Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Via G. Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa

Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni

 
 

Publications & Awards

My professional expertise encompasses statistical signal processing, estimation and detection theory, statistical methods for data analysis, non-Gaussian signal detection and estimation, non-stationary and cyclostationary signal analysis with particular applications to radar systems.

Honors/Awards

2001 - IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Barry Carlton Award for 2001 Best Paper for the paper (co-authored with P. Lombardo, M. Greco, A. Farina, and B. Billingsley) that was published in the July 2001 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

2008 - 2008 Fred Nathanson Young Engineer of the Year Award for contributions to signal processing, estimation, and detection theory.

Publications

International and National Journals

[J1] E. Dalle Mese, F. Gini, F. Lombardini, M.V. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Sensori Multipli ed Integrazione dei Dati," Alta Frequenza, Vol. 6, No. 1, Gennaio.-Febbraio 1994 (in Italian).

[J2] F. Gini, M.V. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Detection Problem in Mixed Clutter Environment as a Gaussian Problem by Adaptive Pre-Processing," Electronics Letters, vol. 31, No. 14, pp. 1189-1190, July 1995.

[J3] G. Corsini, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Cram‚r-Rao Bounds and Estimation of the Parameters of the Gumbel Distribution," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 1202-1204, July 1995.

[J4] A. Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, P. Lee, "Improvement Factor for Real Sea-Clutter Doppler Frequency Spectra," IEE Proceedings Part-F, vol. 143, No. 5, pp. 341-344, October 1996.

[J5] A.Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "High Resolution Sea Clutter Data: A Statistical Analysis of Recorded Live Data" IEE Proceedings Part-F , Vol. 144, No. 3, pp. 121-130, June 1997.

[J6] F. Gini, M.V. Greco, A. Farina, P. Lombardo, "Optimum and Mismatched Detection Against K-Distributed plus Gaussian Clutter," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems , Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 860-876, July 1998.

[J7] K.J. Sangston, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, A. Farina, "Structures for Optimal and Suboptimal Coherent radar Detection in Compound Gaussian Clutter," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems , Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 445-458, April 1999.

[J8] J.B.Billingsley, A.Farina, F.Gini, M.V. Greco, L.Verrazzani "Statistical Analyses of Measured Radar Ground Clutter Data," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems , Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 579-593, April 1999.

[J9] F. Gini, M.V. Greco, A. Farina, "Clairvoyant and Adaptive Signal Detection in Non-Gaussian Clutter: a Data-Dependent Threshold Interpretation," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 1522-1531, June 1999.

[J10] F.Gini, M.V. Greco, "A Suboptimum Approach to Adaptive Coherent radar Detection in Compound-Gaussian Clutter," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 1095-1104, July 1999.

[J11] F. Berizzi, M. Greco, and L. Verrazzani, "A Fractal Approach for Sea Clutter Generation," IEE Proceedings Part-F , Vol. 147, No.4, August 2000, pp. 189-198.

[J12] F. Gini, M. Greco, M. Diani, and L. Verrazzani "Performance Analysis of Two Adaptive Radar Detectors against Non-Gaussian Real Sea Clutter Data," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems , Vol. 36, No. 4, October 2000, pp. 1429-1439.

[J13] F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, P. Lombardo "Note on Optimum and Mismatched detection Against K-Distributed plus Gaussian Clutter," IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems , Vol. 37, No.1, January 2001, pp.296-297.

[J14] F. Gini, A. Farina, M. Greco, "Selected List of References on Non-Gaussian Radar Detection" IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 37, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 329-359.

[J15] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, and J. B. Billingsley, "Validation of Windblown Ground Clutter Spectral Shape by Analysis of Clutter Cancellation in the Presence of Measured Clutter Data," IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 2001, pp. 538-548.

[J16] P. Lombardo, M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, J.B. Billingsley, "Impact of Ground Clutter Spectral Shape on Radar System Performance Prediction", IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 37, No. 3, July 2001, pp. 1022-1038.

[J17] M. Greco, F. Gini, M. Diani, "Robust CFAR detection of random signals in compound-Gaussian clutter plus thermal noise," IEE Proceedings Part-F , Vol. 148, No. 4, August 2001, pp. 227-232.

