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View article: Using remote sensing data within an optimal spatiotemporal model for invasive plant management: the case of Ailanthus altissima in the Alta Murgia National Park
Using remote sensing data within an optimal spatiotemporal model for invasive plant management: the case of Ailanthus altissima in the Alta Murgia National Park Open
View article: Satellite monitoring of bio-fertilizer restoration in olive groves affected by Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca
Satellite monitoring of bio-fertilizer restoration in olive groves affected by Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca Open
View article: Monitoring the effectiveness of a bio-fertilizer restoration technique using multi-resolution satellite and meteo-data: the case of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. Pauca
Monitoring the effectiveness of a bio-fertilizer restoration technique using multi-resolution satellite and meteo-data: the case of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. Pauca Open
Xylella fastidiosa, subsp. pauca (Xfp), has attacked the olive trees in Southern Italy causing severe impacts on the agro-ecosystem services, such as provisioning, regulating and cultural. To reduce both the Xfp cell concentration and the …
View article: A globally relevant change taxonomy and evidence‐based change framework for land monitoring
A globally relevant change taxonomy and evidence‐based change framework for land monitoring Open
A globally relevant and standardized taxonomy and framework for consistently describing land cover change based on evidence is presented, which makes use of structured land cover taxonomies and is underpinned by the Driver‐Pressure‐State‐I…
View article: EO4Migration: The Design of an EO-Based Solution in Support of Migrants’ Inclusion and Social-Cohesion Policies
EO4Migration: The Design of an EO-Based Solution in Support of Migrants’ Inclusion and Social-Cohesion Policies Open
The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the strong potential of Earth-observation (EO) data and techniques in support of migration policies, and to propose actions to fill the existing structural gaps. The work was carried out withi…
View article: Improvement of a Dasymetric Method for Implementing Sustainable Development Goal 11 Indicators at an Intra-Urban Scale
Improvement of a Dasymetric Method for Implementing Sustainable Development Goal 11 Indicators at an Intra-Urban Scale Open
Local and Regional Authorities require indicators at the intra-urban scale to design adequate policies to foster the achievement of the objectives of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11. Updated high-resolution population density and set…
View article: Sentinel-2 Remote Sensed Image Classification with Patchwise Trained ConvNets for Grassland Habitat Discrimination
Sentinel-2 Remote Sensed Image Classification with Patchwise Trained ConvNets for Grassland Habitat Discrimination Open
The present study focuses on the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN or ConvNet) to classify a multi-seasonal dataset of Sentinel-2 images to discriminate four grassland habitats in the “Murgia Alta” protected site. To this end, we c…
View article: A Revised Snow Cover Algorithm to Improve Discrimination between Snow and Clouds: A Case Study in Gran Paradiso National Park
A Revised Snow Cover Algorithm to Improve Discrimination between Snow and Clouds: A Case Study in Gran Paradiso National Park Open
Snow cover plays an important role in biotic and abiotic environmental processes, as well as human activities, on both regional and global scales. Due to the difficulty of in situ data collection in vast and inaccessible areas, the use of …
View article: Assessing the relative importance of managed crops and semi-natural grasslands as foraging habitats for breeding lesser kestrels Falco naumanni in southeastern Italy
Assessing the relative importance of managed crops and semi-natural grasslands as foraging habitats for breeding lesser kestrels Falco naumanni in southeastern Italy Open
Farmland habitats host important populations of several threatened bird species. So far, how to reconcile farmland management with the maintenance of viable populations of these taxa is a major challenge for conservation biology. Southeast…
View article: Intra-Annual Sentinel-2 Time-Series Supporting Grassland Habitat Discrimination
Intra-Annual Sentinel-2 Time-Series Supporting Grassland Habitat Discrimination Open
