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Silvia Bianchini

Silvia Bianchini

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
4175
World Ranking
6997
National Ranking
233

Overview

Silvia Bianchini is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy, focusing on research primarily within engineering, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans various subfields including management, monitoring, policy and law, atmospheric science, aerospace engineering, safety, risk, reliability and quality, and environmental engineering.

The main topics covered by Bianchini's research include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications and techniques
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geotechnical engineering and analysis
  • Karst systems and hydrogeology
  • Soil moisture and remote sensing
  • Geophysical methods and applications

Their publication record includes contributions to several respected journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Remote Sensing
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • The Cryosphere
  • Geocarto International
  • Geosciences

Recent research papers authored or co-authored by Silvia Bianchini are:

  • "Review of Satellite Interferometry for Landslide Detection in Italy," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Review of Works Combining GNSS and InSAR in Europe," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "Regional Recognition and Classification of Active Loess Landslides Using Two-Dimensional Deformation Derived from Sentinel-1 Interferometric Radar Data," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Sentinel-1-based monitoring services at regional scale in Italy: State of the art and main findings," 2021, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • "Machine learning for sinkhole risk mapping in Guidonia-Bagni di Tivoli plain (Rome), Italy," 2022, Geocarto International

Bianchini has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including Nicola Casagli, Pierluigi Confuorto, Pier Lorenzo Solari, Matteo Del Soldato, and Federico Raspini. These collaborations have contributed to their body of work in remote sensing and hazard monitoring.

Best Publications

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

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

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

    Francesca Cigna;Silvia Bianchini;Nicola Casagli

  • A methodology for improving landslide PSI data analysis

    Davide Notti;Gerardo Herrera;Silvia Bianchini;Claudia Meisina

  • Landslide mapping and monitoring by using radar and optical remote sensing: examples from the EC-FP7 project SAFER

    N Casagli;F Cigna;S Bianchini;Daniel Wolfgang Hölbling

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

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

  • Combination of GNSS, satellite InSAR, and GBInSAR remote sensing monitoring to improve the understanding of a large landslide in high alpine environment

    Tommaso Carlà;Veronica Tofani;Luca Lombardi;Federico Raspini

  • Review of Satellite Interferometry for Landslide Detection in Italy

    Lorenzo Solari;Matteo Del Soldato;Federico Raspini;Anna Barra

  • Landslide HotSpot Mapping by means of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

    Silvia Bianchini;Francesca Cigna;Gaia Righini;Chiara Proietti

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

    Federica Bardi;William Frodella;Andrea Ciampalini;Silvia Bianchini

  • Landslide Activity Maps Generation by Means of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry

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

  • Building Deformation Assessment by Means of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Analysis on a Landslide-Affected Area: The Volterra (Italy) Case Study

    Silvia Bianchini;Fabio Pratesi;Teresa Nolesini;Nicola Casagli

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Semi-Automatic Identification and Pre-Screening of Geological─Geotechnical Deformational Processes Using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Datasets

    Roberto Tomás;José Ignacio Pagán;José A. Navarro;Miguel Cano

  • A Sentinel-1 based hot-spot analysis: landslide mapping in north-western Italy

    Lorenzo Solari;Matteo Del Soldato;Roberto Montalti;Silvia Bianchini

  • The effectiveness of high-resolution LiDAR data combined with PSInSAR data in landslide study

    Andrea Ciampalini;Federico Raspini;William Frodella;Federica Bardi

  • Persistent Scatterers continuous streaming for landslide monitoring and mapping: the case of the Tuscany region (Italy)

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

  • Multisource data integration to investigate one century of evolution for the Agnone landslide (Molise, southern Italy)

    M. Del Soldato;A. Riquelme;S. Bianchini;R. Tomàs

  • Exploitation of large archives of ERS and ENVISAT C-band SAR data to characterize ground deformations

    Chiara Del Ventisette;Andrea Ciampalini;Michele Manunta;Fabiana Calò

  • 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
Federico Raspini
Federico Raspini University of Florence
Sandro Moretti
Sandro Moretti University of Florence
Gerardo Herrera
Gerardo Herrera Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
Michele Crosetto
Michele Crosetto Polytechnic University of Milan
Paola Reichenbach
Paola Reichenbach National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Roberto Tomás
Roberto Tomás University of Alicante
Filippo Catani
Filippo Catani University of Padua
Veronica Tofani
Veronica Tofani University of Florence
Francesca Ardizzone
Francesca Ardizzone National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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