[J18] F. Gini, G.B. Giannakis, M. Greco, and G. T. Zhou "Time-Averaged Subspace Methods for Radar Clutter Texture Retrieval," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 49, No. 9, September 2001, pp. 1886-1898.

[J19] F. Gini and M. Greco, "Texture Modelling, Estimation, and Validation Using Measured Sea Clutter Data," IEE Proceedings-Part F, Vol. 149, No. 3, June 2002.

[J20] F. Gini and M. Greco, "Covariance Matrix Estimation for CFAR Detection in Correlated non-Gaussian Clutter," Signal Processing, Special Issue, October 2002.

[J21] A. Farina, F. Gini and M. Greco, "Multiple target DOA estimation by exploiting the amplitude modulation induced by antenna scanning," IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, October 2002.

[J22] F. Gini, M. Greco and A. Farina, "Multiple Target Detection and Estimation by Exploiting the Amplitude Modulation Induced by Antenna Scanning. Part I: Parameter Estimation", IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 39, No. 4, October 2003, pp.1316.

[J23] M. Greco, F. Bordoni, F. Gini, "X-band Sea Clutter Non-Stationarity: The influence of Long Waves," IEEE Journal on Ocean Engineering, Special Issue on "Non-Rayleigh Reverberation and Clutter", special issue, Vol.29, No. 2, April 2004, pp.269-283.

[J24] M. Greco, F. Gini and A. Farina, "Asymptotic Maximum Likelihood DOA Estimation of Multiple Radar Targets", Signal Processing Elsevier, Vol. 84, No.6, June 2004, pp.969-979.

[J25] F. Gini, A. Farina, M. Greco, "Radar Detection and Pre-Classification Based on Multiple Hypotheses Testing," IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 40, No.3, July 2004, pp. 1046-1059.

[J26] M. Greco, F. Gini, "Analysis and Modeling of Echolocation Signals Emitted by Mediterranean Bottlenose Dolphins", JASP, Volume 2006, Issue 1, Article ID 25257, 10 pages.

[J27] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, V. Ravenni, "Effect of Phase and Range Gate Pull-Off Delay Quantization on Jammer Signal," IEE Proc. Radar, Sonar and Navigation, Vo. 153, No. 5, October 2006, pp.454-459.

[J28] M. Greco, F. Gini, M. Rangaswamy, "Statistical analysis of real polarimetric clutter data at different range resolutions," to be published on IEE Proc. Radar, Sonar and Navigation, 2006.

[J29] M. Greco, F. Gini, "Statistical analysis of high resolution SAR ground clutter data," IEEE Trans. on GRS, Vol.43, No. 3, pp. 566-575, March 2007.

[J30] Y. Norouzi, F. Gini, M.M. Nayeby, M. Greco, "Non coherent radar CFAR detection based on goodness-of-fit tests," IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, Vol.1, No. 2, pp. 98-105, April 2007.

[J31] A. Nehorai, F. Gini, M. Greco, A. P. Suppappola, M. Rangaswamy, "Introduction to the issue on adaptive waveform design for agile sensing and communication," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 2-5, June 2007.

[J32] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, "Joint use of and Channels for Multiple Radar Target DOA Estimation," IEEE Trans. on AES , July 2007.

[J33] M.Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, "Detection and classification of jamming signal belonging to a cone class," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 1984-1993, May 2008.

[J34] M.Greco, S. Watts, "Introduction to the Issue on Modelling and Processing of Radar Signals for Earth Observation", International Journal of Navigation and Observation, Vol. 2008.

[J35] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, M. Rangaswamy, "DOA estimation and multi-user interference in a two-radar system", Signal Processing Elsevier, Vol. 89, No.4, pp. 355-364, April 2009.

[J36] A. Younsi, M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Zoubir, “Performance of the adaptive generalised matched subspace constant false alarm rate detector in non-Gaussian noise: an experimental analysis”, IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, Vol.3, No. 3, pp. 195-202 , June 2009.

[J37] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, L. Timmoneri, “Direction-of-Arrival estimation in radar systems: Moving window and Approximate Maximum Likelihood estimator”, IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, p. 552-557, Vol.3, No. 5, 2009.

[J38] M. Greco, P. Stinco, F. Gini, “Identification and analysis of sea radar clutter spikes”, Proc. IET, Radar, Sonar and Navigation, Special Issue on Radar Clutter, Vol. 4, No. 2 , p. 239-250, April 2010.

