Detection of ice on Mars or where we have found water on Mars.
Event details
| Date | 12.11.2015 |
| Hour | 17:00 › 18:00 |
| Speaker | Federico Cantini |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a geophysical method that uses radar pulses at frequencies to obtain echoes from dielectric discontinuities in the ground. In the Earth sciences, GPRs have been used for decades to study bedrock, soils, groundwater, and ice. Extensive survey of planetary bodies can be performed using GPRs from orbit probing the subdurface to detect geological structures and eventually the presence of ice or water. The first use of orbital GPR date back to 1972 with the Apollo Lunar Sounding Experiment (ALSE) aboard Apollo 17. No further orbital GPRs flown until the 2003 with the ESA's Mars Express carrying the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS), followed in 2005 by the SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The lack of consolidated processing methods and the presence of typical artifacts like ionosphere distortion and off-nadir return echoes clutter, make the data interpretation difficult.
The work in progress at eSpace is done in the framework of the iMars FP7 EU project with the main aim to provide to researchers who don't have background in planetary radars acces to MARSIS (and SHARAD) data, including the ability to visualize instrumets footprints in a GIS framework and explore data in 2D and 3D visualization tools.
Bio: Federico received a Bachelor degree in applied physics from University of Pisa (Italy) in 2002. Later worked at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) (Biomedical signal processing and cardiovarcular system modelling) and the San Piero a Grado Nuclear Research Group of the university of Pisa (Nuclear fuel behavior modelling). He worked on MARSIS data since 2012 at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Jacobs University Bremen and now at eSpace-EPFL.
The lack of consolidated processing methods and the presence of typical artifacts like ionosphere distortion and off-nadir return echoes clutter, make the data interpretation difficult.
The work in progress at eSpace is done in the framework of the iMars FP7 EU project with the main aim to provide to researchers who don't have background in planetary radars acces to MARSIS (and SHARAD) data, including the ability to visualize instrumets footprints in a GIS framework and explore data in 2D and 3D visualization tools.
Bio: Federico received a Bachelor degree in applied physics from University of Pisa (Italy) in 2002. Later worked at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) (Biomedical signal processing and cardiovarcular system modelling) and the San Piero a Grado Nuclear Research Group of the university of Pisa (Nuclear fuel behavior modelling). He worked on MARSIS data since 2012 at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Jacobs University Bremen and now at eSpace-EPFL.
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