Paolo Gamba Was Born in Cremona, Italy, on April 5, 1965

Urban Area Extraction Exploiting Multi-Resolution SAR Data Fusion

Paolo Gamba, Full Professor, University of Pavia, Italy; Fellow, IEEE

This work is devoted to the presentation of a general framework for multi-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data fusion for the purpose of urban area extraction. Within this framework prerequisites for a reasonable analysis of SAR data from different sensors and spatial resolutions as well as the state of the art of fusion techniques are discussed. Furthermore, several fusion approaches on the pixel-, feature- and decision level are applied on multi-scale SAR data sets in a uniform experimental setup over four test sites: Sao Paulo (Brazil), Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai (People’s Republic of China). The accuracy of the resulting urban maps is assessed quantitatively via comparison against manually generated reference data sets. Furthermore, advantages and drawbacks of the applied fusion methods are evaluated.

Biography:

Paolo Gamba (SM’00, F’13) is Full Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Pavia, Italy, where he also leads the Telecommunications and Remote Sensing Laboratory. He received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering “cum laude” from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 1989, and the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the same University in 1993.

He is a Fellow of IEEE. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters from 2009 to 2013, and as Chair of the Data Fusion Committee of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society from October 2005 to May 2009. Currently, he is the Chair of the Chapters’ Committee of the same Society.

He has been the organizer and Technical Chair of the biennial GRSS/ISPRS Joint Workshops on “Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas” since 2001. He also served as Technical Co-Chair of the 2010 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2010, and Technical Co-Chair of the 2015 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, in Milan, Italy.

He has been the Guest Editor of special issues of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Remote Sensing Applications, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Information Fusion and Pattern Recognition Letters on the topics of Urban Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing for Disaster Management, Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing Applications.

He has been invited to give keynote lectures and tutorials in severaloccasions about urban remote sensing, data fusion, EO data and risk management. He published more than 130 papers in international peer-review journals and presented more than 250 research works in workshops and conferences.