Dr. Armando Marino is a Senior Lecturer in Earth Observation in Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Stirling. Armando Marino was awarded a PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh, (School of Geosciences), and his thesis was awarded ‘Best PhD Thesis 2011’ by the RSPSoc (Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society) and ’Outstanding PhD Thesis’ by Springer Verlag, which published the thesis in 2012. After working at the University of Alicante, Institute of Computing Research, in Spain, from December 2011 to May 2015 he was a postdoctorate researcher and lecturer at the ETH Zürich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Switzerland, and then as a lecturer at the Open University, Department of Engineering and Innovation, in Milton Keynes, UK. His research involves the use of SAR and SAR polarimetry in studying land dynamics, change detection, water pollution (in particular plastic pollution), and for ship detection.
