Sonia Tomei
Head of Research
Sonia Tomei is an Italian researcher at CNIT (Consorzio Nazionale nteruniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni) in Pisa, where she has been working since 2011. She received her Bachelor’s (2008) and Master’s (2010) Degree both in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Pisa. She spent the second year of her PhD course at the University of Adelaide (South Australia) studying the propagation effects on HF Skywave MIMO radars. After the Ph.D, supported by the University of Pisa (Italy) and the University of Adelaide (Australia) under a Cotutelle Agreement, she focused her research activity in the field of radar imaging and radar signal processing, gaining experience about ISAR techniques and Compressive Sensing among others. Lately she is working on the application of Artificial Intelligence for target classification in radar. Sonia is author of several papers and book chapters presented in leading international journals and conferences. She is currently involved in the management and research of several national and international projects funded by IT MoD, EDA and European Commission. She is also co-founder of Echoes s.r.l., an Italian engineering company specialized in the design, development and manufacturing of innovative radar systems.
Publications
2023
A Drone-Based Multisensory Payload for Maritime Pollutants Detections Journal Article
In: IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, vol. 38, no 3, pp. 4 – 18, 2023, (POSEIDON).
Towards Space Deployment of the NDSA Concept for Tropospheric Water Vapour Measurements Journal Article
In: Atmosphere, vol. 14, no 3, 2023.
2018
Electronic Countermeasure for OFDM-based Imaging Passive Radars Proceedings Article
In: NATO SPECIALISTS’ MEETING SET-SCI-254 on Counter Passive Radar, pp. –, UNITED KINGDOM, 2018, (–).
In: MEASUREMENT, vol. 129, pp. 518–522, 2018.
Resident space object passive bistatic radar detection using DVB-S2 signals Conference
vol. 2018-June, 2018, (Cited by: 2).
2016
4D quick Diff-Tomo analyses of short-term decorrelation of distributed scatterers Proceedings Article
In: 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), pp. 1456-1459, 2016.
2014
Introduzione ai sistemi HF-OTH SKYWAVE Journal Article
In: Rivista Marittima, no 6, pp. 88-102, 2014, (LOTHAR-FATT).
2013
Frequency management in HF-OTH skywave radar: Ionospheric propagation channel representation Journal Article
In: Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, no 50, pp. 97 – 111, 2013, (LOTHAR-FATT).
2012
Inverse synthetic aperture radar of aerial targets based on DVB-T passive radar Conference
Proceedings of 2012 IEEE GOLD Remote Sensing Conference, 2012.
2010
Ship Detection with DVB-T Software Defined Passive Radar Conference
Proceedings of 2010 IEEE GOLD Remote Sensing Conference, 2010, (SMARP).
Software Defined UMTS passive radar demonstrator Conference
PROCEEDINGS ON IRS2010, 2010.
Comparison of ATR systems based on Coherent and Incoherent Polarimetric Decompositions of ISAR Images Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the SENSORS & ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY PANEL Specialists Meeting SET-160 on “NCI/ATR in Air-Ground and Maritime Applications based on Radar and Acousticsâ€?, pp. –, La Spezia, 2010, (CLEANSKY).
A radar oriented ionospheric channel model based on ray-tracing theory Conference
2010, (LOTHAR-FATT).
High range resolution DVB-T Passive Radar Conference
2010, (APIS).
Costal Ship Detection by DVB-T Software Defined Passive Radar: Experimental Results Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of GTTI 2010, BRESCIA, 2010, (APIS).
2009
Automatic Target Recognition by means of Pol-HRR radar profiles fusion Conference
Proceedings of NATO Workshop on Data Fusion and Anomaly Detection for Maritime Situational Awareness (MSA 2009), 2009.
A Software-Defined Frequency Management System for HF-OTH Skywave Radar Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the SENSORS & ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY PANEL Specialists Meeting SET-136/RSM-11 on “SOFTWARE DEFINED RADARâ€?, pp. –, Lisbona, 2009, (LOTHAR-FATT).
Ambiguity function study for UMTS passive radar Conference
2009, (Cited by: 18).
A ray tracing based method for coarse coordinate registration in HF skywave OTH radar Conference
2009, (LOTHAR-FATT).
Spectral modelling of airborne radar signal in presence of windshear phenomena Conference
2009, (KLEAN).
2008
HF-OTH Skywave Radar for Missile Detection Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the SENSORS & ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY PANEL Specialists Meeting SET-125 on “Sensors and Technology for Defence against Terrorismâ€?, pp. –, Mannheim, 2008, (LOTHAR-FATT).