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Samuele Segoni

Samuele Segoni

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44
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7006
World Ranking
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Overview

Samuele Segoni is a researcher affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy. Their work spans across multiple domains within Environmental Science and Engineering, focusing notably on landslides and related hazards as well as flood risk assessment and management.

Their research is often published in journals specializing in geosciences and environmental phenomena, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Landslides
  • Water
  • Remote Sensing
  • Applied Sciences
  • Geosciences

Segoni's scholarly output demonstrates an emphasis on complex geological settings, slope stability, and early warning systems related to rainfall-induced events. Noteworthy recent papers include:

  • "Landslide susceptibility assessment in complex geological settings: sensitivity to geological information and insights on its parameterization," 2020, Landslides
  • "Usage of antecedent soil moisture for improving the performance of rainfall thresholds for landslide early warning," 2021, CATENA
  • "Definition of 3D rainfall thresholds to increase operative landslide early warning system performances," 2020, Landslides
  • "Root Reinforcement in Slope Stability Models: A Review," 2021, Geosciences
  • "Rainfall Induced Landslide Studies in Indian Himalayan Region: A Critical Review," 2020, Applied Sciences

The main fields of study for Segoni's work are Environmental Science and Engineering, with specific subfields including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Global and Planetary Change; Atmospheric Science; Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality; and Mechanical Engineering.

  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Mechanical Engineering

Topics frequently addressed in their research encompass:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Tree Root and Stability Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow

Segoni has collaborated closely with several coauthors, often publishing alongside:

  • Ascanio Rosi
  • Nicola Casagli
  • Veronica Tofani
  • Neelima Satyam
  • Biswajeet Pradhan

Best Publications

  • Landslide susceptibility estimation by random forests technique: sensitivity and scaling issues

    F. Catani;D. Lagomarsino;S. Segoni;V. Tofani

  • A review of the recent literature on rainfall thresholds for landslide occurrence

    Samuele Segoni;Luca Piciullo;Stefano Luigi Gariano

  • Rainfall thresholds for the forecasting of landslide occurrence at regional scale

    G. Martelloni;S. Segoni;R. Fanti;F. Catani

  • Rainfall Induced Landslide Studies in Indian Himalayan Region: A Critical Review

    Abhirup Dikshit;Raju Sarkar;Biswajeet Pradhan;Samuele Segoni

  • An empirical geomorphology-based approach to the spatial prediction of soil thickness at catchment scale

    Filippo Catani;Samuele Segoni;Giacomo Falorni

  • Landslides triggered by rainfall: A semi-automated procedure to define consistent intensity-duration thresholds

    Samuele Segoni;Guglielmo Rossi;Ascanio Rosi;Filippo Catani

  • HIRESSS: a physically based slope stability simulator for HPC applications

    Guglielmo Rossi;Filippo Catani;Lorenzo Leoni;Samuele Segoni

  • Technical note: use of remote sensing for landslide studies in Europe

    Veronica Tofani;Samuele Segoni;Andrea Agostini;Filippo Catani

  • Root Reinforcement in Slope Stability Models: A Review

    Elena Benedetta Masi;Samuele Segoni;Veronica Tofani

  • Integration of rainfall thresholds and susceptibility maps in the Emilia Romagna (Italy) regional-scale landslide warning system

    Samuele Segoni;Daniela Lagomarsino;Riccardo Fanti;Sandro Moretti

  • Geomorphic indexing of landslide dams evolution

    Carlo Tacconi Stefanelli;Samuele Segoni;Nicola Casagli;Filippo Catani

  • Technical Note: An operational landslide early warning system at regional scale based on space–time-variable rainfall thresholds

    Samuele Segoni;Alessandro Battistini;Guglielmo Rossi;Ascanio Rosi

  • Landslide susceptibility assessment in complex geological settings: sensitivity to geological information and insights on its parameterization

    Samuele Segoni;Giulio Pappafico;Tania Luti;Filippo Catani

  • Analysing the relationship between rainfalls and landslides to define a mosaic of triggering thresholds for regional-scale warning systems

    S. Segoni;A. Rosi;G. Rossi;F. Catani

  • Combination of Rainfall Thresholds and Susceptibility Maps for Dynamic Landslide Hazard Assessment at Regional Scale

    Samuele Segoni;Veronica Tofani;Ascanio Rosi;Filippo Catani

  • A Tool for Classification and Regression Using Random Forest Methodology: Applications to Landslide Susceptibility Mapping and Soil Thickness Modeling

    Daniela Lagomarsino;V. Tofani;S. Segoni;F. Catani

  • Rainfall thresholds for rainfall-induced landslides in Slovenia

    Ascanio Rosi;Tina Peternel;Mateja Jemec-Auflič;Marko Komac

  • Towards a definition of a real-time forecasting network for rainfall induced shallow landslides

    S. Segoni;L. Leoni;A.I. Benedetti;F. Catani

  • Brief communication: Using averaged soil moisture estimates to improve the performances of a regional-scale landslide early warning system

    Samuele Segoni;Ascanio Rosi;Daniela Lagomarsino;Daniela Lagomarsino;Riccardo Fanti

  • Soil characterization for shallow landslides modeling: a case study in the Northern Apennines (Central Italy)

    V Tofani;G. Bicocchi;G. Rossi;S. Segoni

  • Updating and tuning a regional-scale landslide early warning system

    D. Lagomarsino;S. Segoni;R. Fanti;F. Catani

  • Statistical and environmental analyses for the definition of a regional rainfall threshold system for landslide triggering in Tuscany (Italy)

    Ascanio Rosi;Samuele Segoni;Filippo Catani;Nicola Casagli

Frequent Co-Authors

Filippo Catani
Filippo Catani University of Padua
Nicola Casagli
Nicola Casagli University of Florence
Veronica Tofani
Veronica Tofani University of Florence
Biswajeet Pradhan
Biswajeet Pradhan University of Technology Sydney
Sandro Moretti
Sandro Moretti University of Florence
Giovanni B. Crosta
Giovanni B. Crosta University of Milano-Bicocca
Federico Raspini
Federico Raspini University of Florence
Paolo Frattini
Paolo Frattini University of Milano-Bicocca
Orlando Vaselli
Orlando Vaselli University of Florence
Franco Tassi
Franco Tassi University of Florence

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