SPECIAL SESSION #11

Maurizio Migliaccio

University of Naples Partenope, Italy

• maurizio.migliaccio@uniparthenope.it

Giuseppe Grieco

National Research Council

• giuseppe.grieco@cnr.it

Andrea Buono

University of Naples Partenope, Italy

• andrea.buono@uniparthenope.it

This Special Session is organised in the lovely memory of Dr. Giovanna Inserra, estimated researcher at the Istituto di Scienze Marine of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and formerly Bachelor, Master and PhD student at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, who prematurely left us in the end of 2025. She has been passionately and committed to scientific research on Earth observation using microwave sensors. Since her bachelor's thesis, Giovanna has promoted advancements in the use of satellite and airborne sensors together with physical modelling to support the observation of land/sea interactions in harsh coastal areas. In this context, Dr. Inserra has developed techniques and methodologies to study coastal processes as the air/sea/ice interaction in the cryosphere and accretion/erosion in critical and vulnerable areas, including in-land water bodies.

Hence, this Special Session welcomes original contributions in the field of environmental coastal monitoring by means of remote sensing instruments, advanced products and analysis tools, met-ocean models and smart in-situ sensors. This is to acknowledge and recognise the active and inspiring role played by Dr. Inserra, as a talented early-career scientist, in the oceanic engineering and geoscience and remote sensing community.

Maurizio Migliaccio was born in Napoli, Italy, in 1962. He received the Laurea degree (Hons.) in electronic engineering from the Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy, in 1987. He is currently Full Professor of Electromagnetics at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Napoli, Italy. He is an IEEE Fellow and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. His current scientific interests include remote sensing for marine and coastal applications, polarimetry, inverse problem for resolution enhancement, and reverberating chambers.

Giuseppe Grieco is at the Istituto di Scienze Marine of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche since May 2021. He got his master degree in “Scienze Nautiche – Indirizzo Oceanografico” from the Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope and his PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Università degli Studi della Basilicata. Since 2014, his main scientific interests are related to the estimation of the sea state and the wind field from active microwave sensors, namely Synthetic Aperture Radars (SARs), scatterometers and GNSS-Reflectometry. He carried out this activity at the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) and the Institute of Marine Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (ICM-CSIC), and now at ISMAR. In the past he was involved in scientific activities aimed at retrieving the thermodynamic state of the atmosphere and some minor and trace gases tropospheric concentration from hyper-spectral measurements such as those acquired by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) and similar instruments.

Andrea Buono was born in Naples, Italy, in 1984. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the Università di Napoli “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy, in 2010, 2013 and 2017, respectively. Since 2025, he has been Associate Professor with the Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope. He is an IEEE Senior Member and Associate Editor for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. His main research interests are related to applied electromagnetics, including microwave scattering models, radar polarimetry, multi-polarization synthetic aperture radar measurements for ocean and coastal applications, electromagnetic compatibility.