RESEARCH

RESEARCH. In 2020 Prof. Marzano was inserted in the World's Top 2% Scientists database of Stanford University (USA). Current research of Dr. Marzano concerns passive and active remote sensing of the atmosphere from ground-based, airborne, and space-borne platforms, with a particular focus on clouds and precipitation using microwave, millimeter-wave and visible-infrared data, development of inversion methods, radiative transfer modeling of absorbing and scattering media, radar meteorology for rain, wind and ash retrieval and synthetic aperture radar data processing for atmospheric and land-use applications. He is also deeply involved in electromagnetic propagation studies, including e.m. field scintillation and rain fading modeling, data analysis along satellite microwave and millimeter-wave links and free space optical links.

The research is coordinated within the Laboratory of Antennas, Radiopropagation and Telesensing (LabART) of DIET and is organized in:

  1. Laboratory of Radio Meteorology (LabRadioMet)

  2. Laboratory of Earth Observation (LabEarthObs)

  3. Laboratory of AlphaSat satellite (LabAlphaSat)

Major research fields are:

  • Satellite remote sensing of the environment (rain, temperature, water vapor, humidity, cloud liquid, ash)

  • Remote sensing sensors (weather radar, wind profiler radar, microwave radiometer, infrared radiometer)

  • Radar remote sensing of the atmosphere (rain, wind velocity, ash, spatial-temporal fields, polarimetry)

  • Electromagnetic wave propagation (turbulence, clouds and precipitation, microwave, millimeter-wave)

  • Inverse problems in remote sensing (statistical techniques, neural-network methods, physical methods)

  • Radio-propagation for satellite telecommunications (rain fading, scintillation, prediction model, noise)

  • Optical propagation in free space (turbulence, fog, aerosol, precipitation, channel modeling)


List of publications on G-Scholar

List of publications on SCOPUS

List of FSM publications on ORCID

The research activity is carried out at:

DIET - Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Sapienza Università di Roma - Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, IT

CRAS - Centro di Ricerca Aerospaziale Sapienza - Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, IT

CETEMPS - Centro di Eccellenza in Telerilevamento E Modellistica Previsionale di eventi meteo Severi, Università dell’Aquila - Via Vetoio, 67010 L’Aquila, IT


Collaborations are foreseen, depending on the research project, with:

  • Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, IT

  • Politecnico di Milano, IT

  • Università di Firenze, IT

  • Universitè de Geneve, Geneva, CH

  • University of Auvergne Clermont, Clermont-Ferrand, FR

  • University of Helsinki, FL

  • Technical University of Graz, Graz, AT

  • INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia), Roma/Catania, IT

  • CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) - ISAC, IMAA, ISMAR & IIET

  • European Space Agency (ESA) - ESTEC, Nordwijk, NL

  • European Space Agency (ESA) - ESOC, Darmstadt, D

  • Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Rome, IT

  • Agenzia di Protezione Civile Abruzzo, L'Aquila, IT

  • Agenzia di Protezione Civile Lazio, Roma, IT

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA CalTech, Pasedena (CA, USA)

  • Thales Alenia Space Italy, Roma, IT

  • Leonardo, Rome, Italy

  • HIMET, L'Aquila, IT

  • ELDES, Firenze, IT

  • Micro&Systems, Pomezia (RM), IT

  • Progressive Systems, Frascati (RM), IT

  • TerraDue, Roma, IT



RESEARCH PROJECTS. Main funded national and international projects, accomplished so far or on going, are:

  • CNR-Estremi 2000-2001

  • FP5-EuRainSat 2001-2003

  • MURST-CETEMPS 2001-2004

  • ASI-Mare 2001-2002

  • ASI-MeditRain 2002-2004

  • CNR-RAMI 2003-2004

  • IntReg-RiskAWARE 2004-2006

  • CIMA-Proscenio 2005-2007

  • ASI-WAVE 2006-2006

  • DPC-IDRA 2006-2009

  • RegAbruzzo-PC 2007-2015

  • MIUR-Aeroclouds 2005-2008

  • ASI-FloRad 2007-2008

  • Sapienza- XCen 2007-2007

  • ASI-Nowcasting 2008-2011

  • Sapienza-Xcen2 2009-2009

  • FP7-HydroRad 2009-2011

  • DPC-IDRA2 2009-2012

  • FP7-HydrEx 2010-2012

  • Sapienza-SARWat 2011-2011

  • EOARD-HiRadProp 2012-2015

  • FP7-FUTUREVOLC 2012-2015

  • IPA-ADRIARadNet 2012-2015

  • FP7-APHORISM 2013-2016.

  • Sapienza- TexTILEs 2014-2015

  • ESA-RadioMetOP 2013-2014

  • FP7-Earth2Observe 2014-2017

  • RegAbruzzo-PC 2016-2018

  • Sapienza-AlphaSAP 2015-2017

  • ESA-RadioMetOP2 2015-2016

  • MCurie-HYDREX 2015-2017

  • IPA-CapRadNet 2016-2016

  • EOARD-HiMetCom 2016-2020

  • ESA-STEAM 2017-2019

  • Sapienza-UVScat 2018-2020

  • ITHR-AdriaMORE 2018-2019

  • ESA-MeKaP 2018-2023

  • H2020-EUROVOLC 2018-2021

  • RegLazio-SEMIA 2018-2020

  • PNR-RAFAEL 2018-2021

  • Eumetsat APPLES 2018-2019

  • Eumetsat GAMES 2018-2020

  • ESA-WRad 2018-2022

  • Sapienza-KydroSAR 2019-2022

  • RegAbruzzo-CFA 2019-2022

  • RegLazio-ClimArt 2019-2022

  • Sapienza-SolRad89 2020-2023

  • RMarche-STREAM 2021-2023

  • ESA-RadioSatMet 2021-2023

  • ESA-TASI-CIMR 2021-2024

  • ASI-SMIVIA 2021-2023

  • ESOC-BepiColombo 2021-2023

  • ESOC-SpaceRider 2022-2022

  • EOARD-MMWAP 2021-2024