[J39] M.Greco, P.Stinco, F. Gini, M. Rangaswamy, “ Impact of sea clutter non-stationarity on disturbance matrix estimate and detector CFAR”, IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, in press, July 2010.

[J40] K.J. Sangston, F. Gini, M. Greco, “Coherent radar detection in heavy-tailed compound-Gaussian clutter”, submitted to IEEE Trans. on AES, April 2010, revised July 2010.

[J41] M. Greco, F. Gini, P. Stinco, A. Farina “Cramér-Rao bounds and selection of bistatic channels for multistatic radar systems”, submitted to IEEE Trans. on AES, July 2010.

[J42] S. Fortunati, F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, A. Graziano, S. Giompapa, “Impact of flight turbulences on airborne radar tracking”, submitted to IEEE Trans. on AES, July 2010.

[J43] S. Fortunati, A. Farina, F. Gini, A. Graziano, M. Greco, S. Giompapa, “Least squares estimation and Cramér-Rao lower bounds for relative sensor registration process”, submitted to IEEE Trans. on SP, July 2010.

Book Chapters

[B1] F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, "Multiple radar target Detection and estimation by exploiting induced amplitude modulation," Chap. 16 of Advances in Direction of Arrival Estimation, S. Chandran editor, Artech House, December 2005.

[B2] M. Greco, F. Gini, "Sea clutter non-stationarity: the influence of long-waves", Chap. 5 of Adaptive radar: Toward the development of cognitive radar, Simon Haykin editor, Wiley, to be published in 2006.

International Conferences

[C1] F. Gini, M.V. Greco, F. Lombardini, L. Verrazzani, "Distributed CFAR Detection in Weibull Clutter," Proc. GRETSI Symposium on signal and Image Processing, Juan-Les-Pins, France, September 1993.

[C2] E. Dalle Mese, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, F. Lombardini, L. Verrazzani, "Decision Fusion in a High Resolution Multiradar Network," Proc. NATO AC/243 Panel 3/4 Symposium on Multisensors and Sensor Data Fusion, Brussels, Belgium, November 1993.

[C3] A. Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, P. Lombardo, "Coherent Radar Detection of Targets Against a Combination of K-Distributed and Gaussian Clutter," Proceedings of the IEEE International RADAR Conference, Washington, U.S.A., May 1995.

[C4] M.V. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, P. Lombardo, "Coherent Radar Detection of Signals with Unknown Parameters Against a Combination of K-Distributed and Gaussian Clutter," GRETSI Symposium on signal and Image Processing, Juan-Les-Pins, France, September 1995.

[C5] A. Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, K.J. Sangston, "Optimum and Sub-Optimum Coherent Radar Detection in Compound Gaussian Clutter: A Data-Dependent Threshold Interpetation," Proceedings of the IEEE National RADAR Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., May 1996.

[C6] A. Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Analysis of Sea Clutter Radar Data," 1996 CIE International Conference of Radar, Beijing, China, October 1996.

[C7] A. Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, F. Lombardini, P. Lombardo, K.J. Sangston, L. Verrazzani, "Radar Detection of Targets: New Theoretical Findings and Results by Processing Recorded Live Data," (invited paper)1996 CIE International Conference of Radar, Beijing, China, October 1996.

[C8] F. Gini, M.V. Greco, "Variance Bounds for Parameter Estimation in Correlated Non-Gaussian Clutter", 1997 National Radar Conference, Syracuse, NY, USA, May 1997.

[C9] B.Billingsley, A.Farina, F.Gini, M.V.Greco, P.Lombardo, "Impact of experimentally measured Doppler spectrum of ground clutter cancellation on MTI and STAP", 1997 International Radar Conference, Edinburgh, October 1997.

[C10] F.Gini, M.V. Greco, K.J. Sangston, A. Farina "Coherent adaptive radar detection in non-Gaussian sea clutter", 31st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, November 1997 (invited paper).

[C11] F. Gini, A. Farina, and M.V. Greco, "Detection of Multidimentional Gaussian Random Signals in Compound-Gaussian Clutter plus Thermal Noise", 4th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP '98), October 1998, Beijing, China, pp.1650-3

[C12] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, J.B. Billingsley, "Analysis of Clutter Cancellation in the Presence of Measured Radar Ground Clutter Data", IEEE Radar 2000 Conference, Washington DC, May 2000, pp. 422-427.

