GIS and Remote Sensing Unit at FEM-CRI

Journal articles

Selected peer reviewed articles:

In press:

1. Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M. and Metz, M. (2012): GRASS GIS: a multi-purpose Open Source GIS. Environmental Modelling & Software [DOI | PDF] (IF: 2.871)
2. Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Duprè, C., Diekmann, M., Carnesecchi, F., Gori, V., Chiarucci, A. (2012). Absence of distance decay in plot species similarity at small extent in an urban brownfield. Accepted by Community Ecology. (IF: 0.974)
3. Pelorosso, R., Della Chiesa, S., Tappeiner, U., Leone, A., Rocchini, D. (2012). Stability analysis for defining management strategies in abandoned mountain landscapes of the Mediterranean basin. Accepted by Landscape and Urban Planning. [DOI | PDF] (IF: 2.004)

Published:

2012:

1. Amici, V., Rocchini, D., Geri, F., Bacaro, G., Marcantonio, M., Chiarucci, A. (2012). Effects of an afforestation process on plant species richness: a retrogressive analysis. Ecological Complexity, 9: 55-62. [DOI ! PDF] (IF: 1.886)
2. Rocchini, D., Neteler, M. (2012). Spectral rank-abundance for measuring landscape diversity. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 33: 4458–4470. [DOI | PDF] (IF: 1.182)
3. Rocchini, D., Metz, M., Frigeri, A., Delucchi, L., Marcantonio, M., Neteler, M. (2012). Robust rectification of aerial photographs in an Open Source environment. Computers & Geosciences, 39 (2): 145-151  [DOI | PDF] (IF: 1.416)

2011 (cumulative IF: 49.037):

1. °Neteler, M., °Roiz, D., Rocchini, D., Castellani, C. and Rizzoli, A. (2011). Terra and Aqua satellites track tiger mosquito invasion: modeling the potential distribution of Aedes albopictus in north-eastern Italy. International Journal of Health Geographics, 10:49 [ Abstract | DOI | PDF ] °The authors contributed equally (IF: 2.34)
   
2. