Guido D'Urso

Guido D'Urso was born in Salerno, Italy, in 1961. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Agricultural University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. He is a Full Professor of agricultural hydraulics, irrigation management and remote sensing at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’. He is a Civil Engineer at the University of Naples. He has coordinated several international research projects in the field of remote sensing for water management, as documented by more than 80 publications on scientific journal, congress proceedings, and specialized books. His research activities are focused on three main areas: development of Earth Observation interpretation techniques for water management and land surface processes, distributed agro-hydrological models for water management and irrigation, and in-situ and remote active microwave sensing of soil water content. Among other activities, he has been Chair of the International Symposium “Remote Sensing Europe”, International Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), in 2007–2008, Chair of the Working Group of International Commercial Agricultural Engineering (CIGR) on Earth Observation for Land and Water Engineering, and Representative of Italian Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Steering Committee for the International Project FAO-ITALY “Information Products for Nile Basin Water Resources Management”.