Activities
The Radar Imaging & Digital Earth (RIDE) Laboratory at the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano is intended to develop pioneering research on any aspect related to Radar imaging of the environment.
The RIDE group currently includes two full professors, three associate professors, three post-Doc researchers and several Ph.D. students.
Activities
Remote Sensing of the Earth by Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), including design of new concepts for spaceborne SAR systems, development of signal processing algorithm for data calibration and retrieval of geophysical parameters, scientific analysis of real data. The RIDE group is currently directly involved with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Earth Explorer Missions BIOMASS, launched on April 29th 2025, and Hydroterra+, currently in Phase-0.
UAV-based SAR: experimental activities at the RIDE Lab include the use of SAR sensors flown onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Several acquisition campaigns have been carried out to explore new acquisitions modes like distributed multi-static SAR and to develop new retrieval methodologies for vegetation, ice, and snow.
Automotive SAR: experimental activities using millimeter waves demonstrated the possibility for high and very high-resolution imagery of urban scenarios using inexpensive devices mounted on real vehicles.
Communication and Sensing, including re-use of communication devices for land characterization and infrastructure monitoring, development of dedicated high-resolution imaging techniques, and waveform design.
