PIERFRANCESCO LOMBARDO

SPACECRAFT COMMUNICATION AND LOCALIZATION  (6 CFU)
(see also the course web-site from the menu on the right)
 
Lectures for the academic year  2025/2026 start on Tuesday,  September 23th 2025.
The lectures of Spacecraft Communication and Localization will be given only in presence at the site of  San Pietro in Vincoli with the following schedule:
 
TUESDAY          13:00-15:00  (Lecture Room 5)        (Common fundamentals & Communication Payload) 
THURSDAY       10:00-12:00  (Lecture Room 41)        (Common fundamentals & Communication Payload)   
THURSDAY       12:00-14:00  (Lecture Room 9)           (Satellite Navigation)
 
Students attending the lectures, which will be only held in  in presence, must follow all indication  from Sapienza. In case of motivated absence from the lectures, video-recording of the lectures will be provided after the lecture.
 
The teaching material is available on the web-page of the course  Moodle Sapienza platform - link on the right). 
 
The instructor is available for questions and student support as reported below.
 
 
SATELLITE PAYLOADS for Communications, Navigation and Radar Observation (9 CFU)
(see also the course web-site from the menu on the right)
 
Lectures for the academic year  2025/2026 start on Tuesday,  September 23th 2025.
The lectures of Satellite Payloads for Communication, Navigation and Radar Observation will be given only in presence at the site of  San Pietro in Vincoli with the following schedule:
 
TUESDAY          13:00-15:00  (Lecture Room 5)           (Common fundamentals & Communication Payload)  
THURSDAY       10:00-12:00  (Lecture Room 41)         (Common fundamentals & Communication Payload)    
THURSDAY       12:00-14:00  (Lecture Room 9)           (Satellite Navigation)
FRIDAY              09:00-11:00  (Lecture Room 10)         (Radar Payload)      
 
Students attending the lectures, which will be only held in  in presence, must follow all indication  from Sapienza. In case of motivated absence from the lectures, video-recording of the lectures will be provided after the lecture.
 
The teaching material is available on the web-page of the course  Moodle Sapienza platform - link on the right). 
 
The instructor is available for questions and student support as reported below.
 
 
COMMUNICATION AND RADAR PAYLOADS (6 CFU)
(see also the course web-site from the menu on the right)
 
Lectures for the academic year  2025/2026 start on Tuesday,  September 23th 2025.
The lectures of Communication and Radar Payloads will be given only in presence at the site of  San Pietro in Vincoli with the following schedule:
 
TUESDAY          13:00-15:00  (Lecture Room 5)            (Common fundamentals & Communication Payload)  
THURSDAY       10:00-12:00  (Lecture Room 41)          (Common fundamentals & Communication Payload)       
FRIDAY              09:00-11:00  (Lecture Room 10)          (Radar Payload)          
 
Students attending the lectures, which will be only held in  in presence, must follow all indication  from Sapienza. In case of motivated absence from the lectures, video-recording of the lectures will be provided after the lecture.
 
The teaching material is available on the web-page of the course  Moodle Sapienza platform - link on the right). 
 
The instructor is available for questions and student support as reported below.
 
 
 
 
CONTROLLO DEL TRAFFICO AEREO (vedi anche sito web del corso menù a destra)
 
Le lezioni per l’anno accademico 2025/2026 inizieranno lunedì 22 settembre 2025.
Il corso di Controllo del Traffico Aereo si terrà in in presenza nella sede di San Pietro in Vincoli con il seguente orario:
 
LUNEDÌ            10:00-12:00 (Aula 9)
MARTEDÌ         10:00-12:00 (Aula 9)
MERCOLEDÌ    12:00-14:00 (Aula 9)
GIOVEDÌ          12:00-14:00 (Aula 9)
 
Chi vorrà seguire le lezioni in presenza dovrà seguire tutte le indicazioni dell'Ateneo.  Chi avesse motivata impossibilità ad essere presente in aula, potrà ottenere le video-registrazioni delle lezioni
 
Il materiale didattico verrà reso disponibile sul sito del corso (piattaforma Moodle Sapienza - link a destra). 
 
Il docente è disponibile  ad incontrare gli studenti per le spiegazioni come illustrato di seguito.
 
