Michele Manunta

Michele Manunta was born in Cagliari, Italy, in 1975. He received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in informatics and electronic engineering from the University of Cagliari, Cagliari, in 2001 and 2009, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente (IREA)-Italian National Research Council (CNR), Naples, Italy, where he is a Researcher. He was a Visiting Scientific with the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain, in 2004, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA, in 2006. He has been contributing to various national and international initiatives for the exploitation of satellite technologies and, in particular, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) techniques. He has been coordinating the satellite component of the EPOS research infrastructure, where he holds the role of TCS Satellite Data Director. His research interests are in the field of high-resolution SAR and differential interferometric SAR (DInSAR) data processing and application. He particularly works on developing SAR/DInSAR algorithms and techniques for studying deformation affecting terrain surface and man-made structures. More recently, his research interests concern cloud and GRID computing exploitation for SAR interferometry applications.