Helping people understand real-world facts through Earth Observation data.
Earth Observation scientist. Managing Partner and co-founder of ALSO Space, Brussels. I lead the production of the Copernicus Image of the Day for the European Commission, draw satellite scenes with my own scripts, and build data visualisation from Copernicus data.
The European summer of 2026 against 1991–2020, the third warmest on record, measured 16 September 2026.
People in the EU under strong heat stress on the same day, 27 June 2026, measured 16 August 2026.
The surface of the Mediterranean Sea on 22 July 2026 against 1991–2020, the highest anomaly from 1 June to 15 August, measured 16 August 2026.
I am an Earth Observation scientist with more than ten years across EU academia, the European space industry, and institutional projects, specialised in the visualisation of Earth Observation data and in science communication. I lead the production of the Copernicus Image of the Day for the European Commission's DG DEFIS, and I create the geospatial data visualisations used by the EU Space Support Office, for which I act as Copernicus Thematic Lead and senior Earth Observation and GIS expert.
I direct the ECMWF contract for the Copernicus Health and Energy Hubs, the ASI IRIDE user-uptake project, the EUMETSAT Copernicus data-visualisation and EU Ocean Decade contracts, and contracts in security and defence. Before that, I worked at the Department of Physics of the University of Salerno. My background is in physics, geophysics, ecology, biology, chemistry, and cartography.
Before a figure is drawn, the official number is reproduced to its last decimal. When mine differs, the difference is declared.
Every scene comes from the data through a script, with the place, the day, the sensor, and the scale written next to it.
A colour means the same thing in every figure. Every source and every number is dated, and my own calculations are marked as mine.