2026
Mauro Leonardi, Giulio Sidoretti, Edoardo Navarra, Mahsa Mohebbi “Spase-based multilateration for a GNSS-independent aircraft localisation”, Acta Astronautica 246 (2026) 525-537
2025
Mauro Leonardi, Giulio Sidoretti, Edoardo Navarra, Mahsa Mohebbi, “Space-based multilateration system for a GNSS-independent aircraft localisation”, IAC 2025,Sydney, Australia, September 29 -October 3 2025
Mauro Leonardi, Giulio Sidoretti,Viola Bedotti, Mahsa Mohebbi, “Keynote: Introducing Pseudo-Range Rates and IMU Sensors to Improve Lunar Satellite Navigation System Performance,” IAC 2025, Sydney, Australia, September 29 – October 3 2025
Mauro Leonardi, Mahsa Mohebbi, Giulio Sidoretti, “Robust and resilient GNSS synchronization of LEO satellites for space-based aircraft Multilateration”, MetroAeroSpace 2025, Naples, Italy, June 18-20 2025
Mauro Leonardi, Georghe Sirbu, Mattia Carosi, Cosimo Stallo, Carmine Di Lauro, “Moon Sensor Station to Improve the Performance of Lunar Satellite Navigation Systems”, (2025) Sensors, 25 (12), art. no. 3675
2023
Gheorghe Sirbu, Mauro Leonardi, Stallo Cosimo , Mattia Carosi, “Improving the performance of lunar satellite navigation systems by exploiting inter-satellite distance information”, 36th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS+ 2023, Colorado, Denver , September 11-15 2023
Georghe Sirbu, Mauro Leonardi, Mattia Carosi, Carmine di Lauro, Cosimo Stallo, ” Exploiting differential correction in the future Lunar Satellite Navigation System”, (2023) 2023 IEEE 10th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, MetroAeroSpace 2023 – Proceedings, pp. 324 – 329
Georghe Sirbu, Mauro Leonardi, “Fully Autonomous Orbit Determination and Synchronization for Satellite Navigation and Communication Systems in Halo Orbits”, (2023) Remote Sensing, 15 (5), art. no. 1173
Georghe Sirbu, Mauro Leonardi, Cosimo Stallo, Carmine Di Lauro, Mattia Carosi, ” Evaluation of different satellite navigation methods for the Moon in the future exploration age”, (2023) Acta Astronautica, 208, pp. 205 – 218
Martin Strohmeier, Mauro Leonardi, Sergei Markochev, Fabio Markochev, Matthias Schafer, Vincent Lenders, ” In Pursuit of Aviation Cybersecurity: Experiences and Lessons From a Competitive Approach”, (2023) IEEE Security and Privacy, 21 (4), pp. 61 – 73
2022
Mauro Leonardi, Georghe Sirbu, Nicola Rana, Edoardo De Angeli, Massimo Eleuteri, ” LUNAR GATEWAY AUTONOMOUS ORBIT DETERMINATION AND TIME SYNCHRONIZATION BY THE USE OF ONE OR TWO SMALL ORBITERS”, (2022) Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC, 2022-September
Mauro Leonardi, Gianluca Ligresti, Emilio Piracci, “Drones Classification by the Use of a Multifunctional Radar and Micro-Doppler Analysis“, (2022) Drones, 6 (5), art. no. 124
Georghe Sirbu, Mauro Leonardi, Mattia Carosi, Carmine Di Lauro, Stallo Cosimo, ” Performance evaluation of a lunar navigation system exploiting four satellites in ELFO orbits”, (2022) 2022 IEEE 9th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, MetroAeroSpace 2022 – Proceedings, pp. 146 – 151
Georghe Sirbu, Mauro Leonardi, Carmine Di Lauro, Mattia Carosi, ” GEOMETRICAL COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT LOCALIZATION METHODS FOR LUNAR NAVIGATION EXPLOITING ELFO AND HALO ORBITS”, (2022) Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC, 2022-September
2021
Matthis Schäfer, Martin Strohmeier, Leonardi Mauro, Vincent Lenders, “Locards: A localization reference data set”, (2021) Sensors, 21 (16), art. no. 5516
Mauro Leonardi, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, “On Jamming Attacks in Crowdsourced Air Traffic Surveillance”, (2021) IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 36 (6), art. no. 9448601, pp. 44 – 54
Mauro Leonardi, Georghe Sirbu, Cosimo Stallo, Massimo Eleuteri, Carmine Di Lauro, Claudia Iannone, “Autonomous lunar satellite navigation system: Preliminary performance assessment on south pole”, (2021) ION 2021 International Technical Meeting Proceedings, pp. 478 – 490
Mauro Leonardi, Georghe Sirbu, “Ads-b crowd-sensor network and two-step kalman filter for gnss and ads-b cyber-attack detection”, (2021) Sensors, 21 (15), art. no. 4992
2020
Mauro Leonardi, Marco Maisano, “Backward Compatible Physical Layer Protocol Evolution for ADS-B Message Authentication”, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, (2020) 35 (5), art. no. 9097502, pp. 16 – 26
Mauro Leonardi, Fabrizio Grardi, “Aircraft mode S transponder fingerprinting for intrusion detection”, (2020) Aerospace, 7 (3), art. no. 30
2019
Mauro Leonardi, ” ADS-B Anomalies and Intrusions Detection by Sensor Clocks Tracking“, (2019) IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 55 (5), art. no. 8574953, pp. 2370 – 2381
