Contact details
Room 2 East 4.12
PhD supervision
Interested in supervising students studying:
- Radiowave propagation through random media
- GPS receivers and signals
- Space weather
- Radio astronomy
Dr Biagio Forte
PhD
Profile
Dr Biagio Forte graduated in Physics at the University of Trieste (Italy) and went on to complete a PhD in Geo-Physics at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz (Austria).
Biagio joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 2012 as a Prize Fellow in Space Weather. Biagio's fellowship aims at devising countermeasures to mitigate space weather vulnerabilities affecting satellite navigation, for example, in support to civil aviation.
Research
Research interests include:
- Physics and chemistry of the upper ionised atmosphere
- Plasma turbulence and instabilities in magnetized plasmas
- Propagation of electromagnetic waves in random media, transionospheric radio waves propagation
- Radio wave scintillation (ionospheric and interplanetary), fading processes
- RF engineering, GNSS receiver architecture, phase-locked loops, signal modulation and demodulation techniques
- Space weather phenomena and their effects on satellite navigation and telecommunication systems
- Remote sensing of atmospheres in the microwave, millimetre, sub-millimetre, visible, and infrared parts of the spectrum
- Space missions and space instrumentation
- Radio occultation
- Remote sensing of the Earth’s troposphere by means of LIDARs
- Incoherent scatter radars
- Low frequency radio astronomy.
Publications
Articles
Forte, B., Smith, N. D., Mitchell, C. N., Da Dalt, F., Panicciari, T., Chartier, A. T., Stevanovic, D., Vuckovic, M., Kinrade, J., Tong, J. R., Haggstrom, I. and Turunen, E., 2013. Comparison of temporal fluctuations in the total electron conDtisecunsstions estimates from EISCAT and GPS along the same line of sight. Annales Geophysicae, 31, pp. 745-753.
Forte, B., 2012. Analysis of strong ionospheric scintillation events measured by means of GPS signals at low latitudes during disturbed conditions. Radio Science, 47 (4), RS4009.
Sreeja, V., Aquino, M., Elmas, Z. G. and Forte, B., 2012. Correlation analysis between ionospheric scintillation levels and receiver tracking performance. Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications, 10 (6), S06005.
Forte, B., 2012. Analysis of the PLL phase error in presence of simulated ionospheric scintillation events. Radio Science, 47 (3), RS3006.
Sreeja, V. V., Aquino, M., Forte, B., Elmas, Z., Hancock, C., De Franceschi, G., Alfonsi, L., Spogli, L., Romano, V., Bougard, B., Monico, J. F. G., Wernik, A. W., Sleewaegen, J.-M., Canto, A. and Da Silva, E. F., 2011. Tackling ionospheric scintillation threat to GNSS in Latin America. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 1 (1), A05.
Forte, B., Materassi, M., Alfonsi, L., Romano, V., De Franceschi, G. and Spalla, P., 2011. Analysis of GPS ionospheric scintillation measurements at high latitudes. Advances in Space Research, 47 (12), pp. 2188-2193.
Forte, B., Materassi, M., Alfonsi, L., Romano, V., De Franceschi, G. and Spalla, P., 2011. Optimum parameter for estimating phase fluctuations on transionospheric signals at high latitudes. Advances in Space Research, 47 (12), pp. 2188-2193.
Gao, F., Bergant, K., Filipcic, A., Forte, B., Hua, D.-X., Song, X.-Q., Stanic, S., Veberic, D. and Zavrtanik, M., 2011. Observations of the atmospheric boundary layer across the land–sea transition zone using a scanning Mie lidar. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 112 (2), pp. 182-188.
Beniguel, Y., Romano, V., Alfonsi, L., Aquino, M., Bourdillon, A., Cannon, P., De Franceschi, G., Dubey, S., Forte, B., Gherm, V., Jakowski, N., Materassi, M., Noack, T., Pozoga, M., Rogers, N., Spalla, P., Strangeways, H. J., Warrington, E. M., Wernik, A., Wilken, V. and Zernov, N., 2009. Ionospheric scintillation monitoring and modelling. Annals of Geophysics, 52 (3-4), pp. 391-496.
Forte, B., 2008. Refractive scattering evidence from multifrequency scintillation spectra observed at auroral latitudes. Radio Science, 43 (2), RS2012.
Forte, B., 2007. On the relationship between the geometrical control of scintillation indices and the data detrending problems observed at high latitudes. Annals of Geophysics, 50 (6), pp. 699-706.
Forte, B., 2005. Optimum detrending of raw GPS data for scintillation measurements at auroral latitudes. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, 67 (12), pp. 1100-1109.
Forte, B. and Radicella, S. M., 2005. Comparison of ionospheric scintillation models with experimental data for satellite navigation applications. Annals of Geophysics, 48 (3), pp. 505-514.
Forte, B. and Radicella, S. M., 2004. Geometrical control of scintillation indices: what happens for GPS satellites. Radio Science, 39 (5), RS5014.
Forte, B., 2004. Ionospheric scintillation observed during October 2003 storm. Bulgarian Geophysical Journal, 30 (1-4), pp. 40-46.
Beniguel, Y., Forte, B., Radicella, S. M., Strangeways, H. J., Gherm, V. E. and Zernov, N. N., 2004. Scintillations effects on satellite to Earth links for telecommunication and navigation purposes. Annals of Geophysics, 47 (2-3), pp. 1179-1199.
Ezquer, R. G., Kintner, P. M., Cabrera, M. A., Radicella, S. M. and Forte, B., 2003. Scintillations observed at Tucuman as observed from GPS signals. First results. Advances in Space Research, 31 (3), pp. 741-747.
Forte, B. and Radicella, S. M., 2002. Problems in data treatment for ionospheric scintillation measurements. Radio Science, 37 (6), 1096.
Forte, B., Radicella, S. M. and Ezquer, R. G., 2002. A different approach to the analysis of GPS scintillation data. Annals of Geophysics, 45 (3-4), pp. 551-561.
Conference or Workshop Items
Susnik, A., Forte, B. and Spogli, L., 2011. Morphological response of GPS derived ionospheric scintillation activity to disturbed magnetic conditions in the European auroral sector. In: IES2011: International Ionospheric Effects Symposium, 2011-05-16 - 2011-05-18, Alexandria, Virginia.
Forte, B., Aquino, M., Elmas, Z. G. and Vadakke, S. V., 2011. On the use of the of the Cornell Scintillation Model within a Spirent signal simulator for the simulation of ionospheric scintillation events. In: IES2011: International Ionospheric Effects Symposium, 2011-05-16 - 2011-05-18, Alexandria, Virginia.
