National Laboratory of Radar and Surveillance Systems

RaSS Lab is one of the four national laboratories of CNIT (Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunication). It was instituted in December 2010 as an evolvement from a CNIT Research Centre. It is located in Pisa, Galleria Gerace, 18, 56124, Italy.

The main mission of RaSS is to carry out applied research activities in the field of radar, applied electromagnetics, remote sensing, telecommunication, signal processing and network security.

The main research interests are related to wideband radar, SAR/ISAR, InSAR, interferometric imaging 2D/3D and full 3D, passive radar based on digital waveform, wideband microwave radar (form X band to W band), e.m. modelling, RCS (Radar Cross Section) numerical computation, target feature extraction by exploiting target’s inverse scattering properties, propagation modelling, antenna design, tracking with multiple radars.

RaSS is organized (see Fig.1) in four research areas, namely radar systems, radar signal/image processing, remote sensing, antenna, electromagnetic modelling & materials, explorative areas, instrumental laboratories, security office, secretariat, quality control and public relation offices. The director, who chairs the Steering Committee, is in charge of the laboratory governance .

The lab staff consists of University consultants, CNIT personnel, Post-Docs, PhD students and short term contract researchers and it is currently composed by 51 people.

RaSS has been involved both as leader as well as participant in several national and international research projects, funded by MoD (Ministry of defence), EDA (European Defence Agency). MIUR (Ministry of Education), MISE (Ministry of Economic Development), EU FP7, H2020, ESA, ASI, Tuscany Region, NCIA (NATO), Italian Industries like LEONARDO, MBDA, VITROCISET, INTERMARINE, GEM, E-GEOS, others. Most of the RaSS projects led to the production of technological demonstrators at TRL 5-6.

RaSS participates in the NATO SET panel meetings, in several NATO SET (Sensor Electronic Technologies) Task Groups, and in EDA CapTechs.

RaSS is also a member of the AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association) through CNIT and is a partner of the Cluster “Trasporti Italia 2020”.

As a consequence of the high-level technological capabilities reached by RaSS, some researchers founded a CNIT and Univ. of Pisa spin-off company called ECHOES for the production of multichannel radar for civilian and military applications.

RaSS is strongly involved and participates in research and experimental activities at the JCC lab. “Ugo Tiberio”, a joint Italian navy CSSN and CNIT laboratory.

Fig.1 – RaSS Lab. organization

Laboratory building: Galleria G.B. Gerace, 18, 56124 Pisa (PI)

Director: Prof. Marco MARTORELLA, Email: marco.martorella@iet.unipi.it; Phone: +39 050 2217624 (Università di Pisa), +39 050 3820818 (RaSS); Mobile: +39 3475848897

Website: http://labrass.cnit.it/

Contacts: Email: RaSS[AT]cnit.it, PEC: cnit[AT]pec.it, Phone: +39 050 3820810, Fax: +39 050 3820571

Staff of the RaSS Laboratory

Associated to RaSS Laboratory