Marco Restano

Marco Restano received the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in radar remote sensing from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He performed research activities oriented to Mars exploration with ESA/MEX MARSIS and NASA/MRO SHARAD ground penetrating radars, which included the study of wave scattering and propagation into ionospheric and stratified mediums. In 2015, he led an Italian–American effort together with NASA/JPL, Smithsonian Institution, and Southwest Research Institute to evaluate the effects of the passage of Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) observed by the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. In 2016, he developed an alternative processor for the compensation of ionospheric effects in MARSIS signals. He joined the Altimetry Team at the European Space Agency Earth Observation Centre in Frascati, near Rome, in 2015. He deals with altimetry processing algorithms development for the exploitation of CryoSat-2, Sentinel-3, and Sentinel-6 SAR altimetry missions and their application to Earth System Science supports many ESA Research and Development contracts in the “Earth Observation for Society” Program and in the ESA “Climate Change Initiative,” gave many lectures to teach radar altimetry and is the coauthor of many publications.