Dr. Manuela Bonano

Dr. Manuela Bonano received a Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Environmental Engineering from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2004 and a PhD in Infrastructure and Transportation from the University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy, in 2012. Since 2007, she has been carrying out her research activity in SAR interferometry at the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the Italian National Research Council, IREA-CNR (Italy), working on the development of advanced multi-pass interferometry algorithms aimed at monitoring surface displacements induced by natural and anthropic hazards, specifically in full-resolution DInSAR analyses for monitoring localised displacements at the scale of single buildings and infrastructure. In 2011 she was a Visiting Scientist with the Earth and Planetary Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), USA. Her recent activities are aimed at the development and implementation of innovative DInSAR techniques for automatically processing huge full-resolution DInSAR stacks acquired by X- and C-band sensors, such as COSMO-SkyMed and Sentinel-1, based on the exploitation of HPC capabilities or CC environments, as well as parallel programming techniques to deal with GPU and multi-core/multi-node tools. Dr. Manuela Bonano is involved in national and international scientific projects and initiatives for the effective exploitation of EO technologies as a support in environmental hazard management scenarios.