Rosa Lasaponara
Research Scientist
Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis of the National Research Council
IMAA-CNR
Italy
Biography
Rosa Lasaponara is a Researcher at the CNR-IMAA-(Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Institute for Environmental Monitoring) since 2001 where she is Chief of the ARGON Laboratory (Earth Observation for ARchaeoloGy and EnvirONment. Professor of microwave at the University of Basilicata since 2011.She has authored more than 250 publications among papers in international journals, books, book chapters, papers in proceedings of international conferences on: Remote Sensing for environmental monitoring, risk assessment, mitigation and modelling, time series analysis, Remote sensing for archaeology and environmental studies. She set up and currently chairs the special interest group " Remote Sensing for natural and cultural heritage" of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) in cooperation with and supported by UNESCO.
Research Interest
(i) Environment and risk monitoring (ii) Interactions between humans and environment systems (iii) Anthropology, land use practices and their effects on ecosystems (iv) Innovative active and passive remote-sensed technology (LIDAR, multi-and hyper-spectral high resolution) for landscape prospection and Historical and archaeological landscape.