements and algorithms of the L1 SAR processor in the industrial team led by OHB.2015-16 Participation to the external calibration study led by University of Sheffield.Role: Project manager – coordination of the internal team of 3 engineers.

• SAOCOM-1A/1B

  • Oct 2007 - Present

  Design and performance estimation of the SAR modes for the Argentinean L-band Earth-Observation satellite SAOCOM. Study and prototyping of an outdoor test technique, including realization of the prototype, outdoor campaign execution and campaign data processing. Customer: Argentinean Space Agency (CONAE), Buenos Aires.

• Copernicus HPCM ROSE-L SAR performances and simulation

  • Mar 2018 - Oct 2022

• Copernicus Sentinel-1A /-1B Mission Performance Centre

  • Jan 2012 - Oct 2022

  Expert Support Laboratory within the Sentinel-1 Mission Performance Centre for L0 data quality, long term calibration monitoring, assessment of the impacts of the instrument performance on data quality.

• SAOCOM-Companion Phase A-B1 Bistatic SAR simulation and performance estimation.

  • May 2015 - Sep 2017

  Development of and End-to-End SAR simulator for SAOCOM Companion System Requirements consolidation and performance assessment.Prime contractor in a team with 2 Scientific and 2 Industrial partners.Customer: ESA-ESTEC

• Sentinel-1 Commissioning Phase team

  • Mar 2014 - Sep 2016

  Support the work of ESA during the Sentinel-1 Commissioning Phase by providing expert support and instrument data quality and calibration monitoring.

• Sentinel-1 SAR modes design and performance

  • May 2005 - Apr 2016

  Work in the industrial team lead by EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to define the optimized SAR instrument configuration.

• GeoSTARe study

  • Jan 2013 - Oct 2014

  feasibility study for a SAR sensor hosted by ageosynchronous satellite. Development of the performance models and preliminarytrade-offs.Sub-contractor in the European team led by SES ASTRA, Luxembourg

• ESA Earth Explorer CoReH2O End to End Simulator

  • Sep 2010 - Sep 2012

  Design, development and validation of the mission simulator (in C++) for the CoReH2O Earth Explorer mission performance evaluation.Role: Project manager.Prime contractor in the European team made by 5 companies.

• ENVISAT ASAR Quality Working Group

  • May 2005 - Nov 2011

  Work in the Quality Working Group team with ESA ESRIN to support data quality monitoring, SAR performance and anomaly investigation.

• Ground based Radar Interferometry

  • Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

  Development of Matlab software for the processing of ground-based radar in X and Ku bands.Analist and software developer, definition and execution of outdoor campaigns on dams, open-pit mines. Report and discussions with the customer.