A Validation Procedure for a NWP-based Radar Signal Simulator

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REPORT SULLE ATTIVITÀ SVOLTE

REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN

Corso di dottorato / PhD Program __INGEGNERIA DELL’INFORMAZIONE____________________

Curriculum (se previsto / if applicable) _______________________________

Cognome / Family Name BARCAROLI

Nome / Name ELISA

Data nascita / Date of Birth 22/08/1989

Luogo nascita / Place of Birth Florence

Supervisore / Supervisor Prof. L. Facheris, F. Cuccoli and F. Berizzi

ATTIVITÀ FORMATIVE / FORMATIVE ACTIVITIES

I anno di corso / I course year (anno accademico / academic year ________2014/2015________) DENOMINAZIONE DEL CORSO / NAME OF THE COURSE DURATA / DURATION (in ore / in hours) SEDE / LOCATION (indicare Università o altra sede di svolgimento / indicate the university or other course location) DOCENTE / PROFESSOR (nome e cognome / name and family name) VOTAZIONE / FINAL MARK GIUDIZIO / EVALUATIO N LINGUA UTILIZZATA (italiano, inglese, altra lingua / Italian, English or other languages) Corsi del dottorato

frequentati/ Doctorate courses attended

English for writing and presenting scientific papers 20 Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione (PISA)

A.Wallwork PASS English

Probabilità, statistica e processi stocastici 24 Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione (PISA)

F.Flandoli PASS Italian

Network Science 20

Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione

(PISA)

G.Neglia PASS English

Altri corsi/ Other courses Energy efficient wireless communications 12 Università di Ingegneria (Firenze)

S.Morosi PASS Italian

Seminari di ricerca/Research seminars

(argomento e ore di svolgimento /

Frauhnofer (FHR) seminars held during the “7th International Summer school on Radar/SAR” 1. Radar Fundamentals (Dr.M.Weiss - 3h)

2. Remote Sensing and Polarimetry (Dr.P.Rosen - 3h) 3. SAR Fundamentals (Prof.P.Lombardo - 3h) 4. THz Imaging (Prof.N.Pohl - 3h)

2 topic and number

of hours carried out)

5. SAR Moving Target Indication (Dr.C.Gierull - 3h)

6. Antennas and special Front-End aspects (Prof.D.Heberling - 3h) 7. SAR Interferometry (Dr.G.Fornaro - 3h)

8. MIMO Radar & Waveform design (Prof.Hugh Griffiths - 3h) 9. Workshop on Polarimetric SAR (Dr.Andreas Danklmayer - 3h)

II anno di corso / II course year (anno accademico / academic year _____2015/2016___________) DENOMINAZIONE DEL CORSO / NAME OF THE COURSE DURATA / DURATION (in ore / in hours) SEDE / LOCATION (indicare Università o altra sede di svolgimento / indicate the university or other course location) DOCENTE / PROFESSOR (nome e cognome / name and family name) VOTAZIONE / FINAL MARK GIUDIZIO / EVALUATION LINGUA UTILIZZATA (italiano, inglese, altra lingua / Italian, English or other languages) Corsi del Dottorato

frequentati/ Doctorate Courses Attended

Game theory and optimization in communication and networking 16 Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione (PISA) M.Luise,

L.Sanguinetti PASS Italian

Altri corsi/ Other

Courses Computational methods in electromagnetics 16 Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO – United States)

V.Chandrasekar PASS English

Seminari di ricerca/Research Seminars

(argomento e ore di svolgimento / topic and number of hours carried out)

Colorado State University seminars:

1. Simplified Integrated profiling system – FMCW Radar Precipitation Profiler (Prof. Zhendong Yao - 2h) 2. Hydroclass of drops (Dr. Renzo Bechini – 2h )

3. Ka-band cloud radar in CUIT and its cloud observation (Prof. Xuehua Li -2h)

4. Costal storm flooding forecast: coupling fluvial and oceanic drivers for San Francisco bay

(E

ng. Jungho Kim – 2h) PERIODO DI SVOLGIMENTO (da ___ a ____ / a ___ to ___) ENTE OSPITANTE

