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Michele Meroni publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michele Meroni sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 134 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Michele Meroni D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michele Meroni sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michele Meroni is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

The main subjects addressed in Michele Meroni's work include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Smart Agriculture and AI
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Michele Meroni has published research in several frequent venues, including:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Remote Sensing
  • Climate Services
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Comparing land surface phenology of major European crops as derived from SAR and multispectral data of Sentinel-1 and -2, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • From parcel to continental scale - A first European crop type map based on Sentinel-1 and LUCAS Copernicus in-situ observations, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Estimating and understanding crop yields with explainable deep learning in the Indian Wheat Belt, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Phenology of short vegetation cycles in a Kenyan rangeland from PlanetScope and Sentinel-2, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences, 2020, Nature Communications

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Felix Rembold
  • Hervé Kerdiles
  • Astrid Verhegghen
  • Lorenzo Seguini
  • Andrea Toreti

Best Publications

  • Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Review of methods and applications

    M. Meroni;M. Rossini;L. Guanter;L. Alonso

  • Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in vegetation: 50 years of progress.

    Gina H. Mohammed;Roberto Colombo;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Uwe Rascher

  • Validation of global moderate-resolution LAI products: a framework proposed within the CEOS land product validation subgroup

    J.T. Morisette;F. Baret;J.L. Privette;R.B. Myneni

  • Remote sensing of sun-induced fluorescence to improve modeling of diurnal courses of gross primary production (GPP)

    Alexander Damm;Jan Elbers;André Erler;Beniamino Gioli

  • Estimation of leaf and canopy water content in poplar plantations by means of hyperspectral indices and inverse modeling

    R. Colombo;M. Meroni;A. Marchesi;L. Busetto

  • Using digital repeat photography and eddy covariance data to model grassland phenology and photosynthetic CO2 uptake

    Mirco Migliavacca;Marta Galvagno;Edoardo Cremonese;Micol Rossini

  • Inversion of a radiative transfer model with hyperspectral observations for LAI mapping in poplar plantations

    M. Meroni;R. Colombo;C. Panigada

  • The fourth phase of the radiative transfer model intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Actual canopy scenarios and conformity testing

    Jean Luc Widlowski;Corrado Mio;Mathias Disney;Jennifer Adams

  • Vegetation phenology from Sentinel-2 and field cameras for a Dutch barrier island

    Anton Vrieling;Michele Meroni;Roshanak Darvishzadeh;Andrew K. Skidmore;Andrew K. Skidmore

  • From parcel to continental scale – A first European crop type map based on Sentinel-1 and LUCAS Copernicus in-situ observations

    Raphaël d’Andrimont;Astrid Verhegghen;Guido Lemoine;Pieter Kempeneers

  • Combining medium and coarse spatial resolution satellite data to improve the estimation of sub-pixel NDVI time series

    Lorenzo Busetto;Michele Meroni;Roberto Colombo

  • Performance of spectral fitting methods for vegetation fluorescence quantification

    M. Meroni;L. Busetto;R. Colombo;L. Guanter

  • Nitrogen Status Assessment for Variable Rate Fertilization in Maize through Hyperspectral Imagery

    Chiara Cilia;Cinzia Panigada;Micol Rossini;Michele Meroni

  • Leaf level detection of solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence by means of a subnanometer resolution spectroradiometer

    M. Meroni;R. Colombo

  • Continuous and long-term measurements of reflectance and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence by using novel automated field spectroscopy systems

    S. Cogliati;M. Rossini;T. Julitta;M. Meroni

  • Modeling the impact of spectral sensor configurations on the FLD retrieval accuracy of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

    Alexander Damm;André Erler;Walter Hillen;Michele Meroni

  • CEFLES2: the remote sensing component to quantify photosynthetic efficiency from the leaf to the region by measuring sun-induced fluorescence in the oxygen absorption bands

    U. Rascher;G. Agati;L. Alonso;G. Cecchi

  • Estimating and understanding crop yields with explainable deep learning in the Indian Wheat Belt

    Aleksandra Wolanin;Gonzalo Mateo-García;Gustau Camps-Valls;Luis Gómez-Chova

  • Identification of hyperspectral vegetation indices for Mediterranean pasture characterization

    Francesco Fava;Francesco Fava;Roberto Colombo;Stefano Bocchi;Michele Meroni

  • Comparing land surface phenology of major European crops as derived from SAR and multispectral data of Sentinel-1 and -2

    Michele Meroni;Raphaël d'Andrimont;Anton Vrieling;Dominique Fasbender

  • Using field spectroscopy to assess the potential of statistical approaches for the retrieval of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from ground and space

    Luis Guanter;Micol Rossini;Roberto Colombo;Michele Meroni

  • Assessing Steady-state Fluorescence and PRI from Hyperspectral Proximal Sensing as Early Indicators of Plant Stress: The Case of Ozone Exposure

    M Meroni;M Rossini;Picchi;C Panigada

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Colombo
Roberto Colombo University of Milano-Bicocca
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Luis Guanter
Luis Guanter Universitat Politècnica de València
Uwe Rascher
Uwe Rascher Forschungszentrum Jülich
Clement Atzberger
Clement Atzberger BOKU University
Edoardo Cremonese
Edoardo Cremonese CIMA Research Foundation
Claudia Giardino
Claudia Giardino National Research Council (CNR)
Giovanni Manca
Giovanni Manca University of Milano-Bicocca
Michel M. Verstraete
Michel M. Verstraete University of the Witwatersrand
Stefano Amaducci
Stefano Amaducci Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

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