[C13] F. Gini, M. Greco, "Texture Modeling and Validation Using Recorded High Resolution Sea Clutter Data," 2001 IEEE Radar Conference, May 2001, Atlanta, GA.

[C14] A. Farina, B. Wade, F. Gini, M. Greco, "Clutter Analysis with Cyclostationary Techniques," Conf. On Multifunction radar and sonar sensor management techniques, the Radar, Sonar and Navigation systems professional network, downloadable at http://www.iee.org/Oncomms/pn/radar/mfr.cfm, London, UK, 26th November 2001.

[C15] A. Farina, F. Gini, M. Greco, "Multiple target DOA estimation by exploiting knowledge of the antenna main beam pattern", 2002 IEEE Radar Conference, April 2002, Long Beach, CA, USA.

[C16] F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, "Asymptotic maximum likelihood estimation of multiple radar targets," IEEE Radar Conference 2003, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, 5-8 May 2003.

[C17] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, "Multiple Target Detection and Estimation by Exploiting the Amplitude Modulation Induced by Antenna Scanning. Part I: Parameter Estimation," IEEE ICASSP Conference, Place, Hong Kong, 6-10 April, 2003.

[C18] F. Gini, F. Bordoni, M. Greco, A. Farina, "Multiple Target Detection and Estimation by Exploiting the Amplitude Modulation Induced by Antenna Scanning. Part II: Detection," IEEE ICASSP Conference, Place, Hong Kong, 6-10 April, 2003.

[C19] F. Bordoni, F. Gini, M. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Analysis of non-stationarity in high-range-resolution sea reflections", 2003 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Remote Sensing, Elba Island, Italy, September 15-18 2003.

[C20] M. Greco, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani, "Analysis and Modeling of Acoustic Signals Emitted by Mediterranean Bottlenose Dolphins," ISSPIT03, December 2003, Darmstadt, Germany

[C21] M. Greco, A. Farina, F. Gini, "A Multiple Hypotheses Testing Approach to Radar Detection and pre-Classification," 2004 Radar Conference, May 2004, Philadelphia, USA.

[C22] M. Greco, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani and A. Balleri, "Analysis of polarimetric marine scattering at different range resolutions", IGARSS 2004 Conference, September 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

[C23] M. Greco, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani, D.D.Giusto, M. Murroni, M. L.Lobina, "Analysis and modeling of echolocation signals emitted by Mediterranean Bottlenose Dolphins", 2004 EIM Conference, July 2004, Corte, Corsica.

[C24] D.D.Giusto, M. Murroni, M. L. Lobina, M. Greco, F. Gini, L.Verrazzani, "Quality Evaluation in Cetacean Audio Samples", 2004 EIM Conference, July 2004, Corte, Corsica.

[C25] A. Farina, F.Gini, M. Greco, "Combined effect of phase and RGPO delay quantization on jamming signal spectrum", 2005 Radar Conference, May 2005, Arlington, USA.

[C26] M. Greco, F. Gini, S. Nuti, "Ultrasonic sonar clicks emitted by Mediterranean bottlenose dolphins: analysis and modeling," NSIP05, May 2005, Sapporo, Japan.

[C27] F. Gini, M. Greco, "Statistical analysis of MSTAR data in different vegetation areas," Third Annual Tri-Service Waveform Diversity Workshop, March 2005, Huntsville, AL, USA.

[C28] M. Greco, F. Gini, "Joint use of and Channels for Multiple Radar Target DOA Estimation," EUSIPCO05, September 2005, Antalya, Turkey.

[C29] M. Greco, F. Gini, M. Rangaswamy, "Analysis of polarimetric lake clutter data at different range resolution," 2006 International Waveform Diversity & Design Conference, January 2006, Hawaii, USA.

[C30] M. Greco, F. Gini, M. Rangaswamy, "Non-stationarity Analysis of real X-band clutter data at different range resolutions," 2006 International Radar Conference, April 2006, Verona, NY, USA.

[C31] A. Farina, F. Gini, M. Greco, V. Ravenni, L. Verrazzani, "Radar Detection of Deception Signals," EDEFENCE 2006, May 2006, Livorno, Italy.