The present study aims to discriminate four semi-arid grassland habitats in a Mediterranean Natura 2000 site, Southern Italy, involving 6210/E1.263, 62A0/E1.55, 6220/E1.434 and X/E1.61-E1.C2-E1.C4 (according to Annex I of the European Habi…
View article: Knowledge-Based Classification of Grassland Ecosystem Based on Multi-Temporal WorldView-2 Data and FAO-LCCS Taxonomy
Knowledge-Based Classification of Grassland Ecosystem Based on Multi-Temporal WorldView-2 Data and FAO-LCCS Taxonomy Open
Grassland ecosystems can provide a variety of services for humans, such as carbon storage, food production, crop pollination and pest regulation. However, grasslands are today one of the most endangered ecosystems due to land use change, a…
View article: Earth Observation for the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11 Indicators at Local Scale: Monitoring of the Migrant Population Distribution
Earth Observation for the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11 Indicators at Local Scale: Monitoring of the Migrant Population Distribution Open
This study focused on implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 indicators, at local scale, useful in monitoring urban social resilience. For this purpose, the study focused on updating the distribution map of the migrant…
View article: Habitat mapping and change assessment of coastal wetlands by using Sentinel-2 time series and ecological expert knowledge
Habitat mapping and change assessment of coastal wetlands by using Sentinel-2 time series and ecological expert knowledge Open
<p>Coastal wetlands are one of the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. In the Mediterranean Region, wetlands are undergoing rapid changes due to the increasing of human pressures (e.g. land reclamation, water resources exploitation…
View article: Estimating the Vegetation phenology Time of recovery after a critical perturbation from Landsat time series within the frame of a Bayesian Harmonic model
Estimating the Vegetation phenology Time of recovery after a critical perturbation from Landsat time series within the frame of a Bayesian Harmonic model Open
<p>In Murgia Alta National Park the repeated fire perturb the stability of the environment and it s capacity to be a carbon sink. Thanks to the Landsat archive we can observed change in phenology t over the two decade (2000-2019). Un…
View article: Long-term change monitoring of natural grasslands ecosystem in support of SDG 15.3.1
Long-term change monitoring of natural grasslands ecosystem in support of SDG 15.3.1 Open
<p>Assessing and maintaining the conservation of natural and semi-natural grassland ecosystems is one of the most important actions of the Biodiversity Strategy by the European Commission.</p><p>The present study focuses …
View article: Object-Based Similarity Assessment Using Land Cover Meta-Language (LCML): Concept, Challenges, and Implementation
Object-Based Similarity Assessment Using Land Cover Meta-Language (LCML): Concept, Challenges, and Implementation Open
Land cover (LC) is an essential variable for environmental monitoring in many application domains. The detection of changes in LC can support the understanding of environmental dynamics. However, LC legends present a high degree of inconsi…
View article: Montado: grassland change map (2012-2016)
Montado: grassland change map (2012-2016) Open
A binary change map for the class "GRASSLAND" on Montado (Portugal) PA, detected by the Cross Correlation Analysis (CCA) [1,2] algorithm considering at time T1 the layer "GRASSLAND" from COPERNICUS Service layer dated 2012 and at time T2 a…
View article: Montado: grassland change map (2012-2016)
Montado: grassland change map (2012-2016) Open
A binary change map for the class "GRASSLAND" on Montado (Portugal) PA, detected by the Cross Correlation Analysis (CCA) [1,2] algorithm considering at time T1 the layer "GRASSLAND" from COPERNICUS Service layer dated 2012 and at time T2 a…
View article: Murgia Alta: land cover map (2018)
Murgia Alta: land cover map (2018) Open
A land cover map in "Murgia Alta" PA, for 2018, obtained by considering 4 multi-seasonal Sentinel-2 images. A Support Vector machine (SVM) classifier was used for a 13 classes problem. The images were atmospherically corrected. The map was…
View article: Murgia Alta: land cover map (2018)
Murgia Alta: land cover map (2018) Open
A land cover map in "Murgia Alta" PA, for 2018, obtained by considering 4 multi-seasonal Sentinel-2 images. A Support Vector machine (SVM) classifier was used for a 13 classes problem. The images were atmospherically corrected. The map was…
