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SUMMARY:Detection of ice on Mars or where we have found water on Mars. 
DTSTART:20151112T170000
DTEND:20151112T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T200808Z
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DESCRIPTION:Federico Cantini\nGround-penetrating radar (GPR) is a geophysi
 cal method that uses radar pulses at frequencies to obtain echoes from die
 lectric discontinuities in the ground.  In the Earth sciences\, GPRs have
  been used for decades to study bedrock\, soils\, groundwater\, and ice. E
 xtensive 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 furt
 her orbital GPRs flown until the 2003  with the ESA's Mars Express carryi
 ng the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS)
 \, followed in 2005 by the SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) aboard NASA's Mars Recon
 naissance Orbiter.\nThe lack of consolidated processing methods and the pr
 esence of typical artifacts like ionosphere distortion and off-nadir retur
 n echoes clutter\, make the data interpretation difficult.\nThe work in pr
 ogress 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 plane
 tary radars acces to MARSIS (and SHARAD) data\, including the ability to v
 isualize instrumets footprints in a GIS framework and explore data in 2D a
 nd 3D visualization tools.\nBio: 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 Res
 earch Group of the university of Pisa (Nuclear fuel behavior modelling). H
 e worked on MARSIS data since 2012 at the Italian National Institute for A
 strophysics (INAF)\, Jacobs University Bremen and now at eSpace-EPFL.
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