Valerio Poggiali
Ph.D., Univ. of Rome La Sapienza (2016)
CV
vpoggiali@astro.cornell.edu

Valerio is a radar scientist with more than 10 years’ experience in the analysis of both monostatic and bistatic radar data from multiple planetary surfaces. He is particularly interested in the analysis of Cassini’s radar data relative to Saturn’s moon Titan, in order to determine its surface characteristics via modeling altimetry echoes, SAR backscatter and bistatic spectra.
After having worked for estimating equatorial dunes’ height, recently Valerio matured a great interest for Titan’s liquid bodies, in particular for the determination of depth, composition and surface roughness of the polar seas.

Selected Publications / Abstracts:

Poggiali, V., Hayes, A. G., Mastrogiuseppe, M., Le Gall, A., Lalich, D., Gómez‐Leal, I., & Lunine, J. I. (2020). The bathymetry of moray sinus at Titan’s Kraken Mare. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125, e2020JE006558. doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006558

V. Poggiali et al., “High-Resolution Topography of Titan Adapting the Delay/Doppler Algorithm to the Cassini RADAR Altimeter Data,” in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 7262-7268, Sept. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2912575.

Poggiali, V., M. Mastrogiuseppe, A. G. Hayes, R. Seu, S. P. D. Birch, R. Lorenz, C. Grima, and J. D. Hofgartner (2016), Liquid-filled canyons on Titan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 7887–7894, doi:10.1002/2016GL069679.