[C32] M. Greco, F. Gini, "Statistical analysis of SAR data in different vegetated areas," 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP06, May 2006, Toulouse, France.

[C33] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, "Detection and Classification of Jamming Signals," EUSIPCO 2006, September 2006, Florence, Italy.

[C34] Y. Norouzi, M. Greco, M.M. Nayebi, "Performance evaluation of k out of n detector," EUSIPCO 2006, September 2006, Florence, Italy.

[C35] M.Greco, F. Gini, "Statistical Analysis of MSTAR Ground Data", International Conference on Synthetic Aperture Sonar and Synthetic Aperture Radar, September 2006, Lerici, Italy.

[C36] Y. Norouzi, M.M Nayebi, M. Greco, "Asymptotically Optimal Rank Test Detection in Long Tailed Clutter", CIE06, October 2006, Shangai, China

[C37] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, "Radar Detection and Classification of Jamming Signals Based on Cone Classes," Radar 2007, October 2007, Edinburgh, UK.

[C38] M. Greco, F, Gini, "Cross-channel interference in cooperating multi-user radar systems," (invited), ICEAA07, September 2007, Turin, Italy

[C39] M. Greco, F, Gini, A. Farina "Cross-channel interference in radar network," CAMSAP07, December 2007, Isole Vergini, USA

[C40] M. Greco, F, Gini, A. Farina, L. Timmoneri "Radar target DOA estimation: Moving window vs AML estimator,"ICASSP08, April 2008, Las Vegas, USA.

[C41] M. Greco, F. Gini, P. Stinco, A. Farina, L. Verrazzani, "Adaptive waveform diversity for cross-channel interference mitigation, " IEEE 2008 Radar Conference, May 2008, Rome, Italy.

[C42] S. Maresca, M. Greco, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani, "Radar tracking of move-stop-move targets," IEEE 2008 Radar Conference, May 2008, Rome, Italy.

[C43] M. Greco, F. Gini, A Younsi, M. Rangaswamy, A. Zoubir, "Non-stationary sea clutter: Impact on disturbance matrix estimate and detector CFARness", International Radar Conference 2008, Adelaide, Australia.

[C44] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, “ Wind Farms Impact on Radar Systems ”, ENC-GNSS 09, Naples, May 2009.

[C45] M. Greco, F. Gini, “Extraction and statistical analysis of sea clutter spikes”, IET and SEE seminar day on clutter, Paris, France, June 2009.

[C46] P. Fortunati, M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, “Impact of flight disturbances on tracking airborne radar”, IRS 2009, Hamburg, Germany, September 2009.

[C47] M. Greco, S. Maresca, F. Gini, R. Grasso, S. Coraluppi, “Statistical analysis of data measured by the HF surface wave radar WERA”, NATO Workshop on Data Fusion and Anomaly Detection for Maritime Situational Awareness – MSA2009, La Spezia, Italy, September 2009.

[C48] S. Maresca, M. Greco, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani, “ Radar Tracking of a Maneuvering Ground Vehicle Using an Airborne Sensor ”, International Radar Conference 2009, Bordeaux, France, October 2009.

[C49] P. Stinco, M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, L. Timmoneri, “Analysis and comparison of two disambiguity algorithms: The modified CA and CRT”, International Radar Conference 2009, Bordeaux, France, October 2009.

[C50] M. Greco, P. Stinco, F. Gini, “Statistical analysis of sea clutter spikes”, EuRAD 2009, Rome, Italy, October 2009.

[C51] S. Maresca, M. Greco, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani, “Tracking of a Move-Stop-Move Target in Clutter: A Comparison among MM Methods”, EuRAD 2009, Rome, Italy, October 2009.

[C52] A. Farina, F. Gini, M. Greco, P. Stinco, “Optimal Selection of the TX-RX Pair in a Multistatic Radar System”, COGIS 09, Paris, 16-18 November 2009.

[C53] M. Greco, F. Gini, A. Farina, “Cramér-Rao Bounds for Bistatic Radars”, CAMSAP09, Aruba, 13-16 December 2009.

