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View article: Building a framework for a synoptic overview of drought
Building a framework for a synoptic overview of drought Open
Drought is a complex phenomenon with multifactorial impacts, requiring a multiscale approach for effective understanding and management. This study presents an innovative operational framework, "Drought Scan," designed to deepen drought un…
View article: Prediction of Yield Spatial Variability within Vineyard Based on DIGIVIT Mobile App
Prediction of Yield Spatial Variability within Vineyard Based on DIGIVIT Mobile App Open
The viticulture sector, spanning over 7.3 million hectares worldwide, plays a crucial economic role but faces challenges such as labor shortages, rising production costs, market competition, and climate change stresses. Addressing these is…
View article: GranoScan: an AI-powered mobile app for in-field identification of biotic threats of wheat
GranoScan: an AI-powered mobile app for in-field identification of biotic threats of wheat Open
Capitalizing on the widespread adoption of smartphones among farmers and the application of artificial intelligence in computer vision, a variety of mobile applications have recently emerged in the agricultural domain. This paper introduce…
View article: Building an operational drought framework 
Building an operational drought framework  Open
As the frequency of drought events continues to rise, there is an urgent demand for swift adaptive capabilities, coupled with a growing scientific knowledge base to effectively develop and implement them. To address this need, effective Cl…
View article: Bias-adjusted SPI seasonal forecasts for the Euro-Mediterranean domain
Bias-adjusted SPI seasonal forecasts for the Euro-Mediterranean domain Open
Water management received increasing attention in the last decades since it is a key to coping with climate change and global warming. Within this framework, water scarcity will be one of the main issues to be addressed by humans, mainly b…
View article: A phenotyping weeds image dataset for open scientific research
A phenotyping weeds image dataset for open scientific research Open
This in-house-built image dataset consists of 10810 weed images captured through a dedicated phenotyping activity in quasi-field conditions. The targets are seven of the most widespread and hard-to-control weeds in wheat (but also in other…
View article: A phenotyping weeds image dataset for open scientific research
A phenotyping weeds image dataset for open scientific research Open
This in-house-built image dataset consists of 10810 weed images captured through a dedicated phenotyping activity in quasi-field conditions. The targets are seven of the most widespread and hard-to-control weeds in wheat (but also in other…
View article: Moving climate seasonal forecasts information from useful to usable for early within-season predictions of durum wheat yield
Moving climate seasonal forecasts information from useful to usable for early within-season predictions of durum wheat yield Open
Crop models fed by seasonal forecasts to deliver yield forecasts are becoming a valuable tool to tackle food production shocks and food price spikes triggered by climate change and extreme events. However, to what extent seasonal climate p…
View article: Improving plant disease classification by adaptive minimal ensembling
Improving plant disease classification by adaptive minimal ensembling Open
A novel method for improving plant disease classification, a challenging and time-consuming process, is proposed. First, using as baseline EfficientNet, a recent and advanced family of architectures having an excellent accuracy/complexity …
View article: Hydrological Web Services for Operational Flood Risk Monitoring and Forecasting at Local Scale in Niger
Hydrological Web Services for Operational Flood Risk Monitoring and Forecasting at Local Scale in Niger Open
Emerging hydrological services provide stakeholders and political authorities with useful and reliable information to support the decision-making process and develop flood risk management strategies. Most of these services adopt the paradi…
View article: Setting-up an hydrometeorological early warning service in Niger: lessons learnt on the co-development approach 
Setting-up an hydrometeorological early warning service in Niger: lessons learnt on the co-development approach  Open
<p>During the last 20 years, floods have become a major hazard in West Africa, particularly in the Sahelian belt, affecting livelihoods, infrastructure and production systems, and hence heavily impacting on sustainable development. T…
View article: Recent Changes in Hydroclimatic Patterns over Medium Niger River Basins at the Origin of the 2020 Flood in Niamey (Niger)
Recent Changes in Hydroclimatic Patterns over Medium Niger River Basins at the Origin of the 2020 Flood in Niamey (Niger) Open
Niamey, the capital of Niger, is particularly prone to floods, since it is on the banks of the Niger River, which in its middle basin has two flood peaks: one in summer (the red flood) and one in winter (the black flood). In 2020, the Nige…
