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Luigi Boschetti is affiliated with the University of Idaho in the United States and specializes in environmental science, with a focus on global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and ecology. Their research concentrates on understanding fire effects on ecosystems, remote sensing technologies, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Their work extensively utilizes remote sensing and LiDAR applications, particularly in relation to wildfire dynamics and ecosystem monitoring. Key research topics include fire detection and safety systems, forest ecology and management, plant water relations, and carbon dynamics.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Andrew T. Hudak, David P. Roy, Louis Giglio, Aaron M. Sparks, and Nuria Sánchez-López.

Luigi Boschetti has published multiple studies in prominent scientific venues such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, International Journal of Wildland Fire, Science of Remote Sensing, and Clinica Chimica Acta.

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • New estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning and peat fires using MODIS Collection 6 burned areas, 2020, Climatic Change
  • Deep learning high resolution burned area mapping by transfer learning from Landsat-8 to PlanetScope, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Estimating wildfire fuel consumption with multitemporal airborne laser scanning data and demonstrating linkage with MODIS-derived fire radiative energy, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

The main fields of study of their research are rooted in environmental science, with a significant number of publications addressing global and planetary change. Their contributions also extend into environmental engineering and ecology, supporting a broad understanding of environmental processes impacted by fire and atmospheric dynamics.

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire Detection and Safety Systems

Luigi Boschetti's research outputs contribute to scientific knowledge on fire behavior, ecosystem responses, and advancements in remote sensing technology to monitor environmental changes. This body of work supports efforts to measure and manage the ecological impact of fires and the related atmospheric emissions on a global scale.

Best Publications

  • The Collection 6 MODIS burned area mapping algorithm and product

    Louis Giglio;Luigi Boschetti;David P. Roy;Michael L. Humber

  • The collection 5 MODIS burned area product — Global evaluation by comparison with the MODIS active fire product

    David P. Roy;L. Boschetti;C. O. Justice;J. Ju

  • Remote sensing of fire severity: assessing the performance of the normalized burn ratio

    D.P. Roy;L. Boschetti;S.N. Trigg

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

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  • Global patterns of interannual climate-fire relationships.

    John T. Abatzoglou;A. Park Williams;Luigi Boschetti;Maria Zubkova

  • Vegetation burning in the year 2000: Global burned area estimates from SPOT VEGETATION data

    Kevin Tansey;Jean‐Marie Grégoire;Daniela Stroppiana;Adélia Sousa

  • Southern Africa Validation of the MODIS, L3JRC, and GlobCarbon Burned-Area Products

    D.P. Roy;L. Boschetti

  • Southern African Fire Regimes as Revealed by Remote Sensing

    S. Archibald;S. Archibald;R. J. Scholes;R. J. Scholes;David P. Roy;G. Roberts

  • Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 burned area mapping - A combined sensor multi-temporal change detection approach

    David P. Roy;Haiyan Huang;Luigi Boschetti;Louis Giglio

  • Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements

    Martin J. Wooster;Gareth J. Roberts;Louis Giglio;David Roy

  • Analysis of the conflict between omission and commission in low spatial resolution dichotomic thematic products: The Pareto Boundary

    Luigi Boschetti;Stéphane P Flasse;Pietro A Brivio

  • The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities.

    Alistair M. S. Smith;Crystal A. Kolden;Travis B. Paveglio;Mark A. Cochrane

  • Global validation of the collection 6 MODIS burned area product.

    Luigi Boschetti;David P. Roy;Louis Giglio;Haiyan Huang

  • MODIS–Landsat fusion for large area 30m burned area mapping

    Luigi Boschetti;David P. Roy;Christopher O. Justice;Michael L. Humber

  • Biomass burning fuel consumption rates: a field measurement database

    T.T. van Leeuwen;T.T. van Leeuwen;G.R. van der Werf;A.A. Hoffmann;R.G. Detmers;R.G. Detmers

  • Separability Analysis of Sentinel-2A Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) Data for Burned Area Discrimination

    Haiyan Huang;David P. Roy;Luigi Boschetti;Hankui K. Zhang

  • A method for extracting burned areas from Landsat TM/ETM+ images by soft aggregation of multiple Spectral Indices and a region growing algorithm

    D. Stroppiana;G. Bordogna;P. Carrara;M. Boschetti

  • Remote sensing the vulnerability of vegetation in natural terrestrial ecosystems

    Alistair M.S. Smith;Crystal A. Kolden;Wade T. Tinkham;Alan F. Talhelm

  • Lessons to be learned from the comparison of three satellite‐derived biomass burning products

    L. Boschetti;H. D. Eva;P. A. Brivio;J. M. Grégoire

  • Spatial and temporal intercomparison of four global burned area products

    Michael L. Humber;Luigi Boschetti;Louis Giglio;Christopher O. Justice

  • MODIS-derived EVI, NDVI and WDRVI time series to estimate phenological metrics in French deciduous forests

    S. Testa;K. Soudani;L. Boschetti;E. Borgogno Mondino

  • A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation.: GOFC-GOLD Report version COP18-1

    Frederic Achard;Sandra Brown;Michael Brady;Ruth DeFries

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Roy
David P. Roy Michigan State University
Pietro Alessandro Brivio
Pietro Alessandro Brivio National Research Council (CNR)
Christopher O. Justice
Christopher O. Justice University of Maryland, College Park
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
Alistair M. S. Smith
Alistair M. S. Smith University of Idaho
Louis Giglio
Louis Giglio University of Maryland, College Park
Crystal A. Kolden
Crystal A. Kolden University of California, Merced
Daniela Stroppiana
Daniela Stroppiana National Research Council (CNR)
Daniel M. Johnson
Daniel M. Johnson University of Georgia
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced

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