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.
While Valerio spent significant efforts in the study Titan’s liquid bodies, for the determination of their depth, composition and surface roughness, he recently turned his attention back to solid surfaces aiming at shedding more light on their characteristics.

Selected Publications / Abstracts:

Poggiali, V., Brighi, G., Hayes, A.G. et al. Surface properties of the seas of Titan as revealed by Cassini mission bistatic radar experiments. Nat Commun 15, 5454 (2024), doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49837-2.

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.