View article: AgroShadow: A New Sentinel-2 Cloud Shadow Detection Tool for Precision Agriculture
AgroShadow: A New Sentinel-2 Cloud Shadow Detection Tool for Precision Agriculture Open
Remote sensing for precision agriculture has been strongly fostered by the launches of the European Space Agency Sentinel-2 optical imaging constellation, enabling both academic and private services for redirecting farmers towards a more p…
View article: Downscaling Regional Hydrological Forecast for Operational Use in Local Early Warning: HYPE Models in the Sirba River
Downscaling Regional Hydrological Forecast for Operational Use in Local Early Warning: HYPE Models in the Sirba River Open
In the last decades since the dramatic increase in flood frequency and magnitude, floods have become a crucial problem in West Africa. National and international authorities concentrate efforts on developing early warning systems (EWS) to …
View article: A support system for hight-quality urban green management in Tuscany
A support system for hight-quality urban green management in Tuscany Open
Nowadays, several ongoing processes, ranging from climate change to alien pests spreading, make plants protection and green care more complex, forcing the adoption of stringent management rules and changing traditional operational framewor…
View article: Community and Impact Based Early Warning System for Flood Risk Preparedness: The Experience of the Sirba River in Niger
Community and Impact Based Early Warning System for Flood Risk Preparedness: The Experience of the Sirba River in Niger Open
Floods have recently become a major hazard in West Africa (WA) in terms of both their magnitude and frequency. They affect livelihoods, infrastructure and production systems, hence impacting on Sustainable Development (SD). Early Warning S…
View article: n3tmaster/DroughtGWS: DroughtGWS
n3tmaster/DroughtGWS: DroughtGWS Open
Drought SDI - Complete SDI for Drought Monitoring. Supplies web services for interoperability (JAX-RS) and Geo-processing functions for creating indices (VCI, VHI, TCI, SPI, etc). Contents of this repo DDL (PostgreSQL) Geoprocessing routin…
View article: Semi-Automatic Operational Service for Drought Monitoring and Forecasting in the Tuscany Region
Semi-Automatic Operational Service for Drought Monitoring and Forecasting in the Tuscany Region Open
A drought-monitoring and forecasting system developed for the Tuscany region was improved in order to provide a semi-automatic, more detailed, timely and comprehensive operational service for decision making, water authorities, researchers…
View article: An interoperable research data infrastructure to support climate service development
An interoperable research data infrastructure to support climate service development Open
Accessibility, availability, re-use and re-distribution of scientific data are prerequisites to build climate services across Europe. From this perspective the Institute of Biometeorology of the National Research Council (IBIMET-CNR), aimi…
View article: An integrated low-cost road traffic and air pollution monitoring platform for next citizen observatories
An integrated low-cost road traffic and air pollution monitoring platform for next citizen observatories Open
An integrated monitoring platform was developed for real-time monitoring of air pollution and traffic flows in urban areas. The air quality monitoring unit, integrating the "Arduino" open-source technology with low-cost and high-resolution…
View article: Open source geoprocessing tools and meteorological satellite data for crop risk zones monitoring in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open source geoprocessing tools and meteorological satellite data for crop risk zones monitoring in Sub-Saharan Africa Open
In Sub-Saharan Africa analysis tools and models based on meteorological satellites data have been developed within different national and international cooperation initiatives, with the aim of allowing a better monitoring of the cropping s…
View article: Open source geoprocessing tools and meteorological satellite data for crop risk zones monitoring in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open source geoprocessing tools and meteorological satellite data for crop risk zones monitoring in Sub-Saharan Africa Open
In Sub-Saharan Africa analysis tools and models based on meteorological satellites data have been developed within different national and international cooperation initiatives, with the aim of allowing a better monitoring of the cropping s…
View article: Open source geoprocessing tools and meteorological satellite data for crop risk zones monitoring in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open source geoprocessing tools and meteorological satellite data for crop risk zones monitoring in Sub-Saharan Africa Open
In Sub-Saharan Africa analysis tools and models based on meteorological satellites data have been developed within different national and international cooperation initiatives, with the aim of allowing a better monitoring of the cropping s…