Roberto Sabia
ESA Ocean Remote Sensing Activities and Perspectives
Roberto Sabia
European Space Agency (ESA)
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Roberto Sabia was born in Napoli, Italy, in 1975.
He graduated cum laude in Environmental Sciences, curriculum in Oceanography, at Universitá Parthenope in Napoli, Italy (2002), and obtained the Ph.D. cum laude in Signal Theory and Communication at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain (2008), with a Thesis on the ocean salinity retrieval applied to the ESA Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. In 2006, he was visiting Ph.D. student at NOC, Southampton, UK.
From 2010 to 2013, he was an ESA post-doc Research Fellow at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.
In 2013, he was with Telespazio-UK Ltd. seconded at ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and since 2015 at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, with coordination responsibilities on several oceanographic projects.
In 2023, he has been appointed Earth Observation Ocean Scientist at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.
In 2008, he was the recipient of the best Ph.D. award in Remote Sensing of the European IEEE GRS Society.
In 2010, he has led a European COST Action proposal titled “SMOS Mission Oceanographic Data Exploitation (SMOS-MODE)”, successfully funded for the period 2011-2015.
In 2018 he obtained the APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ).
His research interests are within the ocean remote sensing and climate change domains - specifically on ocean salinity, carbon cycle and ocean acidification.
