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Christian Conoscenti

Christian Conoscenti

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Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
4164
World Ranking
8356
National Ranking
322

Overview

Christian Conoscenti is affiliated with the University of Palermo in Italy and has a focus on environmental science, particularly within the fields of soil science, management, monitoring, policy and law, global and planetary change, ecology, and water science and technology. Their research spans a significant body of work related to soil erosion and sediment transport, landslides and related hazards, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and sediment transport processes, hydrology and watershed management studies, fire effects on ecosystems, and tree root and stability studies.

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Predicting gully occurrence at watershed scale: Comparing topographic indices and multivariate statistical models, 2020, Geomorphology
  • Optimal slope units partitioning in landslide susceptibility mapping, 2020, Journal of Maps
  • Measuring, modelling and managing gully erosion at large scales: A state of the art, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Evaluation of multi-hazard map produced using MaxEnt machine learning technique, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Application of the group method of data handling (GMDH) approach for landslide susceptibility zonation using readily available spatial covariates, 2021, CATENA

Frequent publication venues for Christian Conoscenti include:

  • CATENA
  • Geomorphology
  • Remote Sensing
  • Soil Erosion Research Under a Changing Climate, January 8-13, 2023, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, USA
  • Earth-Science Reviews

They regularly collaborate with co-authors including Edoardo Rotigliano, Chiara Martinello, Chiara Cappadonia, Claudio Mercurio, and Laura Paola Calderón-Cucunuba.

The areas of focus reflected in their work highlight a multidisciplinary approach that addresses environmental challenges through the integration of soil science, hydrology, risk assessment, and ecosystem studies. Their studies involve both empirical measurement and modelling to understand and manage soil erosion, landslides, and other geomorphological and hydrological processes.

Christian Conoscenti's research contributes to the understanding of natural hazard mapping and susceptibility, using various techniques including machine learning and statistical models. This underscores a methodological diversity aimed at improving predictive capacities and management strategies related to environmental hazards.

Best Publications

  • Gully erosion susceptibility assessment by means of GIS-based logistic regression: a case of Sicily (Italy)

    Christian Conoscenti;Silvia Angileri;Chiara Cappadonia;Edoardo Rotigliano

  • A comparison of statistical methods and multi-criteria decision making to map flood hazard susceptibility in Northern Iran

    Alireza Arabameri;Khalil Rezaei;Artemi Cerdà;Christian Conoscenti

  • Measuring, modelling and managing gully erosion at large scales: A state of the art

    Matthias Vanmaercke;Matthias Vanmaercke;Panos Panagos;Tom Vanwalleghem;Antonio Hayas

  • Binary logistic regression versus stochastic gradient boosted decision trees in assessing landslide susceptibility for multiple-occurring landslide events: application to the 2009 storm event in Messina (Sicily, southern Italy)

    L. Lombardo;L. Lombardo;M. Cama;C. Conoscenti;M. Märker;M. Märker

  • Assessing the performance of GIS- based machine learning models with different accuracy measures for determining susceptibility to gully erosion.

    Younes Garosi;Mohsen Sheklabadi;Christian Conoscenti;Hamid Reza Pourghasemi

  • Using topographical attributes to evaluate gully erosion proneness (susceptibility) in two mediterranean basins: advantages and limitations

    Álvaro Gómez-Gutiérrez;Christian Conoscenti;Silvia Eleonora Angileri;Edoardo Rotigliano

  • Comparison of differences in resolution and sources of controlling factors for gully erosion susceptibility mapping

    Younes Garosi;Mohsen Sheklabadi;Hamid Reza Pourghasemi;Ali Asghar Besalatpour

  • GIS analysis to assess landslide susceptibility in a fluvial basin of NW Sicily (Italy)

    Christian Conoscenti;Cipriano Di Maggio;Edoardo Rotigliano

  • Assessment of susceptibility to earth-flow landslide using logistic regression and multivariate adaptive regression splines: A case of the Belice River basin (western Sicily, Italy)

    Christian Conoscenti;Marilena Ciaccio;Nathalie Almaru Caraballo-Arias;Álvaro Gómez-Gutiérrez

  • A GIS-based approach for gully erosion susceptibility modelling: a test in Sicily, Italy

    Christian Conoscenti;Valerio Agnesi;Silvia Angileri;Chiara Cappadonia

  • Exploring the effect of absence selection on landslide susceptibility models: A case study in Sicily, Italy

    Christian Conoscenti;Edoardo Rotigliano;Mariaelena Cama;Nathalie Almaru Caraballo-Arias

  • Evaluation of multi-hazard map produced using MaxEnt machine learning technique

    Narges Javidan;Ataollah Kavian;Hamid Reza Pourghasemi;Christian Conoscenti

  • Exploring relationships between grid cell size and accuracy for debris-flow susceptibility models: a test in the Giampilieri catchment (Sicily, Italy)

    M. Cama;C. Conoscenti;L. Lombardo;L. Lombardo;E. Rotigliano

  • Soil erosion susceptibility assessment and validation using a geostatistical multivariate approach: a test in Southern Sicily

    Christian Conoscenti;Cipriano Di Maggio;Edoardo Rotigliano

  • Improving transferability strategies for debris flow susceptibility assessment: Application to the Saponara and Itala catchments (Messina, Italy)

    M. Cama;M. Cama;Luigi Lombardo;Luigi Lombardo;C. Conoscenti;E. Rotigliano

  • PMT: New analytical framework for automated evaluation of geo-environmental modelling approaches.

    Omid Rahmati;Aiding Kornejady;Mahmood Samadi;Ravinesh C. Deo

  • Water erosion susceptibility mapping by applying Stochastic Gradient Treeboost to the Imera Meridionale River Basin (Sicily, Italy)

    Silvia Eleonora Angileri;Christian Conoscenti;Volker Hochschild;Michael Märker;Michael Märker

  • Forward logistic regression for earth-flow landslide susceptibility assessment in the Platani river basin (southern Sicily, Italy)

    Dario Costanzo;José Chacón;Christian Conoscenti;Clemente Irigaray

  • Assessment of Gully Erosion Susceptibility Using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines and Accounting for Terrain Connectivity

    Christian Conoscenti;Valerio Agnesi;Mariaelena Cama;Nathalie Alamaru Caraballo-Arias

  • A multidisciplinary approach to the evaluation of the mechanism that triggered the Cerda landslide (Sicily, Italy)

    Valerio Agnesi;Marco Camarda;Christian Conoscenti;Cipriano Di Maggio

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi Lombardo
Luigi Lombardo University of Twente
Vito Ferro
Vito Ferro University of Palermo
Hamid Reza Pourghasemi
Hamid Reza Pourghasemi Shiraz University
Kristof Van Oost
Kristof Van Oost Université Catholique de Louvain
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
Artemi Cerdà
Artemi Cerdà University of Valencia
Biswajeet Pradhan
Biswajeet Pradhan University of Technology Sydney
Dieu Tien Bui
Dieu Tien Bui University of South-Eastern Norway
Pasquale Borrelli
Pasquale Borrelli Roma Tre University
Omid Rahmati
Omid Rahmati Agricultural Research Education And Extention Organization

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