Antonello Aiello Email & Phone Number

Bari, Apulia, Italy

Bari, Puglia, Italia

• Project management• Proposal writing in response to ITT by European Agencies• Multi- and hyperspectral image processing and analysis• GIS analysis• Algorithm design• Design and development of geo-services for the Rheticus portfolio• Technical support• Tutoring postgraduate students• Innovation & technical coach at the Hackathon Copernicus 2021, 2022

Bari, Puglia, Italia

• Project management• Proposal writing in response to ITT by European Agencies• Multi- and hyperspectral image processing and analysis• GIS analysis• Algorithm design• Design and development of geo-services for the Rheticus portfolio• Technical support• Innovation & technical coach at the Hackathon Copernicus 2020

Bari , Italia

• Developed a Sentinel-2 data processing chain for wildfire detection and fire severity classification, overcoming drawbacks of traditional field surveys;• Designed Rheticus® Wildfires: cloud-based subscription-based geo-information service for wildfire detection, fire severity classification, vegetation regrowth monitoring, illegal building detection with Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, MODIS/VIIRS products, and other open data sources, allowing end-users to achieve insightful and purpose-built contents from many different perspectives;• Designed Rheticus® Wildfires Smart M.App with Hexagon Geospatial solutions (M.App Enterprise), winning the Hexagon Geospatial M.Appathon 3.0;• Designed Rheticus® Aquaculture: cloud-based subscription-based geo-information service for the optimisation of harvesting and selling times; for monitoring environmental parameters and risk mitigation; and for the identification of new production sites;• Designed Rheticus® Aquaculture Smart M.App with Hexagon Geospatial solutions, winning the Hexagon Geospatial "Tell Us Your Smart M.App Story" Contest;• Designed Rheticus® Urban Dynamics: cloud-based service that enables users to achieve insightful and purpose-built contents in the field of smart cities, ranging from spatial planning to LULC change monitoring, from soil consumption and imperviousness assessment to UHI detection and urban sprawl.• Provided technical support for Rheticus® services;• Provided support for editing technical contents in English for various purposes (service specifications, proposals, websites, presentations, and so forth);• Innovation & technical coach at the Hackathon Copernicus 2019

Ispra

External Consultant for the European Commission (JRC - Disaster Risk Management Unit)• Provided support to the daily situational awareness carried out by the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC), issuing daily bulletins (ECHO Daily Flash) about natural disasters (floods, landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, big accidents) occurred worldwide within the last 24 hours;• Worked on the production of daily maps (ECHO Daily Maps) upon ERCC request, with aggregated information about natural events, population and infrastructure.

Bari , Italia

Scholarship Award Holder within the Apulia Space Training Project on Space Technologies (National Operational Programme for Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013)• Worked on the development of Sentinel-2 data processing chain for wildfire detection, resulting in a better quality of automatic burnt area extraction, fire severity assessment, and increased productivity; • Teamed up for the revision of the 2012 Italian Soil Sealing Map and the production of the 2015 Italian Soil Sealing Map, published by the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research of Italy;• Worked on the development of geo-analytics for an easy representation of soil sealing evolution as well as burnt area monitoring, preliminary prototypes of user's experience with Smart M.App and/or cloud-based geo-information services; • Attended vocationally-oriented courses in the fields of Space Technology and Applied Earth Observation by Remote Sensing.

Bari , Italia

Admitted to research within the framework agreements signed between the National Research Council of Italy and the University of Basilicata to promote scientific and technical networking.• Worked on the integration of Remote Sensing and GIS to assess shoreline variations, coastal dynamics, and soil erosion rates over large coastal river basins;• Provided help in editing national research projects;• Attended seminars in the field of Applied Earth Observation by Remote Sensing.

Potenza, Italia

Responsible for a 3-year research project in the fields of Geomatics and Coastal Morpho-Dynamics.• Analysed multiple geo-data sources to quantify coastal erosion over time, showing the impact of anthropogenic pressures on coastal dynamics;• Applied and compared soil erosion models through ancillary data and remotely-sensed images, providing a reliable prediction of prone areas to soil erosion in coastal basins, and quantifying the sediment deficit at the coast due to anthropogenic infrastructures;• Assessed the coastal vulnerability of the Ionian plain (Italy), highlighting the exposed areas to erosion that require a proper action plan;• Conducted seminars and helped to supervise graduates;• Achieved the title of Expert on Engineering Geology from the School of Engineering of the University of Basilicata;• Published papers in leading international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Coastal Science, Geology, Geography, and Applied Computer Science;• Presented work at national and international conferences in the fields of Geoscience, Applied Computer Science, GIS and Remote Sensing.

Ruvo Di Puglia

Responsible for providing CAD design services and support for building surveys.• Managed architectural design, structural drafting and urban planning with CAD software, resulting in a better quality of technical drafting and improved design productivity by 30%;• Edited reports concerning workers' behaviours/obligations and site requirements for safety and security on construction sites;• Edited bill of quantities;• Provided support for building surveys.

Molfetta

Responsible for providing CAD design services and support for building surveys.• Managed the architectural design of a care home in a time constraint with CAD software, meeting the deadline; • Improved the architectural design quality and productivity of some building blocks and various renovation projects;• Provided support for building surveys;• Improved customer database and managed relative relations, resulting in increase of credit recovery by 20%.

Vocationally-Oriented Master Course, Space Technologies For Remote Sensing

Attended vocationally-oriented courses in the field of Applied Earth Observation by Remote Sensing.

Doctor Of Philosophy Degree, Earth Sciences

Master Of Science'S Degree, Environmental Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

Some relevant details: • Worked on the use of satellite TIR data (Landsat and ASTER) for monitoring the spatial and temporal distribution.

Bachelor’S Degree, Civil Engineering, 105/110

Upper Secondary School Leaving Certificate, Building Construction Technology, 100/100