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Sandro Moretti

Sandro Moretti

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
4537
World Ranking
6610
National Ranking
207

Overview

Sandro Moretti is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering. Their scholarly work spans a variety of subfields including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Global and Planetary Change; Ecology; Atmospheric Science; and Environmental Engineering.

The researcher's expertise encompasses topics such as landslides and related hazards, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, geotechnical engineering and analysis, cryospheric studies and observations, fire effects on ecosystems, 3D surveying and cultural heritage, as well as soil erosion and sediment transport.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated closely with Moretti include Giacomo Lazzeri, Pierluigi Confuorto, Federico Raspini, Veronica Tofani, and Nicola Casagli.

Their research output is published across several venues with notable frequency in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Sensors
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Land
  • IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering

Recent papers by Moretti include:

  • Multitemporal Mapping of Post-Fire Land Cover Using Multiplatform PRISMA Hyperspectral and Sentinel-UAV Multispectral Data: Insights from Case Studies in Portugal and Italy (2021) in Sensors
  • Tracking the Evolution of Riverbed Morphology on the Basis of UAV Photogrammetry (2021) in Remote Sensing
  • Applying Infrared Thermography to Soil Surface Temperature Monitoring: Case Study of a High-Resolution 48 h Survey in a Vineyard (Anadia, Portugal) (2020) in Sensors
  • Shifting from traditional landslide occurrence modeling to scenario estimation with a "glass-box" machine learning (2024) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Hyperspectral sensor: A handy tool to evaluate the efficacy of cleaning procedures (2021) in Journal of Cultural Heritage

Best Publications

  • Permanent Scatterers for landslide investigations: outcomes from the ESA-SLAM project

    Paolo Farina;Davide Colombo;Alfio Fumagalli;Florian Marks

  • Multitemporal UAV surveys for landslide mapping and characterization

    Guglielmo Rossi;Luca Tanteri;Veronica Tofani;Pietro Vannocci

  • A Methodology to Detect and Update Active Deformation Areas Based on Sentinel-1 SAR Images

    Anna Barra;Lorenzo Solari;Marta Béjar-Pizarro;Oriol Monserrat

  • On the application of SAR interferometry to geomorphological studies: estimation of landform attributes and mass movements

    Filippo Catani;Paolo Farina;Sandro Moretti;Giovanni Nico

  • Monitoring landslide displacements by using ground-based synthetic aperture radar interferometry: Application to the Ruinon landslide in the italian Alps

    Dario Tarchi;Nicola Casagli;Sandro Moretti;Davide Leva

  • 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

  • Integration between ground based and satellite SAR data in landslide mapping: The San Fratello case study

    Federica Bardi;William Frodella;Andrea Ciampalini;Silvia Bianchini

  • 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 Activity Maps Generation by Means of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

    Silvia Bianchini;Gerardo Herrera;Rosa Maria Mateos;Davide Notti

  • Analysis of building deformation in landslide area using multisensor PSInSAR™ technique

    Andrea Ciampalini;Federica Bardi;Silvia Bianchini;William Frodella

  • PSInSAR Analysis in the Pisa Urban Area (Italy): A Case Study of Subsidence Related to Stratigraphical Factors and Urbanization

    Lorenzo Solari;Andrea Ciampalini;Federico Raspini;Silvia Bianchini

  • A typical “calanchi” landscape on the Eastern Apennine margin (Atri, Central Italy): geomorphological features and evolution

    Sandro Moretti;Giuliano Rodolfi

  • Remote sensing as tool for development of landslide databases: The case of the Messina Province (Italy) geodatabase

    Andrea Ciampalini;Federico Raspini;Silvia Bianchini;William Frodella

  • Gully erosion modelling and landscape response in the Mbuluzi River catchment of Swaziland

    Aleksey Sidorchuk;Michael Märker;Sandro Moretti;Giuliano Rodolfi

  • Multitemporal landslides inventory map updating using spaceborne SAR analysis

    C. Del Ventisette;Gaia Righini;S. Moretti;N. Casagli

  • Landslide inventory map for the Briga and the Giampilieri catchments, NE Sicily, Italy

    F. Ardizzone;G. Basile;M. Cardinali;N. Casagli

  • Ground subsidence phenomena in the Delta municipality region (Northern Greece): Geotechnical modeling and validation with Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

    Federico Raspini;Constantinos Loupasakis;Dimitrios Rozos;Nico Adam

  • From ERS 1/2 to Sentinel-1: Subsidence Monitoring in Italy in the Last Two Decades

    Lorenzo Solari;Matteo Del Soldato;Silvia Bianchini;Andrea Ciampalini

  • Integrating geographical information systems, remote sensing, ground truthing and modelling approaches for regional erosion classification of semi-arid catchments in South Africa

    Wolfgang-Albert Flügel;Michael Märker;Sandro Moretti;Giuliano Rodolfi

  • Degradation of C2-C15 volatile organic compounds in a landfill cover soil.

    Franco Tassi;Giordano Montegrossi;Orlando Vaselli;Caterina Liccioli

  • Landslide Activity Maps Generation by Means of Persistent

    Scatterer Interferometry;Silvia Bianchini;Gerardo Herrera;Rosa Maria Mateos

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola Casagli
Nicola Casagli University of Florence
Silvia Bianchini
Silvia Bianchini University of Florence
Federico Raspini
Federico Raspini University of Florence
Filippo Catani
Filippo Catani University of Padua
Veronica Tofani
Veronica Tofani University of Florence
Gerardo Herrera
Gerardo Herrera Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
Samuele Segoni
Samuele Segoni University of Florence
Giovanni Gigli
Giovanni Gigli University of Florence
Francesca Ardizzone
Francesca Ardizzone National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Sébastien Lambot
Sébastien Lambot Université Catholique de Louvain

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