[C54] P. Herselman, J. Cilliers, C. Baker, M. Greco, F. Gini, S. Watts, R. de Wind, “Evaluation and Performance Comparison of Detection Algorithms in a Maritime Environment”, IEEE International Radar Conference 2010, Washington DC, USA, 10-14 May 2010.

[C55] S. Fortunati, F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, A. Graziano, F. R. Castella, “Correction of Refracted Propagation Effects for Airborne Radar Tracking”, IEEE International Radar Conference 2010, Washington DC, USA, 10-14 May 2010.

[C56] S. Maresca, M. Greco, F. Gini, R. Grasso, S. Coraluppi, Nicolas Thomas, “The HF Surface Wave Radar WERA. Part I: Statistical Analysis of Recorded Data”, IEEE International Radar Conference 2010, Washington DC, USA, 10-14 May 2010.

[C57] S. Maresca, M. Greco, F. Gini, R. Grasso, S. Coraluppi, Nicolas Thomas, “The HF Surface Wave Radar WERA. Part II: Spectral Analysis of Recorded Data”, IEEE International Radar Conference 2010, Washington DC, USA, 10-14 May 2010.

[C58] K.J. Sangston, F. Gini, M. Greco, “New Results on Coherent Radar Target Detection in Heavy-Tailed Compound-Gaussian Clutter”, IEEE International Radar Conference 2010, Washington DC, USA, 10-14 May 2010.

[C59] M.Greco, P. Stinco, F. Gini, M. Rangaswamy, “Cramér-Rao Bounds and TX-RX Selection in a Multistatic Radar Scenario (invited)”, IEEE International Radar Conference 2010, Washington DC, USA, 10-14 May 2010.

[C60] K.J. Sangston, F. Gini, M. Greco, “Coherent Target Detection in Heavy-Tailed Compound-Gaussian Clutter: Survey and New Results”, 14 th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Rome, Italy, January 26-29 2010.

[C61] P. Stinco, M. Greco, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani "Optimal Sensor Selection In A Multistatic Passive Radar Scenario", IEEE Gold 2010, Livorno, Italy, 29-30, April 2010.

[C62] S. Fortunati, F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, A. Graziano, S. Giompapa, F. R. Castella, L. Verrazzani, Refracted Propagation Distortion and Its Corrections for Airborne Radar”, IEEE Gold 2010, Livorno, Italy, 29-30, April 2010

[C63] S. Maresca, M. Greco, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani, R. Grasso, S. Coraluppi, J. Horstmann, “Integration of HFSW Radar and AIS Data: Ship Detection and Classification,” IEEE Gold 2010, Livorno, Italy, 29-30, April 2010.

[C64] S. Maresca, M. Greco, F. Gini, R. Grasso, S. Coraluppi, J. Horstmann, “ Vessel Detection and Classification: An Integrated Maritime Surveillance System in the Tyrrhenian Sea ”, CIP 2010, Elba Island, Italy, June 14-16 2010.

[C65] S. Fortunati, F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, A. Graziano, “ Cramér-Rao Type Lower Bounds for Relative Sensor Registration Process”, EUSIPCO 2010, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2010.

[C66] P. Stinco, M. Greco, F. Gini, “Data Fusion in a Multistatic Radar System (invited)”, 2010 International Conference on Synthetic Aperture Sonar and Synthetic Aperture Radar, 13-14 September, Lerici, Italy.

Main Technical Reports

[TR1] F. Gini, M.V. Greco, Rivelazione di Segnali Radar in Ambiente di Clutter non Gaussiano," Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Marzo 1995.

[TR2] A. Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, L. Verrazzani, Preliminary Analysis of Ground Clutter Data, Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Luglio 1995.

[TR3] A. Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, Detection study 1. Optimum and sub-optimum coherent radar detection in compound Gaussian clutter: a data-dependent threshold interpretation, Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Agosto 1995 (registrato ETS Maggio 1996).

[TR4] A. Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, L. Verrazzani, Analisi statistica di dati reali di clutter di mare, Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Maggio 1996.

[TR5] A. Farina, F. Gini, M.V. Greco, L. Verrazzani, Statistical Analysis of Ground Clutter Data , Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Giugno 1997 (registrato Luglio 1997).

[TR6] F.Gini, M.V. Greco, Coherent Adaptive Radar Detection in Non-Gaussian Disturbance: a Suboptimum GLRT Approach, Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Giugno 1997 (registrato Luglio 1997).

