Roberto Luciani

Sapienza University of Rome | la sapienza · Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale

The SBAM (Satellite Based Agricultural Monitoring) project, funded by the Italian Space Agency aims at: developing a validated satellite imagery based method for estimating and updating the agricultural areas in the region of Central-Africa; implementing an automated process chain capable of providing periodical agricultural land cover maps of the...

Agricultural activities conducted in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya show a significant decline of productivity levels. This phenomenon is mainly related to limited availability of water resources, lack of supporting irrigation, and harvesting techniques ineffectiveness. Production risks reduction is closely related with a better use of water resour...

Forest fires are one of the main sources of threat and degradation of vegetated and anthropic areas in the Mediter- ranean Basin. In the last decade, Italy experienced about 5500 forest fires per year, which burned about 50.000 hectares per year, although a high interannual variability characterizes this phenomenon. Supporting wildland fire preven...

Geostationary satellites like meteosat second generation (MSG) allow the detection and monitoring of thermal anomalies (wild fires and volcanic eruptions) with a refresh frequency ranging from 5 to 15 min. Such a frequency meets the requirements of the institutions involved in monitoring and containing the fire events and could provide information...

Oil pollution is one of the most destructive consequences due to human activities in the marine environment. Oil wastes come from many sources and take decades to be disposed of. Satellite based remote sensing systems can be implemented into a surveillance and monitoring network. In this study, a multi-temporal approach to the oil spill detection p...