(nome, luogo ed eventuale supervisore / name, location

and subsequent supervisor)

ATTIVITÀ SVOLTE E RISULTATI ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT AND RESULTS Esperienze di

ricerca presso altre strutture / Research experience in other institutions From April to September 2016 (6 months) CSU

(Colorado State University), Fort Collins (CO),

United States Supervisor: V. Chandrasekar

I've taken part of the course Advanced Topics in Electromagnetics, known in the CSU system as ECE 742, where I learnt computational techniques for solving differential and integral equations that govern static, frequency-domain, and time-domain electromagnetic field phenomena for atmospheric radar problems. I developed the first method and part of the fourth approach of the validation chain (proposed in my Thesis), thanks to the support of all the Prof. Chandrasekar team and the possibility to get real data acquired with the CSU-CHILL radar.

3 III anno di corso / III course year (anno accademico / academic year ____2016/2017____________)

DENOMINAZIONE DEL CORSO / NAME OF THE COURSE DURATA / DURATION (in ore / in hours) SEDE / LOCATION (indicare Università o altra sede di svolgimento / indicate the university or other course location) DOCENTE / PROFESSOR (nome e cognome / name and family name) VOTAZIONE / FINAL MARK GIUDIZIO / EVALUATION LINGUA UTILIZZATA (italiano, inglese, altra lingua / Italian, English or other languages) Corsi del Dottorato

frequentati/ Doctorate Courses Attended Mathematical Modeling issues in the future multiservice networks 20 Dipartimento Ingegneria dell’Informazione (PISA) K.Samouylov,

Y.Gaidamaka PASS English

Nanoscale Biohybrid Engineering 20 Università di Ingegneria (PISA)

G.Ciardelli PASS Italian

TITOLO DELLA TESI / TITLE OF THE PHD THESIS

A Validation Procedure for a NWP-Based Radar Signal Simulator

PROGETTO DI RICERCA/RESEARCH PROJECT (descrivere sinteticamente / please provide a short

description)

My PhD program has been focused on the creation of a validation procedure for any Numerical Weather Prediction-based radar signal simulator. A simulator of weather radar signals can be exploited as useful reference for many applications, such as weather forecasting and now-casting models or training for aircraft trajectory optimization to reduce flight hazard. However, before being used, it must be examined in different extreme conditions, in order to evaluate the consistency of the outputs produced. In my Thesis, a novel validation procedure is presented. The goal of this work is to provide reliable references and

objective thresholds to assess the simulator tasks without using qualitative methods, usually implied for this scope. To create a multi-steps chain that could assess the capabilities of the simulator to manage each kind of possible inputs: from theoretical data to real acquisitions, the simulator behavior has been studied in different conditions. The procedure is composed by four different approaches, providing each time a connection between meteorological inputs and the simulated radar observables. The techniques proposed can be theoretically applied to any kind of NWP-based simulator but in this context, have been modeled on POWERS architecture. POWERS is a Polarimetric Weather Radar Simulator developed by Stefano Lischi into the framework of the Cleansky EU program (KLEAN and X-Wald projects) by the RaSS (Radar Surveillance System) Laboratory. POWERS aimed at pointing out the remarkable benefits that polarimetry could bring to the new generation of avionic weather radar systems with important impact on flight safety and

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CONVEGNI, WORKSHOP E SEMINARI IN ITALIA E ALL’ESTERO/ CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS,

SEMINARSATTENDED IN ITALY AND ABROAD (indicare denominazione, sede, data e se la

partecipazione ha previsto anche la presentazione di un contributo / please provide the name, the

location, the date and whether the participation included also the presentation of a contribution)

University of Florence – During the academic years 2015/2016 I held 6 hours of seminars concerning “The radar signal processing and detection of different kind of targets”.

The same happened during the academic year of 2016/2017 for a duration of 12 hours.

