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Gabriele Buttafuoco is a researcher affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their work is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Environmental Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Soil Science, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The research topics that Buttafuoco has extensively covered include:

  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

Buttafuoco has contributed to several publications across notable scientific venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Environmental Earth Sciences
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Land

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Buttafuoco include:

  • "Interplay between soil formation and geomorphic processes along a soil catena in a Mediterranean mountain landscape: an integrated pedological and geophysical approach," 2020, Environmental Earth Sciences
  • "Assessment and Mapping of Soil Salinization Risk in an Egyptian Field Using a Probabilistic Approach," 2020, Agronomy
  • "Do we speak one language on the way to sustainable soil management in Europe? A terminology check via an EU -wide survey," 2024, European Journal of Soil Science
  • "Taking into account change of support when merging heterogeneous spatial data for field partition," 2021, Precision Agriculture
  • "Improving Mean Annual Precipitation Prediction Incorporating Elevation and Taking into Account Support Size," 2021, Water

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Buttafuoco include:

  • Annamaria Castrignanò
  • S. Asins
  • Massimo Conforti
  • Cecilie Foldal
  • Sylwia Pindral

Buttafuoco has also contributed to academic book publications, including titles published by Elsevier BV and KU Leuven. Notable works include:

  • "Agricultural Internet of Things and Decision Support for Precision Smart Farming," 2020
  • "The state of soils in Europe: Fully evidenced, spatially organised assessment of the pressures driving soil degradation," 2024

Best Publications

  • Evaluating the capability of the Sentinel 2 data for soil organic carbon prediction in croplands

    Fabio Castaldi;Andreas Hueni;Sabine Chabrillat;Kathrin Ward

  • Studying the relationship between water-induced soil erosion and soil organic matter using Vis–NIR spectroscopy and geomorphological analysis: A case study in southern Italy

    Massimo Conforti;Gabriele Buttafuoco;Antonio P. Leone;Pietro P.C. Aucelli

  • Laboratory-based Vis–NIR spectroscopy and partial least square regression with spatially correlated errors for predicting spatial variation of soil organic matter content

    Massimo Conforti;Annamaria Castrignanò;Gaetano Robustelli;Fabio Scarciglia

  • Effect of calibration set size on prediction at local scale of soil carbon by Vis-NIR spectroscopy

    Federica Lucà;Massimo Conforti;Annamaria Castrignanò;Annamaria Castrignanò;Giorgio Matteucci

  • Stochastic analysis to assess the spatial distribution of groundwater nitrate concentrations in the Po catchment (Italy).

    Sergio Cinnirella;Gabriele Buttafuoco;Nicola Pirrone

  • Geostatistical Stochastic Simulation of Soil Water Content in a Forested Area of South Italy

    A. Castrignanò;G. Buttafuoco

  • Assessing spatial uncertainty in mapping soil erodibility factor using geostatistical stochastic simulation

    G. Buttafuoco;M. Conforti;P. P. C. Aucelli;G. Robustelli

  • Integrating geophysical and geostatistical techniques to map the spatial variation of clay

    Daniela De Benedetto;Annamaria Castrignano;Donato Sollitto;Francesca Modugno

  • Soil carbon stock in relation to soil properties and landscape position in a forest ecosystem of southern Italy (Calabria region)

    Massimo Conforti;Federica Lucà;Fabio Scarciglia;Giorgio Matteucci

  • Analyses of Drought Events in Calabria (Southern Italy) Using Standardized Precipitation Index

    G. Buttafuoco;T. Caloiero;R. Coscarelli

  • Spatial and temporal distribution of precipitation in a Mediterranean area (southern Italy)

    Antonia Longobardi;Gabriele Buttafuoco;Tommaso Caloiero;Roberto Coscarelli

  • Studying the spatial structure evolution of soil water content using multivariate geostatistics

    G. Buttafuoco;A. Castrignanò;E. Busoni;A.C. Dimase

  • Using laboratory Vis-NIR spectroscopy for monitoring some forest soil properties

    Massimo Conforti;Giorgio Matteucci;Gabriele Buttafuoco

  • Mapping Soil Gas Radon Concentration: A Comparative Study of Geostatistical Methods

    Gabriele Buttafuoco;Adalisa Tallarico;Giovanni Falcone

  • A geostatistical Vis-NIR spectroscopy index to assess the incipient soil salinization in the Neretva River valley, Croatia

    Monika Zovko;Davor Romić;Claudio Colombo;Erika Di Iorio

  • A Combined Approach of Sensor Data Fusion and Multivariate Geostatistics for Delineation of Homogeneous Zones in an Agricultural Field.

    Annamaria Castrignanò;Gabriele Buttafuoco;Ruggiero Quarto;Carolina Vitti

  • Geochemical sources of vanadium in soils: Evidences in a southern Italy area

    Ilaria Guagliardi;Ilaria Guagliardi;Domenico Cicchella;Rosanna De Rosa;Nicola Ricca

  • Effects of source rocks, soil features and climate on natural gamma radioactivity in the Crati valley (Calabria, Southern Italy).

    Ilaria Guagliardi;Natalia Rovella;Carmine Apollaro;Andrea Bloise

  • A geostatistical sensor data fusion approach for delineating homogeneous management zones in Precision Agriculture

    A. Castrignanò;G. Buttafuoco;R. Quarto;D. Parisi

  • Complementary techniques to assess physical properties of a fine soil irrigated with saline water

    Angelo Basile;Gabriele Buttafuoco;Giacomo Mele;Anna Tedeschi

  • A geostatistical approach for mapping and uncertainty assessment of geogenic radon gas in soil in an area of southern Italy.

    Gabriele Buttafuoco;Adalisa Tallarico;Giovanni Falcone;Ilaria Guagliardi

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of the mean annual precipitation at decadal time scale in southern Italy (Calabria region)

    Gabriele Buttafuoco;Tommaso Caloiero;Roberto Coscarelli

  • Spatial and temporal characterization of climate at regional scale using homogeneous monthly precipitation and air temperature data: an application in Calabria (southern Italy)

    T. Caloiero;G. Buttafuoco;R. Coscarelli;E. Ferrari

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgio Matteucci
Giorgio Matteucci National Research Council (CNR)
Rosanna De Rosa
Rosanna De Rosa University of Calabria
Domenico Cicchella
Domenico Cicchella University of Sannio
Carmine Apollaro
Carmine Apollaro University of Calabria
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Cristiano Ballabio
Cristiano Ballabio University of Milan
Francesco Muto
Francesco Muto University of Calabria
Bas van Wesemael
Bas van Wesemael Université Catholique de Louvain
Salvatore Critelli
Salvatore Critelli University of Calabria
Katrin Meusburger
Katrin Meusburger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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