[TR7] M. Greco, F. Gini Experimentally Measured Doppler Spectrum of Ground Clutter and MF Performance, Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Maggio 1999 (registrato Luglio 1999).

[TR8] F. Gini, M. Greco Frequency Estimation methods for radar Clutter Texture Modeling, Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Dicembre 1999.

[TR9] F. Gini, A. Farina, M. Greco, Selected List of references on radar Signal processing", Universit… di Pisa, 2000.

[TR10] F. Gini, M. Greco, Texture Modeling, Estimation, and Validation Using Measured Sea Clutter Data, Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Luglio 2000.

[TR11] A. Farina, F. Gini, M. Greco, Multiple target DOA estimation by exploiting the amplitude modulation induced by antenna scanning, Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Maggio 2001.

[TR12] F. Gini and M. Greco, Covariance Matrix Estimation for CFAR Detection in Correlated non-Gaussian Clutter, Editrice Tecnico Scientifica, Pisa, Maggio 2001.

[TR13] F. Gini, M. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Multiple Target Detection and Estimation by Exploiting the Amplitude Modulation Induced by Antenna Scanning. Part I: Parameter Estimation", Dept. of Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Pisa, Pisa, Agosto 2002.

[TR14] F. Gini, F. Bordoni, M. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Multiple Target Detection and Estimation by Exploiting the Amplitude Modulation Induced by Antenna Scanning. Part II: Detection", Dept. of Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Pisa, Pisa, Novembre 2002.

[TR15] F. Gini, M. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Detection and Classification Strategies Based on Multiple Hypotheses Test", University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, February 2003.

[TR16] M. Greco, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani, "Multiple Target Detection and Estimation by Exploiting the Amplitude Modulation Induced by Antenna Scanning. Part III: Joint Use of Sigma and Delta Channels", University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, February 2003

[TR17] M. Greco, F. Bordoni, F. Gini, L. Verrazzani, "X-Band Sea Clutter Non-Stationarity: The Influence of Long Waves," University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, July 2003.

[TR18] L. Alderani, F. Gini, M. Greco, M. Mannucci, S. Nuti, L. Verrazzani, "Modeling and Feature Extraction of Audio Bio-Acoustic Signals Generated by Tyrrhenian Bottlenose Dolphins", Dipartimento di Ingegneria della Informazione, University of Pisa, October 2003.

[TR19] F. Gini, M. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Detection and Classification Strategies Based on Multiple Hypotheses Test: Update", University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, February 2004.

[TR20] F. Gini, M. Greco, L. Verrazzani, "Rivelazione di Segnali a Basso SNR per un Sistema di Allarme Laser", (in Italian), University of Pisa, Italy, May 2004.

[TR21] L. Verrazzani, F. Gini, M. Greco, F. Lombardini, F. Molinu, "Analisi di algoritmi di elaborazione statistica per il miglioramento delle prestazioni di un sistema di anticollisione laser", (in Italian), University of Pisa, Italy, September 2004.

[TR22] F. Gini, M. Greco, "Modelli di segnali di disturbo in sistemi di contromisure elettroniche", (in Italian), University of Pisa, Italy, October 2004.

[TR23] F. Gini, M. Greco, "Tecniche di rivelazione CFAR per radar di navigazione non coerenti: nota tecnica preliminare", (in Italian), University of Pisa, Italy, November 2004

[TR24] F. Gini, M. Greco and M. Rangaswamy, "Statistical analysis of real polarimetric clutter data at different range resolution. Part I: Average behavior", AFOSR grant FA8655-04-1-3059, University of Pisa, Italy, April 2005.

[TR25] F. Gini, M. Greco, V. Ravenni, "Tecniche CFAR applicate a dati reali registrati da radar nautici", University of Pisa, Italy, April 2005.

[TR26] F. Gini, M. Greco and F. Lombardini, "Statistical analysis MSTAR ground clutter data Part I: Preliminary results", University of Pisa, Italy, June 2005.

[TR27] F. Gini, M. Greco and M. Rangaswamy, "Statistical analysis of real polarimetric clutter data at different range resolution. Part II: Non-Stationarity analysis", AFOSR grant FA8655-04-1-3059, University of Pisa, Italy, July 2005.

