A5043388717- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Climate variability and models
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
- Geological Modeling and Analysis
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Landslides and related hazards
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Research Data Management Practices
Mundipharma (Germany)
2016-2025
Fondazione Edmund Mach
2008-2016
Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive
2011
Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare
2002-2007
Leibniz University of Applied Sciences
2007
Construction Technologies Institute
2003
Despite improvements in prevention, diagnosis and treatment, Lyme borreliosis (LB) is still the most common arthropod-borne disease temperate regions of northern hemisphere, with risk infection associated occupation (e.g. forestry work) certain outdoor recreational activities mushroom collecting). In Europe, LB caused by one or more pathogenic European genospecies spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, mainly transmitted tick Ixodes ricinus. Recent surveys show that overall prevalence...
Continuous monitoring of extreme environments, such as the European Alps, is hampered by sparse and/or irregular distribution meteorological stations, difficulties in performing ground surveys and complexity interpolating existing station data. Remotely sensed Land Surface Temperature (LST) therefore major interest for a variety environmental ecological applications. But while MODIS LST data from Terra Aqua satellites are aimed at closing gap between demand availability, clouds other...
Ungulate populations exhibiting partial migration present a unique opportunity to explore the causes of general phenomenon migration. The European roe deer Capreolus capreolus is particularly suited for such studies due wide distribution range and high level ecological plasticity. In this study we undertook comparative analysis GPS location data from representative set ecosystems available within EURODEER collaborative project. We aimed at evaluating factors affecting tactic (i.e....
Abstract Aim We aim to report what hyperspectral remote sensing can offer for invasion ecologists and review recent progress made in plant research using sensing. Location United States. Methods the utility of detecting, mapping predicting spatial spread invasive species. cover a range topics including trade‐off between spectral resolutions classification accuracy, benefits time series incorporate phenology species distribution, potential biochemical physiological properties reflectance...
Background The Western Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus often causes devastating or lethal disease. In Europe, the number of human TBE cases has increased dramatically over last decade, risk areas are expanding and new foci being discovered every year. early localisation identification main factors associated with disease emergence represent a priority for public health community. Although socio-economic parameters have been suggested to explain upsurges in eastern principal driving...
Temperature is a main driver for most ecological processes, and temperature time series provide key environmental indicators various applications research fields. High spatial temporal resolutions are crucial detailed analyses in fields of research. A disadvantage data obtained by satellites the occurrence gaps that must be reconstructed. Here, we present new method to reconstruct high-resolution land surface (LST) at continental scale gaining 250-m resolution four daily values per pixel....
Background The tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), vector of several emerging diseases, is expanding into more northerly latitudes as well higher altitudes in northern Italy. Changes the pattern distribution may affect potential spread infectious diseases transmitted by this species Europe. Therefore, predicting suitable areas future establishment and essential for planning early prevention control strategies. Methodology/Principal Findings To identify currently most occurrence Province...
To date, the processing of wildlife location data has relied on a diversity software and file formats. Data management following spatial statistical analyses were undertaken in multiple steps, involving many time-consuming importing/exporting phases. Recent technological advancements tracking systems have made large, continuous, high-frequency datasets behavioural available, such as those derived from global positioning system (GPS) other animal-attached sensor devices. These can be further...
Abstract Biodiversity includes multiscalar and multitemporal structures processes, with different levels of functional organization, from genetic to ecosystemic levels. One the mostly used methods infer biodiversity is based on taxonomic approaches community ecology theories. However, gathering extensive data in field difficult due logistic problems, especially when aiming at modelling changes space time, which assumes statistically sound sampling schemes. In this context, airborne or...
West Nile Virus (WNV) is a globally important mosquito borne virus, with significant implications for human and animal health. The emergence spread of new lineages, increased pathogenicity, the cause escalating public health concern. Pinpointing environmental conditions that favour WNV circulation transmission to humans challenging, due both complexity its biological cycle, under-diagnosis reporting epidemiological data. Here, we used remote sensing GIS enable collation multiple types data...
Understanding the causes and effects of species invasions is a priority in ecology conservation biology. One crucial steps evaluating impact invasive to map changes their actual potential distribution relative abundance across wide region over an appropriate time span. While direct indirect remote sensing approaches have long been used assess invasion plant species, animals mainly based on methods that rely environmental proxies conditions suitable for colonization by particular species. The...
At present, accessing and processing Earth Observation (EO) data on different cloud platforms requires users to exercise distinct communication strategies as each backend platform is designed differently. The openEO API (Application Programming Interface) standardises EO-related contracts between local clients (R, Python, JavaScript) service providers regarding access processing, simplifying their direct comparability. Independent of the providers’ storage system, mimics functionalities a...
The continuing spread of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus in Europe is increasing public health concern due to potential risk new outbreaks exotic vector-borne diseases that this species can transmit as competent vector. We predicted most favorable areas for a short term invasion Ae. north-eastern Italy using reconstructed daily satellite data time series (MODIS Land Surface Temperature maps, LST). more than 11,000 MODIS LST maps period 2001-09 (i.e. performed spatial and temporal...
West Nile Virus (WNV) is an emerging global health threat. Transmission risk strongly related to the abundance of mosquito vectors, typically Culex pipiens in Europe. Early-warning predictors population dynamics would therefore help guide entomological surveillance and thereby facilitate early warnings transmission risk. We analysed 11-year time series (2001 2011) Cx. captures from Piedmont region north-western Italy determine principal drivers dynamics. Linear mixed models were implemented...