EVENTUALE ATTIVITÀ DI RICERCA IN AZIENDA / SUBSEQUENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN

COMPANIES (indicare denominazione, ente ospitante, periodo e luogo di svolgimento, eventuale

supervisore aziendale, attività svolte e risultati / please indicate the name, the hosting institution,

the period and duration of the activity, the subsequent company supervisor, activities carried out

and results)

From February to August 2017 (6 months) I have been working for the Thales S.p.A company (Sesto Fiorentino, FI). My Thales tutor was Eng. Filippo Gallo and the Academic tutor the Prof. Luca Facheris. My six months internship has had as aim to become confident with the management process and integration of the telecommunication system applied to the Transportation field.

In particular, the focus has been put on the requirements management and on the validation process of the solution proposed. Even if in a different context, I had to think about different methods to assess the good performances of the designed solution with respect to the customer requirements. For my PhD thesis I had to validate a software beyond the state of the art, finding in the literature the proper references. During this internship, I had to face with the industry constrains regarding the validation process of devices, and integrated systems, already in use.

While in the Research the validation depends a lot on the field of application, the Industry validation process is standardized and follows given steps, regardless the company scope of work. The designed solution need to be tested from the smallest component (FAT: Factory acceptance test), passing through to the integrated system partially recreated in a test platform (IFAT: Integrated Factory Acceptance Test), to finally accomplish the installation checks (SAT: Site acceptance test) and verify the integrated system on site (SIT: Site Integrated tests).

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PUBBLICAZIONI (N.B. depositate in ARPI) / PUBLICATIONS (Note: Publications must be stored in

ARPI

TIPOLOGIA PUBBLICAZIONE (articolo, proceeding, monografia, edizione fonti…) TYPOLOGY (article, proceeding, monography, source edition…) ALTRI AUTORI COAUTHORS TITOLO DELLA PUBBLICAZIONE TITLE ESTREMI DELLA PUBBLICAZIONE (rivista, editore, convegno, altro) PUBLICATION DETAILS

(journal title, publishing company, conference title

and so on) ISSN/ISBN article A.Lupidi, F.Cuccoli, L.Facheris, L.Berizzi Analysis of X-Band Weather Polarimetric

Radar Simulator for avionic Purposes

16th _{International} Radar Symposium (IRS)

2155-5753

article A.Lupidi, F.Cuccoli, L.Baldini, L.Facheris X-Band Avionic Weather Simulator: outputs testing and

analysis European Radar Conference (EuRAD)

978-2-

8748-7041-5

article F. Cuccoli, L. Baldini, A. Lupidi, P. Bernabò, L. Facheris L. Baldini Exploiting dual-polarization technique

in weather radar for civil aircrafts to mitigate risk in adverse

conditions

URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference (URSI AT-RASC)

978-9-

0900-8628-6

article A.Lupidi, F.Cuccoli, L.Facheris, S. Lischi Output consistency analysis of the polarimetric weather radar simulator through real

weather events

17th _{International} Radar Symposium (IRS)

978-1-

5090-2518-3

article N.Roberto, L.Baldini, E.Adirosi, S.Lischi, A.Lupidi, F.Cuccoli, E.Barcaroli, L.Facheris

Test and validation of particle classification

based on meteorological model and weather simulator

European Radar Conference (EuRAD)

978-2-

8748-7045-3

article A. Lupidi, F. Cuccoli, L. Facheris Polarimetric weather radar simulator: Preliminary validation in rain

case

IEEE Radar Conference (RADAR)

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PUBBLICAZIONI (in corso di pubblicazione) / PUBLICATIONS (submitted but not yet published)

TIPOLOGIA PUBBLICAZIONE (articolo, proceeding, monografia, edizione fonti…) TYPOLOGY: ( article, proceeding, monography, source edition…) ALTRI AUTORI / COAUTHORS TITOLO DELLA PUBBLICAZIONE TITLE

ESTREMI DELLA PUBBLICAZIONE (rivista, editore, convegno, altro)

PUBLICATION DETAILS (journal title, publishing company,

conference title and so on)

article E. Barcaroli, A. Lupidi, F. Cuccoli, L. Facheris, H. Chen and V. Chandrasekar A Validation Procedure for a Polarimetric Weather Radar Signal

Simulator

IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing