Dr. Michelangelo Villano from the Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR) is one of the laureates of the European Research Council (ERC)'s 2022 Starting Grants competition. ERC grants are awarded on the sole criterion of peer-reviewed excellence to high-risk, high-reward proposals that may revolutionise science and potentially lead to innovation.
The funded project is entitled “Distributed Radar Interferometry and Tomography Using Clusters of Smallsats (DRITUCS)” and aim at developing cost-effective Earth observation concepts for frequent monitoring of ice volume and forest structure changes and demonstrate them using swarms of drones.
