October 9, 2025

APSAR 2025: Best Paper Award (1st Prize) – Michelangelo Villano, Nertjana Ustalli, Vinicius Freitas de Almeida and Pau Prats-Iraola

Congratulations to Michelangelo Villano, Nertjana Ustalli, Vinicius Freitas de Almeida and Pau Prats-Iraola!

Their paper Cost-Effective Deformation Monitoring over Ultrawide Swaths Using Ambiguous Staggered SAR received the Best Paper Award (First Prize) at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR 2025) in Matsue, Japan.

Best Paper Award
Michelangelo Villano, October 9, 2025

It proposes a novel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) acquisition mode that enables the same satellite to monitor ground movements over an area up to twenty times larger than current acquisition modes, without noticeably compromising accuracy and without increasing the volume of data to be downlinked.

We are delighted for our colleagues and wish them continued success!