Mauro Leonardi, Emilio Giuseppe Piracci, Valerio Fastella, “W-band multi-radar processing for airport foreign object debris and humans detection”, (2019) Proceedings of European Microwave Conference in Central Europe, EuMCE 2019, art. no. 8874695, pp. 285 – 288
Mauro Leonardi, Marco Maisano, “Degarbling technique for low cost ADS-B receivers”, (2019) 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, MetroAeroSpace 2019 – Proceedings, art. no. 8869689, pp. 65 – 69
Mauro Leonardi, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, “Jamming/garbling assessment and possible mitigations in the opensky network”, (2019) EPiC Series in Computing, 67, pp. 85 – 96
2018
Mauro Leonardi, Emilio Giuseppe Piacci, “ADS-B degarbeling and jamming mitigation by the use of blind source separation”, 37th IEEE/AIAA International Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2018
Mauro Leonardi, Davide D. Di Fausto, ” Secondary surveillance radar transponders classification by RF fingerprinting”, (2018) Proceedings International Radar Symposium, 2018-June, art. no. 8448244
Mauro Leonardi, Davide Di Fausto, “ADS-B signal signature extraction for intrusion detection in the air traffic surveillance system“, (2018) European Signal Processing Conference, 2018-September, art. no. 8553570, pp. 2564 – 2568
2017
Mauro Leonardi, Emilio Piracci, Gaspare Galati,“ADS-B jamming mitigation: A solution based on a multichannel receiver”, (2017) IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 32 (11), art. no. 8171272, pp. 44 – 51
Mauro Leonardi, Luca Di Gregorio, Davide Di Fausto, “Air traffic security: Aircraft classification using ADS-B message’s phase-pattern”, (2017) Aerospace, 4 (4), art. no. 51
Gaspare Galati, Paula Carta, Mauro Leonardi, Francesco Madia, Rossella Stallone, Sftefania Franco, “The d-Radar: A bistatic system based on conformal arrays” , (2017) International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 9 (3), pp. 551 – 565
2015
Ivan A. Mantilla-Gaviria, Mauro Leonardi, Gaspare Galati, Juan Vincente Balbastre-Tejedor, “Localization algorithms for multilateration (MLAT) systems in airport surface surveillance”, (2015) Signal, Image and Video Processing, 9 (7), pp. 1549 – 1558
2014
Gaspara Galati, Mauro Leonardi, Emilio Giuseppe Piracci, Nicolas Petrochilos, Soumen Samanta , “The transponder data recorder: Implementation and first results”, (2014) IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 29 (2), art. no. 6778534, pp. 6 – 13
Antonio Di Fonzo, Mauro Leonardi, Gaspare Galati, Paola Madonna, Luca Sfarzo, “Software-Defined-Radio techniques against jammers for in car GNSS navigation”, (2014) 2014 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace, MetroAeroSpace 2014 – Proceedings, art. no. 6865942, pp. 320 – 325
Mauro Leonardi, Emilio Piracci, Gaspare Galati, ” ADS-B vulnerability to low cost jammers: Risk assessment and possible solutions”, (2014) 2014 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications – Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles, TIWDC/ESAV 2014, art. no. 6945445, pp. 41 – 46
Ivan Antonio Mantilla-Gaviria, Mauro Leonardi, Gaspare Galati, Juan Vincente Balbastre- Tejedor, “Time-difference-of-arrival regularised location estimator for multilateration systems”, (2014) IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, 8 (5), pp. 479 – 489
2013
Ivan A. Mantilla-Gaviria, Mauro Leonardi, Juan Vincente Balbastre Tejedor, Elias de los Reyes, “On the application of singular value decomposition and Tikhonov regularization to ill-posed problems in hyperbolic passive location”, (2013) Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 57 (7-8), pp. 1999 – 2008
2012
Sabina Viola, Michele Mascolo, Paola Madonna, Luca Sfarzo, Mauro Leonardi, ” Design and implementation of a signle-frequency L1 multiconstellation GPS/EGNOSS/GLONASS SDR receiver with NIORAIM FDE integrity”, 25th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2012, ION GNSS 2012, Nashville, Tennesse, September 17-21 2012
Gaspere Galati, Mauro Leonardi, Mauro Tosti, Mantilla-Gaviria I.A., “Lower bounds of accuracy for enhanced mode-S distributed sensor networks”,IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, Volume 6, Issue 3
Ivan A. Mantilla-Gaviria, Mauro Leonardi, Gaspare Galati, Juan Vincente Balbastre-Tejedor, Elias De Los Reyes Davó, “Efficient location strategy for airport surveillance using Mode-S multilateration systems”, (2012) International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 4 (2), pp. 209 – 216
Ivan.A Mantilla-Gaviria, Mauro Leonardi, Gaspare Galati, Juan Vincente Balbastre-Tejedor, Elias De Los Reyes Davó, “An effective procedure to design the layout of standard and enhanced mode-S multilateration systems for airport surveillance”, (2012) International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 4 (2), pp. 199 – 207
