Paolo Villa

TL;DR: Modern methods based on nucleic acid and protein analysis are described, which represent unprecedented tools to render agriculture more sustainable and safe, avoiding expensive use of pesticides in crop protection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the suitability and gaps of a hyperspectral global mapping satellite mission for measuring freshwater ecosystems and demonstrate the need for such a mission, and evaluate their suitability through an examination of the measurement resolution issues impacting freshwater ecosystem measurements (spatial, temporal, spectral and radiometric).

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-swath MERIS and MODIS sensors were proposed for regular broad scale monitoring of water quality, having compared the retrieved chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentration, Secchi disk (SD) depth and surface water temperature with the 2005-2008 time-series of the in situ data.

TL;DR: A straightforward technique based on the sequential use of the spectral-temporal principal component analysis, logical filtering, and image segmentation integrated with the digital elevation model was developed as a decisional support tool for the allocations of the resource destined for the flooded areas.

TL;DR: Two new VIs specifically targeted at aquatic vegetation: NDAVI and WAVI are introduced and their performance in capturing information about aquatic vegetation features by comparison with pre-existing indices: NDVI, SAVI and EVI is assessed.