Background
DeGrandi, Gianfranco was born on September 11, 1947 in Milan, Italy. Son of Nemo and Carla (Redaelli) DeG.
DeGrandi, Gianfranco was born on September 11, 1947 in Milan, Italy. Son of Nemo and Carla (Redaelli) DeG.
Doctor in Engineering, Polimi, Milan, 1973.
Project engineer DPC, Milan, 1975-1977. Postdoctoral fellow European Commission Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy, 1973-1975, member technical staff Italy, 1977-1985, head signal processing Italy, 1986-1994, chief radar scientist, TREES project Research and Development coordinator Italy, 1994-1996, head applied radar remote sensing sector Italy, since 1996. Visiting scientist Bellcore, Morristown, New Jersey, 1985.
Consultant United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1980-1984. Invited lecturer Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1985, International Business Machines Corporation, Zurich, 1986, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California. Assistant professor Faculté de Forestier et Geomatique, University Laval, Quebec, 1997.
Principal investigator Global Rain Forest Mapping Project of National Agency of Space Development of Japan, 1998.
Supporter, Conservation of La Badia, Ganna, Italy, 1973. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The Planetary Society.
Married Marisa Donnaloja, September 4, 1982. Children: Elsa Carla, Alessandro Lohengrin.