2011
Mantilla-G I.A., Juan Vincente Balbastre.T , Elias De Los Reyes , Mauro Leonardi, Gaspare Galati, “Strategies to design and deploy Mode-S multilateration systems”, (2011) 2011 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications
Giuseppe Di Massa, Sandra Costanza, Antonio Borgia, Ignazio Venneri, Gaspare Galati, Mauro Leonardi, Emilio Giuseppe Piracci, “Multiple sources discrimination by array processing“, (2011) Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011, art. no. 5782507, pp. 620 – 622
Mauro Leonardi, Silvio Spinelli, Gaspare Galati, “ADS-B/MLAT surveillance system from high altitude platform systems”, (2011) 2011 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications – Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles, ESAV’11, art. no. 6060981, pp. 153 – 158
Ivan.A Mantilla-G, Juan Vincente Balbastre Trajedor, Elias De Los Reyes, Mauro Leonardi, Gaspare Galati, “Improvement of multilateration (MLAT) accuracy and convergence for airport surveillance”, (2011) 2011 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications – Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles, ESAV’11, art. no. 6060986, pp. 185 – 190
Gaspare Galati, Mauro Leonardi, Emilio Giuseppe Piracci, Nicolas Petrochilos, Soumen Samanta, “The transponder data recorder: First implementation and applications”, (2011) 2011 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications – Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles, ESAV’11, art. no. 6060980, pp. 147 – 151
2010
Gaspare Galati, Mauro Leonardi, Alessio Cavallin, Gabriele Pavan, ” Airport surveillance processing chain for high resolution radar”, (2010) IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 46 (3), art. no. 5545207, pp. 1522 – 1533
2009
Mauro Leonardi, Adolf Mathias, Gaspare Galati, “Two efficient localization algorithms for multilateration“, (2009) International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 1 (3), pp. 223 – 229
Mauro Leonardi, Adolf Mathias, Gaspare Galati,“Closed form localization algorithms for mode S wide area multilateration”, (2009) European Microwave Week 2009, EuMW 2009: Science, Progress and Quality at Radiofrequencies, Conference Proceedings – 6th European Radar Conference, EuRAD 2009, art. no. 5307157, pp. 73 – 76
2008
Mauro Leonardi, Gaspere Galati, Maurizio Gasbarra, “Multiple faults integrity algorithm for mode s multilateration systems”, 2008 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications – Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles, TIWDC/ESAV 2008, Capri, Italy, September 3-5 2008
Adolf Mathias, Mauro Leonardi, Gaspare Galati, “An efficient multilateration algorithm”, (2008) 2008 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications – Proceedings of Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles, TIWDC/ESAV 2008, art. no. 4649038
Gaspare Galati, Mauro Leonardi, Mauro Tosti, “Multilateration (Local and Wide area) as a distributed sensor system: Lower bounds of accuracy”, (2008) 2008 5th European Radar Conference Proceedings, EuRAD 2008, art. no. 4760835, pp. 196 – 199
2007
Gaspare Galati, Mauro Leonardi, Di Giampaolo Emidio , Sara Barbera, ” Multipath evaluation for multilateration systems in complex airport scenario“, (2007) Proceedings International Radar Symposium, 2007-January
Gaspare Galati, Mauro Leonardi, E.De pofi, “Target heading for surface radar applications: Algorithms and field results”, (2007) Proceedings International Radar Symposium, 2007-January
2006
Gaspare Galati, Mauro Leonardi, C. Cosenza, F. Lo zito, F. Gottifredi, “Evaluation of the interferences of GNSS (Galileo/GPS) signals on air traffic control radar and wind profiler radar”, (2006) 2nd Microwave and Radar Week in Poland – International Radar Symposium, IRS 2006, Proceedings, art. no. 4338038
Letizia Lo Lo Presti, Beatrice Motella, Mauro Leonardi, ” A technique of interference monitoring in GNSS applications, based on ACF and prony methods”, (2006) Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation – 19th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division, ION GNSS 2006, 4, pp. 2241 – 2250
2005
Gaspare Galati, Mauro Leonardi, Pierfrancesco Magarò, Valerio Paciucci, “Wide area surveillance using SSR mode S multilateration: Advantages and limitations”, (2005) EURAD 2005 Conference Proceedings – 2nd European Radar Conference, 2005, art. no. 1605606, pp. 225 – 229
2004
Gaspare Galati, Maurizio Gasbarra, Mauro Leonardi, ” Multilateration algorithms for time of arrival estimation and target location in airports”, (2004) Conference Proceedings – 1st European Radar Conference, EuRAD, pp. 293 – 296