[TR28] F. Gini, M. Greco, "Stima della DOA di un segnale radar: confronto tra tecnica a finestra mobile, tecnica monopulse e stimatore AML", (in Italian), University of Pisa, Italy, July 2005.

[TR29] S. Giompapa, L. Verrazzani, F. Gini, M. Greco, "Modello del comportamento umano in un sistema di comando e controllo: man in the loop" (in Italian), University of Pisa, Italy, November 2005

[TR30] F. Gini, M. Greco, F. Lombardini and L. Verrazzani, "Statistical analysis MSTAR ground clutter data", University of Pisa, Italy, November 2005.

[TR31] S. Giompapa, L. Verrazzani, F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, A. Graziano, R. Di Stefano, . "Modello del comportamento umano in un sistema di comando e controllo. Man in the loop: un caso di studio" (in Italian) University of Pisa, Italy, January 2006

[TR32] F. Gini, M. Greco, "Radar Detection and Classification of Jamming Signals", University of Pisa, Italy, March 2006.

[TR33] F. Gini, M. Greco, "Metodi per la risoluzione delle ambiguità in frequenza e in distanza nelle applicazioni radar" (in Italian), University of Pisa, Italy, October 2006.

[TR34] F. Gini, M. Greco, and M. Rangaswamy, "Statistical Analysis of lake clutter data with different wind directions", EOARD Grant FA8655-06-1-30100, University of Pisa, Italy, September 2006.

[TR35] F. Gini, M. Greco, P. Stinco, "Metodi per la risoluzione delle ambiguità in distanza nelle applicazioni radar: confronto tra CA e CRT", University of Pisa, Italy, March 2008.

[TR36] M. Greco, F. Gini, P. Stinco, M. Rangaswamy, "DOA Estimation and Multi-User Interference in a Two-Radar System", EOARD Grant FA8655-07-1-3096, University of Pisa, Italy, July 2008.

[TR37] M.Greco, F. Gini, F. Berizzi, M. Martorella, "Il clutter meteorologico" (in Italian), Università di Pisa, January 2008.

[TR38] M.Greco, F. Gini, F. Berizzi, M. Martorella, "Tecniche CFAR mono e bidimensionali in presenza di clutter meteorologico" (in Italian), Università di Pisa, July 2008.

[TR39] M. Greco, F. Gini, P. Stinco, M. Rangaswamy, “DOA Estimation and Multi-Use Interference”, EOARD Grant FA8655-07-1-3096, University of Pisa, Italy, December 2008.

[TR40] F. Gini, M. Greco, P. Stinco “Signal Processing for radar Systems in Networks: The Concept of MIMO Radar”, Progetto SPREWS, University of Pisa, Italy, March 2009.

[TR41] S. Fortunati, F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, A. Graziano, S. Giompapa “Impact of atmospheric turbulences and refraction on airborne tracking radar”, SELEX- SESM, University of Pisa, Italy, July 2009.

[TR42] M. Greco, F. Gini, P. Stinco, “Impatto delle centrali eoliche su radar ATC,” SELEX- Sistemi Integrati, University of Pisa, Italy, July 2009.

[RT43] S. Fortunati, F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, A. Graziano, S. Giompapa “Least Squares Approach and Cramér-Rao-like Bounds for Relative Grid-Locking Problem”, SESM-FMN, University of Pisa, Italy, January 2010.

[RT44] M. Greco, S. Maresca, F. Gini, R. Grasso, S. Coraluppi, J. Horstmann, “The WERA System: Statistical Analysis of Recorded Data and Detection Perforances”, NURC, University of Pisa, Italy, July 2010.

[RT45] S. Fortunati, F. Gini, M. Greco, A. Farina, A. Graziano, S. Giompapa “A Gradient Descent Algorithm for evaluating the Karcher-Fréchet mean in the manifold of the symmetric positive definite matrices and its application in target detection”, SESM-FMN, University of Pisa, Italy, July 2010.

[RT46] P. Stinco, M. Greco, F. Gini, M. La Manna, “Optimization methodology and data fusion in a coherent multistatic radar system”, Project SPREWS, SELEX-Sistemi Integrati, University of Pisa, Italy, July 2010.

Teaching publications

[D1] F. Giannetti, M.Greco, L.Verrazzani, "Appunti di Comunicazioni Elettriche", ETS, July 2000.

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