PhD. Matteo Alparone

Sentinel-5P is the first mission of the European Union’s Copernicus Programme dedicated to monitoring the Earth's atmosphere. Launched in October 2017 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, it has now been in operation for more than 8 years and has set a new standard for Air Quality monitoring from space. The TROPOMI instrument onboard Sentinel-5P has provided key contributions to the extension of several atmospheric climate records, to global ozone monitoring, and was the first satellite to deliver daily global coverage for methane monitoring.

In this lecture, after a brief introduction to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Observation Programme and some basic concepts regarding ESA satellite operations, the main characteristics of Sentinel-5P will be presented, with a focus on calibration and validation activities managed in coordination with the Atmospheric Mission Performance Cluster, as well as on some applications of the measurements obtained by the TROPOMI instrument.

Biography:

Matteo Alparone received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2013 and 2016, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Technology and Engineering from Parthenope University of Naples, Italy, in 2021.

He is currently a Data Quality Management Consultant with the European Space Agency (ESA) at the ESRIN site (Frascati, Italy), where he supports the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor mission, overseeing product quality monitoring, anomaly investigation, and calibration/validation activities.

As a Hyperspectral Sounding Scientist Consultant at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), he worked on Level-2 processors for the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer – New Generation (IASI-NG), an instrument aboard the MetOp-SG-A satellite, which is scheduled to be launched in the coming months.

During his academic career, he mainly focused on inverse problems applied to remote sensing, with a particular emphasis on spatial resolution enhancement of microwave radiometers. He was a visiting Ph.D. student at the CommSensLab Excellence Research Unit – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), where he worked on the pre-development of the resolution enhancement algorithm for ESA’s Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) mission in collaboration with AIRBUS Defence and Space Madrid. As a Postdoctoral Researcher at Parthenope University, he was involved in several international projects, including activities under the ESA Dragon-5 Programme and a project in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) focused on retrieving sea surface wind speed using SAR measurements. He has published several journal papers and conference proceedings, and has served as a reviewer for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) and the International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS).

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