Chiara Aquino

Chiara Aquino is a Researcher at the CMCC Foundation's Institute for Climate Resilience within the Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services Division, specializing in geospatial analysis and remote sensing applications for environmental monitoring. Her work focuses on land cover change mapping and tropical forest degradation assessment across global ecosystems.

Her academic background includes a PhD in Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences from the University of Edinburgh (UK), where she conducted field research in Amazon and Central African rainforests using integrated remote sensing, aerial LiDAR, and ground inventory methodologies.

Dr. Aquino's research integrates satellite image processing with critical geoethics frameworks, emphasizing open science principles in environmental data analysis. She develops innovative approaches for detecting subtle ecological changes through multi-sensor satellite data fusion and advanced spatial statistics.

Her publication record demonstrates expertise in applying Sentinel-1/2 time-series data for Mediterranean forest fire detection and high-resolution optical analysis for tropical logging identification, revealing methodological advances in 3m-resolution texture analysis.

Scientific Awards:

• No scientific awards documented in available information

Advising and Grants:

No student advising relationships or research grant funding sources specified in current documentation. Her collaborative work emphasizes open-data sharing practices within international environmental research networks.

Labs and Teams:

She operates within the Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services Division at CMCC Foundation's Viterbo headquarters, contributing to climate resilience initiatives through field campaign design and satellite data interpretation frameworks.