Michele Federico Iapaolo
He received the Degree in Environmental Engineering with maximum grade from the Università Tor Vergata di Roma in July 2002, with the thesis work "A Neural Network algorithm for the estimation of ozone profiles from satellite data".
In November 2002 he started the GeoInformation PhD programme at the Università Tor Vergata di Roma. His work focused on the retrieval of atmospheric parameters from remote sensing instruments, and in particular on the retrieval of ozone profiles from radiance measurements performed by instruments boarded on satellite platforms, like the GOME (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment), the nadir-viewing spectrometer boarded on the ESA (European Space Agency) ERS-2 satellite. In such a context, his studies have been addressed to the exploitation of neural networks techniques either to perform the retrievals or to face with the problem of the size reduction of the measurement vector. The work “Automatic Selection by Means of Neural Networks of GOME Optimum Spectral Channels for the Retrieval of Ozone Vertical Profiles" presented at the 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium received the First Prize in the GRS-S Student Prize Paper Competition.
From November 2004 and April 2005 he attended a six-month stage at IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) in Paris, working at a global validation of GOME retrieved ozone profiles with LIDAR measurements. This validation exercise has been pursued in the framework of the European project EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe), whose main objective is to build-up and develop a Grid technology infrastructure available to scientists 24 hours-a-day.
The validation work resulted in the publication of a scientific paper in cooperation with people responsible of the Network for Detection of Stratospheric Changes (NDSC), which consists of more than 70 high-quality, remote-sensing research stations for observing and understanding the physical and chemical state of the stratosphere and upper troposphere.
From November 2005 he is involved in a series of ESA projects in the context of the Image Information Mining. The activity aims at defining and implementing processing techniques for the automatic extraction of relevant information from Earth Observation satellite images, and driving such algorithms to operational environments.
Publications:
F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, S. Casadio, C. Zehner “On the estimation of ozone distributions with GOME and neural networks algorithms” Abstract book of Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing Symposium Valencia, Spain, September 16-20, 2002
F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, F. Rossi, S. Casadio
“Applicazioni di algoritmi neurali a misure di radianza da satellite per la stima di profili verticali di ozono” II Giornata di Studio su: Applicazione delle Reti Neurali nell’Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione Pavia, Italia, 26-27 Maggio 2003
M.F. Iapaolo
“Automatic Selection by Means of Neural Networks of GOME Optimum Spectral Channels for the Retrieval of Ozone Vertical Profiles” IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Toulouse, France, July 21-25, 2003 Winner of the First Prize in the 2003 GRS-S Student Prize Paper Competition
F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, F. Rossi, S.Casadio “Neural Networks Algorithms for the Retrieval of Ozone Vertical Profiles from Satellite Radiance Measurements” Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Remote Sensing Elba, Italy, September 15-18, 2003
F. Del Frate, M. F. Iapaolo, F. Rossi, S. Casadio “A connectionist approach for atmospheric ozone profiling with satellite radiance measurements” Atti della Fondazione Ronchi, vol. 59, pp. 61-67, 2004
G. Schiavon, F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, D. Solimini “Neural network inversion algorithms for satellite temperature and humidity profiling” Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Application Rome, Italy, February 24-27, 2004
F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, S. Casadio “Intercomparison between GOME ozone profiles retrieved by neural network inversion schemes and ILAS products” Quadrennial Ozone Symposium (QOS) 2004 Kos, Greece, June 1-8, 2004
S. Casadio, F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo “Estimating Ozone Vertical Distributions with GOME data and Neural Networks” 2004 ENVISAT / ERS Symposium Salzburg, Austria, September 6-10, 2004
F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, S. Casadio “A Neural Network Algorithm for the Retrieval of Temperature Profiles from GOME Radiance Measurements” 2004 ENVISAT / ERS Symposium Salzburg, Austria, September 6-10, 2004
F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, S. Casadio, S. Godin-Beekmann, M. Petitdidier “Neural networks for the dimensionality reduction of GOME measurement vector in the estimation of ozone profiles” Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer", vol. 92, pp. 275-291, 2005
F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, S. Casadio “Intercomparison between GOME Ozone Profiles Retrieved by Neural Network Inversion Schemes and ILAS Products” Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, vol. 22, pp. 1433-1440, 2005
G. Schiavon, F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, D. Solimini “Microwave radiometry and remote sensing applications: Neural Network inversion algorithms for satellite temperatures and humidity profiling” Atti della Fondazione Ronchi, vol. 60, pp. 97-98, 2005
M.F. Iapaolo, F. Del Frate, S. Casadio “Ozone profiles retrieval: Intercomparison between Neural Networks inversion and other estimation techniques” Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., March 26-29, 2006
F. Del Frate, M.F. Iapaolo, F. Rossi, S. Casadio, S. Godin-Beeckmann “On the selection of input measurements for neural network based retrieval algorithms”
Atmospheric Science Conference ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, 8-12 May, 2006
L. Fusco, J. Linford, C. Retscher, C. Boonne, S. Godin-Beekmann, M. Petitdidier, D. Weissenbach, W. Som de Cerff, J. Kraus, H. Schwichtenberg, F. Del Frate, M. Iapaolo
“Worldwide ozone distribution by using Grid infrastructure” IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'15) Paris, France, June 19-23, 2006
M.F. Iapaolo, S. Godin-Beekmann, F. Del Frate, S. Casadio, M. Petitdidier, I.S. McDermid, T. Leblanc, D. Swart, Y. Meijer, G. Hansen, K. Stebel “Gome Ozone Profiles Retrieved By Neural Network Techniques: A Global Validation With Lidar Mesurements” Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, vol. 107 n.1, pp. 105-119, 2007
C. Carlino, S. D'Elia, A. Della Vecchia, M. Iacovella, M. Iapaolo, C.M. Scalzo, F. Verdino On sharing EO concepts via ontology ESA-EUSC 2008 Image Information Mining: pursuing automation of geospatial intelligence for environment and security ESA / ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, March 4-6, 2008
