CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

The National Research Council of Italy (CNR) is a public organization with the aim to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main knowledge fields. CNR is distributed over the whole Italy through a network of institutes aiming at promoting a wide diffusion of its competences throughout the national territory and at facilitating contacts and cooperation with local firms and organizations.

CNR participates to PHOOD project through the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (CNR-IREA).

Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment

The CNR-IREA mission is developing methodologies and technologies for acquiring, processing, combining and interpreting images and data obtained by different electromagnetic sensors (satellite, aircraft, UAV, in-situ). CNR-IREA research activities respond to important needs of scientific and technological development in the fields of remote sensing and electromagnetic monitoring of the environment aimed at territory and ecosystems surveillance and management, security and risk assessment including agriculture monitoring. Founded in 2001, IREA has become in few years one of the institutes of excellence of CNR. The results of the research activities have given rise not only to a high scientific production, characterized by publications in journals most relevant to the field, but also to important initiatives of technological transfer and to the creation of a spin-off company also in the field of agri-consultancy.