Seminar on June 15, 2021

Title

The case study of GEO-K, a University spin-off for Remote Sensing applications

Speaker

Prof. Fabio del Frate, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

When and Where

June 15, 2021, 16:00-18:00
Engineering Teaching Building, room B15

Abstract

Founded in April 2006, GEO-K is the earliest spin-off company from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. The mission of GEO-K is to conduct R&D activities and to provide GEO-information consulting, services and products using Knowledge-based techniques in the field of image processing and of microwave, optical and hyperspectral remote sensing.

Short Bio

Fabio Del Frate is Associate Professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” where he teaches courses of Remote Sensing and Applied Electromagnetism. He is, or has been, principal investigator/project manager in several European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian Space Agency (ASI) funded research projects, author of more than 200 international scientific publications with a special focus on feature extraction algorithms from Earth Observation data using neural networks. He has been a GEO-K co-founder and now he is the President of the company.