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Pietro Alessandro Brivio

Pietro Alessandro Brivio

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
5821
World Ranking
8618
National Ranking
187

Pietro Alessandro Brivio 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 Pietro Alessandro Brivio sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 158 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pietro Alessandro Brivio 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 Pietro Alessandro Brivio sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pietro Alessandro Brivio is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on media technology, global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, and geography, planning, and development.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, notably remote sensing in agriculture, remote-sensing image classification, fire effects on ecosystems, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, land use and ecosystem services, geographic information systems studies, and data management and algorithms.

Brivio has contributed to multiple publications, including:

  • "A Burned Area Mapping Algorithm for Sentinel-2 Data Based on Approximate Reasoning and Region Growing" (2021) in Remote Sensing
  • "Knowledge and Data-Driven Mapping of Environmental Status Indicators from Remote Sensing and VGI" (2020) in Remote Sensing
  • "A Fully Automatic, Interpretable and Adaptive Machine Learning Approach to Map Burned Area from Remote Sensing" (2021) in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • "A Scalable Synthesis of Multiple Models of Geo Big Data Interpretation" (2020) in Journal of Software Engineering and Applications
  • "Explainable Multi-Criteria Data-Driven Environmental Status Assessment from Remote Sensing" (2022) in the 2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Journal of Software Engineering and Applications
  • 2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON)
  • Fire

Brivio collaborates regularly with several researchers. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Daniela Stroppiana
  • Mirco Boschetti
  • Gloria Bordogna
  • Matteo Sali
  • Giovanna Sona

Best Publications

  • Integration of remote sensing data and GIS for accurate mapping of flooded areas

    P. A. Brivio;R. Colombo;M. Maggi;R. Tomasoni

  • Detecting chlorophyll, Secchi disk depth and surface temperature in a sub-alpine lake using Landsat imagery

    Claudia Giardino;Monica Pepe;Pietro Alessandro Brivio;Paolo Ghezzi

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

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

  • A fuzzy set-based accuracy assessment of soft classification

    Elisabetta Binaghi;Pietro A. Brivio;Paolo Ghezzi;Anna Rampini

  • Multi-year monitoring of rice crop phenology through time series analysis of MODIS images

    M. Boschetti;D. Stroppiana;P. A. Brivio;S. Bocchi

  • 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

  • Comparative Analysis of Normalised Difference Spectral Indices Derived From MODIS for Detecting Surface Water in Flooded Rice Cropping Systems

    Mirco Boschetti;Francesco Nutini;Giacinto Manfron;Pietro Alessandro Brivio

  • Plant nitrogen concentration in paddy rice from field canopy hyperspectral radiometry

    Daniela Stroppiana;Mirco Boschetti;Pietro Alessandro Brivio;Stefano Bocchi

  • Determination of chlorophyll concentration changes in Lake Garda using an image-based radiative transfer code for Landsat TM images

    P. A. Brivio;C. Giardino;E. Zilioli

  • 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

  • Assessment of pasture production in the Italian Alps using spectrometric and remote sensing information

    Mirco Boschetti;Stefano Bocchi;Pietro Alessandro Brivio

  • 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 explicit assessment of rural land abandonment in the Mediterranean area

    Christof J. Weissteiner;Mirco Boschetti;Kristin Böttcher;Paola Carrara

  • A GLOBAL INVENTORY OF BURNED AREAS AT 1 KM RESOLUTION FOR THE YEAR 2000 DERIVED FROM SPOT VEGETATION DATA

    Kevin Tansey;Jean-Marie GrÉgoire;Elisabetta Binaghi;Luigi Boschetti

  • Evaluation of LAI-2000 for leaf area index monitoring in paddy rice

    Daniela Stroppiana;Mirco Boschetti;Roberto Confalonieri;Stefano Bocchi

  • Integration of Optical and SAR Data for Burned Area Mapping in Mediterranean Regions

    Daniela Stroppiana;Ramin Azar;Fabiana Calò;Antonio Pepe

  • In-Season Mapping of Crop Type with Optical and X-Band SAR Data: A Classification Tree Approach Using Synoptic Seasonal Features

    Paolo Villa;Daniela Stroppiana;Giacomo Fontanelli;Ramin Azar

  • Validation of satellite data for quality assurance in lake monitoring applications

    Pietro Alessandro Brivio;Claudia Giardino;Eugenio Zilioli

  • Principi e metodi di Telerilevamento

    P. Brivio;Giovanmaria Lechi-Lechi;E. Zilioli

  • Seasonality of MODIS LST over Southern Italy and correlation with land cover, topography and solar radiation

    Daniela Stroppiana;Massimo Antoninetti;Pietro Alessandro Brivio

  • Identification of environmental anomaly hot spots in West Africa from time series of NDVI and rainfall

    Mirco Boschetti;Francesco Nutini;Pietro Alessandro Brivio;Etienne Bartholomé

  • Towards an automated approach to map flooded areas from Sentinel-2 MSI data and soft integration of water spectral features

    Alessia Goffi;Daniela Stroppiana;Pietro Alessandro Brivio;Gloria Bordogna

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirco Boschetti
Mirco Boschetti National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Daniela Stroppiana
Daniela Stroppiana National Research Council (CNR)
Luigi Boschetti
Luigi Boschetti University of Idaho
Claudia Giardino
Claudia Giardino National Research Council (CNR)
Antonio Pepe
Antonio Pepe National Research Council (CNR)
Riccardo Lanari
Riccardo Lanari National Research Council (CNR)
Roberto Colombo
Roberto Colombo University of Milano-Bicocca
Claire Granier
Claire Granier National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Luca Nizzetto
Luca Nizzetto Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Michele Meroni
Michele Meroni University of Milano-Bicocca

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