View article: High resolution Sea Surface Wind retrieval over coastal Protected Areas by means of Sentinel-1 data
High resolution Sea Surface Wind retrieval over coastal Protected Areas by means of Sentinel-1 data Open
The algorithm used, i.e. SARWIND LG-Mod ver. v4.01 (see reference below), is aimed at producing the Sea Surface Wind (SSW), i.e. Speed and Direction, from a single co-polarized (VV or HH) SAR image. We used EW (Extended Wide) and IW (Inte…
View article: High resolution Sea Surface Wind retrieval over coastal Protected Areas by means of Sentinel-1 data
High resolution Sea Surface Wind retrieval over coastal Protected Areas by means of Sentinel-1 data Open
The algorithm used, i.e. SARWIND LG-Mod ver. v4.01 (see reference below), is aimed at producing the Sea Surface Wind (SSW), i.e. Speed and Direction, from a single co-polarized (VV or HH) SAR image. We used EW (Extended Wide) and IW (Inte…
View article: Sea surface wind retrieval in coastal areas by means of Sentinel-1 and numerical weather prediction model data
Sea surface wind retrieval in coastal areas by means of Sentinel-1 and numerical weather prediction model data Open
View article: Ailanthus altissima mapping from multi-temporal very high resolution satellite images
Ailanthus altissima mapping from multi-temporal very high resolution satellite images Open
This study presents the results of multi-seasonal WorldView-2 (WV-2) satellite images classification for the mapping of Ailanthus altissima (A. altissima), an invasive plant species thriving in a protected grassland area of Southern Italy.…
View article: Comparing the performance of flat and hierarchical Habitat/Land-Cover classification models in a NATURA 2000 site
Comparing the performance of flat and hierarchical Habitat/Land-Cover classification models in a NATURA 2000 site Open
The increasing need for high quality Habitat/Land-Cover (H/LC) maps has triggered considerable research into novel machine-learning based classification models. In many cases, H/LC classes follow pre‐defined hierarchical classification sch…
View article: Comparing Pixel and Object-Based Approaches to Map an Understorey Invasive Shrub in Tropical Mixed Forests
Comparing Pixel and Object-Based Approaches to Map an Understorey Invasive Shrub in Tropical Mixed Forests Open
The establishment of invasive alien species in varied habitats across the world is now recognized as a genuine threat to the preservation of biodiversity. Specifically, plant invasions in understory tropical forests are detrimental to the …
View article: Analysis of Protected Areas: The Use of Satellite Images for Data Mining within ECOPOTENTIAL
Analysis of Protected Areas: The Use of Satellite Images for Data Mining within ECOPOTENTIAL Open
The EU-funded ECOPOTENTIAL project shall demonstrate, among others, the application potential of satellite images for detailed ecological studies of environmental and ecological protected areas within pre-defined bio-geographical regions o…
View article: Towards Operational Detection of Forest Ecosystem Changes in Protected Areas
Towards Operational Detection of Forest Ecosystem Changes in Protected Areas Open
This paper discusses the application of the Cross-Correlation Analysis (CCA) technique to multi-spatial resolution Earth Observation (EO) data for detecting and quantifying changes in forest ecosystems in two different protected areas, loc…
View article: Definition and application of expert knowledge on vegetation pattern, phenology, and seasonality for habitat mapping, as exemplified in a Mediterranean coastal site
Definition and application of expert knowledge on vegetation pattern, phenology, and seasonality for habitat mapping, as exemplified in a Mediterranean coastal site Open
Habitats are effective indicators of biodiversity. Remote sensing data and techniques are of great utility for their long-term monitoring. Habitat maps can be derived from land cover (LC) maps through rules obtained from expert knowledge a…
View article: Habitat mapping of coastal wetlands using expert knowledge and Earth observation data
Habitat mapping of coastal wetlands using expert knowledge and Earth observation data Open
Summary Long‐term habitat mapping and change detection are essential for the management of coastal wetlands as well as for evaluating the impact of conservation policies. Earth observation ( EO ) data and techniques are a valuable resource…