August 5, 2015 – A team of researchers of the INGV has been awarded the J-Stars Prize Paper Award for the best paper of 2015. The award was handed out by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society during the 2015 IGARSS congress. This is significant recognition for the research carried out by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. The research team used the analysis of the surface displacement field caused by the 21 June 2013 earthquake of Lunigiana and Garfagnana, and provided new information for a better understanding of the seismotectonics of the area for the study of earthquakes located in similar “retraction” areas in the northern Apennines. For this reason, the international commission of experts awarded, among 500 and more papers submitted and published in 2014 by the magazine J-Stars (Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing), the J-Stars Prize Paper Award 2015 to Salvatore Stramondo, Paola Vannoli, Valentina Cannelli, Marco Polcari, Daniele Melini, Sergey Samsonov, Marco Moro, Christian Bignami and Michele Saroli. The team published the article “X- and C-Band SAR Surface Displacement for the 2013 Lunigiana Earthquake (Northern Italy): A Breached Ramp Relay?”.
