Researcher

National Research Council (CNR)

Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA)

Via G. Amendola, 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy

WEB pages

CNR: http://www.cnr.it/people/giuseppe.satalino

Author Identifier

Scopus AuthorID: 58104097800; ResearcherID (Web of Science): K-4482-2013; ORCID: 0000-0003-1566-5497.

Bibliometric H index (2022)

Scopus=23; Web of Science=21; Google Scholar=26.

Giuseppe Satalino received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Computer Science from the University of Bari, Italy, in 1991.

Career history

In 1991, he was a Summer Student at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, where he worked on a research concerning the application of neural networks to high energy physics. From 1993 to 1996 he was a grant-holder at the Alenia company and at National Research Council (CNR), Italy. Since 1996 he has been as a staff researcher with CNR, and since 2018 with the Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA-CNR).

Relevant experiences

He has been working in various international and national research projects concerning Earth Observation (EO) for land monitoring, mainly funded by the European and Italia Space Agencies, and by the H2020 European Union program. The main objectives of these projects, in which he covered responsibility positions, are the development of methods for the extraction of bio-geo-physical parameters from remote sensed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical images, to derive relevant spatial and temporal information on soil and vegetation for agricultural and hydrological applications. He has participated to various ground measurement campaigns of soil and crop vegetation parameters in agricultural areas (SMAPVEX’16-MB in Canada, SMAPEx-3’11 and SMAPEx-2’10 in Australia, COSMO-SkyMed’10-11 and AQUATER’04-09 in Italy (Foggia), AgriSAR’06 in Germany, ASAR’02-06 and ERS’97-00 in Italy (Matera)). Moreover, he serves as reviewer for some international journals of remote sensing, and he is author or co-author of more than 150 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.

Research activities

His research activities concern data classification techniques, statistical methods and model-based retrieval algorithms for the estimation of bio-geo-physical parameters over agricultural areas from multi-temporal and multi-frequency remote sensed SAR (L-, C- and X-band) and optical images. The obtained EO derived products are thematic maps of land cover/use, soil moisture, vegetation biomass/leaf area index maps, and tillage change maps. Related activities concern the software development for the processing of EO data and the product validation with ground measurements. Currently, his work is focusing on the use of new generation remote sensed images acquired with high spatial and temporal resolution (in particular Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2) and on the improvements of the retrieval accuracy of the EO derived parameters.

* Scopus Author ID: http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=7003809555

* WOS Researcher ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-4482-2013

* Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=5wPYZBoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

* ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1566-5497

* ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/G_Satalino/contributions?ev=prf_act

* CNR http://www.cnr.it/people/giuseppe.satalino