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Overview

Luigi Lombardo is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands and has an extensive research portfolio focused primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their academic work spans several subfields, including management, monitoring, policy and law; global and planetary change; atmospheric science; mechanical engineering; and ecology.

The main topics covered in Luigi Lombardo's research include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Tree Root and Stability Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis" (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Soil erosion modelling: A bibliometric analysis" (2021), Environmental Research
  • "Landslide susceptibility maps of Italy: Lesson learnt from dealing with multiple landslide types and the uneven spatial distribution of the national inventory" (2022), Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Landslide size matters: A new data-driven, spatial prototype" (2021), Engineering Geology
  • "Spatial modeling of multi-hazard threat to cultural heritage sites" (2020), Engineering Geology

Frequent co-authors in Lombardo's research include:

  • Hakan Tanyaş
  • Ashok Dahal
  • C.J. van Westen
  • Raphaël Huser
  • Tolga Görüm

The scientist's work is commonly published in the following venues:

  • Engineering Geology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
  • Natural Hazards

Best Publications

  • Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis.

    Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Christine Alewell;Pablo Alvarez;Jamil Alexandre Ayach Anache

  • Presenting logistic regression-based landslide susceptibility results

    Luigi Lombardo;P. Martin Mai

  • GIS-based groundwater potential mapping in Shahroud plain, Iran. A comparison among statistical (bivariate and multivariate), data mining and MCDM approaches.

    Alireza Arabameri;Khalil Rezaei;Artemi Cerda;Luigi Lombardo

  • 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

  • Spatio-temporal topsoil organic carbon mapping of a semi-arid Mediterranean region: The role of land use, soil texture, topographic indices and the influence of remote sensing data to modelling.

    Calogero Schillaci;Marco Acutis;Luigi Lombardo;Aldo Lipani

  • Space-time landslide predictive modelling

    Luigi Lombardo;Thomas Opitz;Francesca Ardizzone;Fausto Guzzetti

  • Comparison of machine learning models for gully erosion susceptibility mapping

    Alireza Arabameri;Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Marco Loche;Xia Zhao

  • Handling high predictor dimensionality in slope-unit-based landslide susceptibility models through LASSO-penalized Generalized Linear Model

    Daniela Castro Camilo;Luigi Lombardo;Luigi Lombardo;P. Martin Mai;Jie Dou

  • 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

  • Landslide susceptibility maps of Italy: Lesson learnt from dealing with multiple landslide types and the uneven spatial distribution of the national inventory

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  • Integration of two-phase solid fluid equations in a catchment model for flashfloods, debris flows and shallow slope failures

    B. Bout;Luigi Lombardo;Luigi Lombardo;C.J. van Westen;V.G. Jetten

  • Soil erosion modelling: A bibliometric analysis.

    Nejc Bezak;Matjaž Mikoš;Pasquale Borrelli;Christine Alewell

  • Spatial modelling of gully erosion using evidential belief function, logistic regression, and a new ensemble of evidential belief function–logistic regression algorithm

    Alireza Arabameri;Biswajeet Pradhan;Biswajeet Pradhan;Khalil Rezaei;Mojtaba Yamani

  • 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

  • Point process-based modeling of multiple debris flow landslides using INLA: an application to the 2009 Messina disaster

    Luigi Lombardo;Thomas Opitz;Raphaël Huser

  • Explainable artificial intelligence in geoscience: A glimpse into the future of landslide susceptibility modeling

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  • 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

  • Landslide size matters: A new data-driven, spatial prototype

    Luigi Lombardo;Hakan Tanyas;Raphaël Huser;Fausto Guzzetti

  • Spatial modeling of multi-hazard threat to cultural heritage sites

    Luigi Lombardo;Hakan Tanyas;Hakan Tanyas;Ionut Cristi Nicu

  • Comparative assessment using boosted regression trees, binary logistic regression, frequency ratio and numerical risk factor for gully erosion susceptibility modelling

    Alireza Arabameri;Biswajeet Pradhan;Biswajeet Pradhan;Luigi Lombardo

  • A test of transferability for landslides susceptibility models under extreme climatic events: application to the Messina 2009 disaster

    L. Lombardo;L. Lombardo;M. Cama;M. Maerker;E. Rotigliano

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Conoscenti
Christian Conoscenti University of Palermo
Biswajeet Pradhan
Biswajeet Pradhan University of Technology Sydney
Dalia Kirschbaum
Dalia Kirschbaum Goddard Space Flight Center
Fausto Guzzetti
Fausto Guzzetti Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR
Dieu Tien Bui
Dieu Tien Bui University of South-Eastern Norway
Artemi Cerdà
Artemi Cerdà University of Valencia
C.J. van Westen
C.J. van Westen University of Twente
Victor Jetten
Victor Jetten University of Twente
Pasquale Borrelli
Pasquale Borrelli Roma Tre University
Jesús Rodrigo-Comino
Jesús Rodrigo-Comino University of Granada

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