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Overview

Maurizio Santoro is affiliated with Gamma Remote Sensing in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in subfields such as environmental engineering, global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's work extensively involves topics related to remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing in agriculture, forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, forest management and policy, and soil geostatistics and mapping.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Oliver Cartus, Martin Herold, Philippe Ciais, Hui Yang, and Dmitry Schepaschenko, indicating collaborative efforts across multiple studies.

Maurizio Santoro has published research in various venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Earth system science data
  • Remote Sensing
  • Environmental Research Letters

Selected recent publications include:

  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations, 2021, Earth system science data
  • ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100, 2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200, 2022, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Mapping global forest age from forest inventories, biomass and climate data, 2021, Earth system science data

Best Publications

  • Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

    Nuno Carvalhais;Matthias Forkel;Myroslava Khomik;Jessica Bellarby

  • ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100

    Daniele Zanaga;Ruben Van De Kerchove;Wanda De Keersmaecker;Niels Souverijns

  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

    Maurizio Santoro;Oliver Cartus;Nuno Carvalhais;Nuno Carvalhais;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal

  • Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests

    Martin Thurner;Christian Beer;Maurizio Santoro;Nuno Carvalhais

  • Sentinel-1 Support in the GAMMA Software

    Urs Wegnüller;Charles Werner;Tazio Strozzi;Andreas Wiesmann

  • Retrieval of growing stock volume in boreal forest using hyper-temporal series of Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter measurements

    Maurizio Santoro;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus;Christiane Schmullius

  • Stem volume retrieval in boreal forests from ERS-1/2 interferometry

    Maurizio Santoro;Jan Askne;Gary Smith;Johan E.S Fransson

  • Mapping forest aboveground biomass in the Northeastern United States with ALOS PALSAR dual-polarization L-band

    Oliver Cartus;Maurizio Santoro;Josef Kellndorfer

  • Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action

    C Soto-Navarro;C Ravilious;A Arnell;X de Lamo

  • Multitemporal repeat-pass SAR interferometry of boreal forests

    J. Askne;M. Santoro;G. Smith;J.E.S. Fransson

  • Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

    Maurizio Santoro;André Beaudoin;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus

  • A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps

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  • Assessment of stand-wise stem volume retrieval in boreal forest from JERS-1 L-band SAR backscatter

    M. Santoro;Leif E.B. Eriksson;Jan Askne;C. Schmullius

  • Mapping global forest age from forest inventories, biomass and climate data

    Simon Besnard;Simon Besnard;Sujan Koirala;Maurizio Santoro;Ulrich Weber

  • Signatures of ALOS PALSAR L-Band Backscatter in Swedish Forest

    M. Santoro;J.E.S. Fransson;L.E.B. Eriksson;M. Magnusson

  • Sensitivity of X-, C-, and L-Band SAR Backscatter to Burn Severity in Mediterranean Pine Forests

    Mihai A Tanase;Maurizio Santoro;Juan de la Riva;Fernando Pérez-Cabello

  • Compilation and Validation of SAR and Optical Data Products for a Complete and Global Map of Inland/Ocean Water Tailored to the Climate Modeling Community

    Céline Lamarche;Maurizio Santoro;Sophie Bontemps;Raphaël d’Andrimont

  • Sentinel-1 support in the GAMMA Software

    Urs Wegmuller;Charles Werner;Tazio Stroozzi;Andreas Wiesmann

  • Model-Based Biomass Estimation of a Hemi-Boreal Forest from Multitemporal TanDEM-X Acquisitions

    Jan I. H. Askne;Johan E. S. Fransson;Maurizio Santoro;Maciej J. Soja

  • State of the Climate in 2013

    Jessica Blunden;Derek S. Arndt;Kate M. Willett;A. Johannes Dolman

  • Properties of ERS-1/2 coherence in the Siberian boreal forest and implications for stem volume retrieval

    Maurizio Santoro;Anatoly Shvidenko;Ian McCallum;Jan Askne

  • Sensitivity of SAR data to post-fire forest regrowth in Mediterranean and boreal forests

    Mihai Tanase;Juan de la Riva;Maurizio Santoro;Fernando Pérez-Cabello

Frequent Co-Authors

Urs Wegmüller
Urs Wegmüller Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)
Andreas Wiesmann
Andreas Wiesmann University of Bern
Nuno Carvalhais
Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Charles Werner
Charles Werner University of Zurich
Christiane Schmullius
Christiane Schmullius Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Christian Beer
Christian Beer Stockholm University
Dmitry Schepaschenko
Dmitry Schepaschenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Tazio Strozzi
Tazio Strozzi Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)
Anatoly Shvidenko
Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Ian McCallum
Ian McCallum International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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