Giovanni Laneve
Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale
Sapienza Università di Roma
Giovanni Laneve (♂), is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where has a tenure in “Astronautical Systems for Observation and Surveillance”. Since 1987 he has been involved in the space activities of the Centro di Ricerca Progetto San Marco regarding satellite control and scientific data processing. The research activity is testified by more than 160 papers published on scientific journals or presented at national and international Conferences. His activity mainly has concerned the following topics: aeronomy, remote sensing (algorithms development, data exploitation, integration of remotely sensed data and ‘in situ' measurements, acquisition, and processing of satellite images), and orbit dynamics for remote sensing applications. In particular, the activity on the remote sensing applied to agriculture concerns involvement in field campaigns for the collection of spectral signatures of soils, vegetation soils, waters by using portable spectroradiometers (FieldSpec ASD, Ocean Optics), UAV equipped with multi-spectral sensor and other instruments (Li-COR LAI 2200, Dualex, Thermal camera). The field campaigns have been carried out in: Lake Victoria (Kenya) for monitoring floating vegetation and detecting invasive weeds (water hyacinth); Baringo lake (Kenya) for desertification studies; Green Basket agricultural area (Kenya) for acquiring spectral signature of different crop types. Maccarese agricultural area (Italy) for acquiring spectral signature of different crop types, at different growing state. Sardinia (Italy) for monitoring burned areas to develop a fire severity index. Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 images are presently used to carry out a study funded by ASI (Italian Space Agency) aiming at developing a processing chain devoted to improve and updated agricultural maps of the Central-East Africa. He has recently been the coordinator of the FP7 project PREFER and of the ODS3F European Civil Protection project.