NHAZCA co-funds a PhD scholarship in Physics

It has just been published the call for a PhD position in Physics (36th cycle) for a scholarship, co-funded by NHAZCA Srl with Regione Lazio, within the project “Analysis and calibration of infrared hyper-spectral satellite images” at Sapienza University of Rome.

Supervised by Professor Michele Ortolani, the project aims to develop mathematical and computer tools for the processing of hyper-spectral satellite data in the infrared collected by the Italian satellite PRISMA, launched in March 2019 by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and now in orbit, and since then operational for the transmission of data to the scientific community. The international peculiarity of PRISMA is its ability to generate hyper-cubes of data in which each pixel of the Earth’s image is associated with a real spectrum of 256 wavelength values included in the VNIR (Visible and Near-InfraRed) and SWIR (Short-Wave InfraRed) ranges. The information potentially contained in the hyper-cubes is definitely superior to that of the pan-chromatic images (i.e. collected without spectral filters) and also the multi-spectral ones (i.e. collected with a small number of different filters placed in front of the cameras) provided by satellites previously in orbit for Earth observation.

The project consists in the development and validation of specific algorithms for the application to hyper-spectral infrared images of the ground, in which are considered the peculiar row shapes of the vibrational modes of polar crystals that are at the origin of the infrared spectral lines of terrestrial minerals.

The deadline for submission of applications is mandatory March 29, 2021 at 2:00 pm (CET time).

More details about the application procedure are available at the following link.