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Nicola Casagli

Nicola Casagli

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Earth Science
Italy
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
83
Citations
23233
World Ranking
431
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Nicola Casagli is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy and focuses research primarily within Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering. Their work emphasizes landslides and related hazards, contributing extensively to understanding these natural events and their impacts.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications

Within subfields, the research most frequently covers:

  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Geophysics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change

Nicola Casagli has published numerous scientific papers, with recent examples including:

  • "Landslide detection, monitoring and prediction with remote-sensing techniques," 2023, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "The formation and impact of landslide dams - State of the art," 2020, published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "The Evolution of Wide-Area DInSAR: From Regional and National Services to the European Ground Motion Service," 2020, published in Remote Sensing
  • "Review of Satellite Interferometry for Landslide Detection in Italy," 2020, published in Remote Sensing
  • "Nation-wide mapping and classification of ground deformation phenomena through the spatial clustering of P-SBAS InSAR measurements: Italy case study," 2022, published in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nicola Casagli include Federico Raspini, Veronica Tofani, Giovanni Gigli, Matteo Del Soldato, and Federico Di Traglia.

The scientist regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • Landslides
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Nicola Casagli's contributions also include book publications, notably "Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk," published by Springer International Publishing in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Artificial Neural Networks applied to landslide susceptibility assessment

    Leonardo Ermini;Filippo Catani;Nicola Casagli

  • Landslide monitoring by using ground-based SAR interferometry: an example of application to the Tessina landslide in Italy

    Dario Tarchi;Nicola Casagli;Riccardo Fanti;David D. Leva

  • Prediction of the behaviour of landslide dams using a geomorphological dimensionless index

    L. Ermini;N. Casagli

  • Design and implementation of a landslide early warning system

    Emanuele Intrieri;Giovanni Gigli;Francesco Mugnai;Riccardo Fanti

  • The Maoxian landslide as seen from space: detecting precursors of failure with Sentinel-1 data

    Emanuele Intrieri;Federico Raspini;Alfio Fumagalli;Ping Lu

  • Semi-automatic extraction of rock mass structural data from high resolution LIDAR point clouds

    Giovanni Gigli;Nicola Casagli

  • Monitoring, prediction, and early warning using ground-based radar interferometry

    Nicola Casagli;Filippo Catani;Chiara Del Ventisette;Guido Luzi

  • Spaceborne, UAV and ground-based remote sensing techniques for landslide mapping, monitoring and early warning

    Nicola Casagli;William Frodella;Stefano Morelli;Veronica Tofani

  • Object-Oriented Change Detection for Landslide Rapid Mapping

    Ping Lu;André Stumpf;Norman Kerle;Nicola Casagli

  • Landslide hazard and risk mapping at catchment scale in the Arno River basin

    F. Catani;N. Casagli;L. Ermini;Gaia Righini

  • Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) Technique for Landslide Characterization and Monitoring

    Veronica Tofani;Federico Raspini;Filippo Catani;Nicola Casagli

  • Determining grain size distribution of the material composing landslide dams in the Northern Apennines: sampling and processing methods

    N Casagli;L Ermini;G Rosati

  • The new landslide inventory of Tuscany (Italy) updated with PS-InSAR: geomorphological features and landslide distribution

    A. Rosi;V. Tofani;L. Tanteri;C. Tacconi Stefanelli

  • Ground-based SAR interferometry for monitoring mass movements

    G. Antonello;N. Casagli;P. Farina;D. Leva

  • The formation and impact of landslide dams – State of the art

    Xuanmei Fan;Anja Dufresne;Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian;Alexander Strom

  • Continuous, semi-automatic monitoring of ground deformation using Sentinel-1 satellites.

    Federico Raspini;Silvia Bianchini;Andrea Ciampalini;Andrea Ciampalini;Matteo Del Soldato

  • Stability of streambanks formed in partially saturated soils and effects of negative pore water pressures: the Sieve River (Italy)

    Massimo Rinaldi;Nicola Casagli

  • How to assess landslide activity and intensity with Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI): the PSI-based matrix approach

    Francesca Cigna;Silvia Bianchini;Nicola Casagli

  • Monitoring and modelling of pore water pressure changes and riverbank stability during flow events

    Massimo Rinaldi;Nicola Casagli;Stefano Dapporto;Alessandro Gargini

  • Multitemporal UAV surveys for landslide mapping and characterization

    Guglielmo Rossi;Luca Tanteri;Veronica Tofani;Pietro Vannocci

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Gigli
Giovanni Gigli University of Florence
Filippo Catani
Filippo Catani University of Padua
Veronica Tofani
Veronica Tofani University of Florence
Federico Raspini
Federico Raspini University of Florence
Silvia Bianchini
Silvia Bianchini University of Florence
Sandro Moretti
Sandro Moretti University of Florence
Samuele Segoni
Samuele Segoni University of Florence
Guido Luzi
Guido Luzi University of Florence
Massimiliano Favalli
Massimiliano Favalli National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Massimo Rinaldi
Massimo Rinaldi University of Florence

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