 
 
RICEVIMENTO STUDENTI - STUDENT SUPPORT MEETINGS
 
Per spiegazioni relative ai corsi erogati  - For questions and student support:
 
Online (Zoom):  martedì - Tuesday             15:30 - 16:30      prenotazioni su - reservations at:   
                                                                          https://meet-with-pierfrancesco-lombardo.appointlet.com
In presence:       mercoledì - Wednesday   14:40 - 16:00      prenotazioni su - reservations at:
                                                                          https://meet-with-pierfrancesco-lombardo.appointlet.com
 
 
 
 
 

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2° Semestre 2024/2025

SISTEMI RADAR (vedi anche sito web del corso menù a destra)
 
Le lezioni per l’anno accademico 2024-2025 inizieranno venerdì 28 febbraio 2024.
Il corso di Sistemi Radar si terrà in in presenza nell'AULA 22 di San Pietro in Vincoli con il seguente orario:
 
LUNEDÌ    e    VENERDÌ        08:00-12:00
 
Le lezioni del corso sono erogate in presenza.  Il materiale didattico verrà reso disponibile sul sito del corso (piattaforma Moodle Sapienza: https://elearning.uniroma1.it/course/view.php?id=4792). 
 
 
TELECOMUNICAZIONI PER L'AEROSPAZIO (vedi anche sito web del corso menù a destra)
 
 
Le lezioni per l’anno accademico 2024-2025 inizieranno martedì 25 febbraio 20245.
Il corso di Telecomunicazioni per l'Aerospazio si terrà in in presenza presso San Pietro in Vincoli con il seguente orario:
 
MARTEDÌ         12:00-14:00 - Aula 41
MERCOLEDÌ    10:00-12:00 - Aula 38
VENERDÌ          12:00-13:00 - Aula 1
 
Le lezioni del corso sono erogate in presenza.
 
Il materiale didattico verrà reso disponibile sul sito del corso (piattaforma Moodle Sapienza https://elearning.uniroma1.it/course/view.php?id=14477). 
 
 
 
 
Il docente è disponibile  ad incontrare gli studenti per le spiegazioni come illustrato di seguito.
 
 
 
RICEVIMENTO STUDENTI - STUDENT SUPPORT MEETINGS
 
Per spiegazioni relative ai corsi erogati  - For questions and student support:
In presence and Online (Zoom): 
 
martedì - Tuesday                   14:30 - 15:30       
                                                                      
mercoledì - Wednesday         14:30 - 15:30      
 
si richiede la prenotazione su - reservation is required at:
https://meet-with-pierfrancesco-lombardo.appointlet.com 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pierfrancesco Lombardo received the degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, in 1991 and 1995, respectively.
After serving at the Official Test Centre of the Italian Air Force in 1992, he was Associate with Birmingham University (UK) and at Defence Research Agency in Malvern, in 1994. In 1995, he was research associate at Syracuse University (NY-USA). In 1996, he joined the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where he is presently Full Professor since 2005.

In Sapienza he presently teaches for the BSc in Aerospace Engineering, the MSc in Space and Astronautics Engineering, the MSc in Communication Engineering, and the MSc in Aeronautical Engineering. In the last decade, he served six years as director of BSc and MSc courses in Telecommunication Engineering, two years as president of the Spin-Off Committee, and four years as director of the Ph.D in ICT and is member of the Board of the Master in Satellites and Orbiting Platforms.

Prof. Lombardo raised and leads the “Radar, Remote Sensing and Navigation” (RRSN) group, which has a tradition of research project for both institutional and industrial partners, including EU, MIUR, ESA, ASI, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Thales Alenia Space, Rheinmetall and others.

He was member of the Scientific Committee of the SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) Joint Undertaking (European Commission & Eurocontrol (2009-2011). He was member of the Scientific Committee of POLARIS, the technical journal of SELEX Integrated Systems (Finmeccanica), of the SELEX Academy advanced training school (2010-2012), as well of the Finmeccanica Industries Innovation Prize committee (2013).

The main research interests of Prof. Lombardo include active and passive Radar Systems, adaptive array Radar, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Positioning Systems. His research has been reported in over 330 publications in international technical journals and conferences, a book and seven book chapters. (Google Scholar h-index: 47, Scopus h-index: 39). Among the many scientific contributions, especially significant results have been obtained in: (i) the signal processing for passive and multistatic Radar, (ii) Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) for adaptive array Radar systems, (iii) processing techniques for High Resolution airborne and spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), with special attention to: Ground Moving Target Detection, image improvement using multi-channel receivers and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) solutions.

Dr. Lombardo is co-recipient of the Barry Carlton (Best Paper) award of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic System is 2001 and of the best paper award for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing in 2003.

He was Senior Technical Editor for Radar Systems (2016 to 2021) and Associate Editor in Chief (2018 to 2020) of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES). He was member of the IEEE AES Radar Systems Panel from 2007 to 2019 and is presently member of the Editorial board of IET Proceedings on Radar Sonar and Navigation.

He served in the technical committee of many international conferences on radar systems and signal processing. He was Technical Chairman of the IEEE/ISPRS Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas URBAN’2001, Rome, URBAN’2003, Berlin, and URBAN’2005, Tempe (US). He was also Technical Chairman of the IEEE Radar Conference 2008 in Rome and 2020 in Florence as well as General Chairman of the European Radar Conference EuRAD’2022 in Milan.