* EU TD COST Action Big Data Era in Sky and Earth Observation (BIG-SKY-EARTH): vice-chair

• ACS VISTO [http://visto.acsys.it]: histopathology validation via content-based image retrieval - project management and technical leadership• ESA IIM-TS: satellite image time series data mining - system engineering, development lead, management assistance• ESA KEO: automatic feature extraction from satellite images - software engineering• ESA MDPS re-engineering: ground segment station acquisition/processing infrastructure - SW engineering• ESA KEI: KEO extensions - SW engineering, technical and scientific advisor• ACS DART: semi-automatic interpretation of very high resolution radar imagery in urban areas - technical lead, project management• ACS FIDE: assisted early melanoma diagnosis - project of the year Italian Ministry of Industry - SW engineering• ESA TIGER Wade: transient water body mapping in sub-saharan Africa - SW engineering• ASI COSMO-SkyMed: operational radar processing and quality control software - SW engineering• ASI / CONAE SIASGE X+L: data fusion and automatic classification - SW engineering• ACS LIVIA: image analysis for ophthalmologic applications

• ASI COHER - study, design, implementation and deployment of a fast coherence estimator for extended sets of level-0 images currently in operation as a data evaluation and access facility at the ESA Italian Processing and Archival Facility

• NASA/DLR/ASI Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission – design and implementation of elements of the ASI/Telespazio processor • ESA project on the handling of the expected performance degradation of the ERS-2 satellite on-board gyros• Rapid land cover / microwave signal dumping maps from satellite radar sensor data.

• “Probabilistic image analysis” laboratory and “Image analysis in biomedical research” lecturer at the “Biomedical imagery processing and analysis” master courses

• ESA Knowledge-driven Information Mining (KIM): investigation of the use of application-independent image content descriptors as indices for classification and support to query formulation towards large EO image archives – with ETH Zurich, Switzerland and ACS Rome• DLR TERRASAR-X data mining ground segment branch preparation - Python/C++ object oriented design and operational implementation of high resolution information extraction algorithms• ESA KIM-V Knowledge-driven Information Mining Validation: large-scale validation of classification and content-based retrieval of EO images both with respect to user groups and to quantitative evaluations