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Overview

Pietro Ceccato is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine. Their work addresses a range of topics related to public and environmental health as well as climate impacts.

The main fields of study for Ceccato include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

They have contributed to several subfields such as:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Engineering

Ceccato's research topics encompass:

  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Travel-related health issues
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • James Chirombo
  • Rachel Lowe
  • Dianne J. Terlouw
  • Madeleine C. Thomson
  • Austin Gumbo

Ceccato has published in multiple venues, including:

  • Malaria Journal
  • PubMed
  • Preprints.org

Selected recent publications are:

  • Childhood malaria case incidence in Malawi between 2004 and 2017: spatio-temporal modelling of climate and non-climate factors, 2020, Malaria Journal
  • An observatory to gather and disseminate information on the health-related effects of environmental and climate change, 2024, PubMed
  • INterpolated FLOod Surface (INFLOS), a Rapid and Operational Tool to Estimate Flood Depths from Earth Observation Data for Emergency Management, 2024, Preprints.org

Best Publications

  • Detecting vegetation leaf water content using reflectance in the optical domain

    Pietro Ceccato;Stéphane Flasse;Stefano Tarantola;Stéphane Jacquemoud

  • Designing a spectral index to estimate vegetation water content from remote sensing data: Part 1 - Theoretical approach

    Pietro Ceccato;Nadine Gobron;Stéphane Flasse;Bernard Pinty

  • Validation of satellite rainfall products over East Africa's complex topography

    T. Dinku;P. Ceccato;E. Grover-Kopec;M. Lemma

  • Validation of the CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates over eastern Africa

    Tufa Dinku;Chris Funk;Chris Funk;Pete Peterson;Ross Maidment

  • Evaluation of MODIS land surface temperature data to estimate air temperature in different ecosystems over Africa

    Christelle Vancutsem;Pietro Ceccato;Tufa Dinku;Stephen J. Connor

  • Validation of high-resolution satellite rainfall products over complex terrain

    T. Dinku;S. Chidzambwa;P. Ceccato;S. J. Connor

  • Designing a spectral index to estimate vegetation water content from remote sensing data: Part 2. Validation and applications

    Pietro Ceccato;Stéphane Flasse;Jean-Marie Grégoire

  • A contextual algorithm for AVHRR fire detection

    S. P. Flasse;P. Ceccato

  • Normalized Difference Flood Index for rapid flood mapping: Taking advantage of EO big data

    Fabio Cian;Mattia Marconcini;Pietro Ceccato

  • Challenges of satellite rainfall estimation over mountainous and arid parts of east Africa

    Tufa Dinku;Pietro Ceccato;Stephen J. Connor

  • Validation and Intercomparison of Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Colombia

    Tufa Dinku;Franklyn Ruiz;Stephen J. Connor;Pietro Ceccato

  • The impact of climate change on the epidemiology and control of Rift Valley fever.

    V Martin;V Chevalier;P Ceccato;A Anyamba

  • Soil Dust Aerosols and Wind as Predictors of Seasonal Meningitis Incidence in Niger

    Carlos Perez Garcia Pando;Michelle C. Stanton;Peter J. Diggle;Sylwia Trzaska

  • A vectorial capacity product to monitor changing malaria transmission potential in epidemic regions of Africa.

    Pietro N. Ceccato;Christelle Vancutsem;Robert Klaver;James Rowland

  • Individual, household and environmental risk factors for malaria infection in Amhara, Oromia and SNNP regions of Ethiopia.

    Patricia M. Graves;Frank O. Richards;Jeremiah Ngondi;Jeremiah Ngondi;Paul M. Emerson

  • Application of Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing technologies for assessing and monitoring malaria risk.

    P Ceccato;SJ Connor;Isabelle Jeanne;MC Thomson

  • Comparison of CMORPH and TRMM-3B42 over Mountainous Regions of Africa and South America

    Tufa Dinku;Stephen J. Connor;Pietro Ceccato

  • Actual evapotranspiration in drylands derived from in-situ and satellite data: Assessing biophysical constraints

    Monica García;Inge Sandholt;Pietro Ceccato;Marc Ridler

  • An online operational rainfall-monitoring resource for epidemic malaria early warning systems in Africa.

    Emily Grover-Kopec;Mika Kawano;Robert W Klaver;Benno Blumenthal

  • Innovations in Climate Risk Management: Protecting and Building Rural Livelihoods in a Variable and Changing Climate

    James W. Hansen;Walter E. Baethgen;Daniel E. Osgood;Pietro N. Ceccato

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyle C. McDonald
Kyle C. McDonald City College of New York
Rasmus Fensholt
Rasmus Fensholt University of Copenhagen
Inge Sandholt
Inge Sandholt University of Copenhagen
Chris Funk
Chris Funk University of California, Santa Barbara
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Peter J. Diggle
Peter J. Diggle Lancaster University
Laurent Kergoat
Laurent Kergoat Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Pierre Defourny
Pierre Defourny Université Catholique de Louvain
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Véronique Chevalier
Véronique Chevalier Institut Pasteur

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