A major milestone has been reached by RIME (Radar for Icy Moon Exploration), the radar sounder aboard ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer) mission: its first focused radargram has been successfully generated. This achievement confirms that RIME is functioning as expected, delivering high-quality radar data — a key step forward in preparing the instrument for [...]| RSLab
On May 5–6, 2025, the RIME (Radar for Icy Moons Exploration) Science Team gathered to review progress and plan next steps for the radar instrument aboard ESA’s JUICE mission. The meeting highlighted recent scientific and operational developments, including the successful activities carried out during the Lunar-Earth Gravity Assist—a key milestone that tested RIME’s systems and [...]| RSLab
On April 17, Raktim Ghosh has succesfully defended cum laude his PhD Thesis on “Novel Architectures for Radar Sounder Signals Segmentation: From Convolutional Neural Networks to Quantum-enhanced Networks”. Congratulations to Raktim! …| RSLab
Khatereh Meshkini received the 2024 “Frank Marzano” award for the Best Italian PhD Theses on Geoscience and Remote Sensing by the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. The award was presented to the best three PhD Theses defended in the period June 2023 - May 2024. The title of the PhD [...]| RSLab
The HRLC CCI studies and investigates the role of the spatial resolution of land cover and land cover change in supporting climate modelling research at regional scale in key climatic areas in Africa, South America and Siberia. During Phase 1 of the programme, the Consortium generated and validate land cover maps and land cover change [...]| RSLab
The 2024 was a very dense and exciting year at RSLab UniTrento with different activities on both Earth Observation and Planetary Exploration. RSLab has the leadership of important projects (e.g., the radar for icy moon exploration (RIME) currently in the…| RSLab
Lorenzo Bruzzone has been recognized for the third consecutive year as a Highly Cited Researher by Clarivariate for 2024. Each year, Clarivate identifies the world’s most influential researchers - the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2024, fewer than 7,000, or about 0.1%, of the [...]| RSLab
During the first in history gravity assist flyby of the Earth-Moon system, which took place successfully between August 19 and 20, the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) was activated and performed a wide range of tests. During the lunar…| RSLab
Europa Clipper mission has launched on October 14th, 2024, toward the Jupiter moon Europa. RSLab is part of the team of REASON (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface), which is one of the main instruments on-board Europa Clipper. REASON is designed for probing Europa’s icy shell for the moon’s suspected ocean [...]| RSLab
Congratulations to Milena Atanasova for receiving the Best Poster Awards at IEE GRSS IADF Summer School.| RSLab
On July 25, Daniel Carcereri has succesfully defended cum laude his PhD Thesis on "A Deep Learning Study on the Retrieval of Forest Parameters from Spaceborne Earth Observation Sensors". Congratulations to Daniel!| RSLab
On July 23, Giulio Weikmann succesfully defended cum laude his PhD Thesis on “Deep Learning Approaches to the Analysis of Remote Sensing Image Time Series”. Congratulations to Giulio! !| RSLab
A long interview has been published on the podcast "Reflessi di Scienza" relating to space research developed at RSLab on planetary exploration and Earth observation. The interview also addresses impact of this research on the society and on climate change. The podcast (in italian) is available here.| RSLab
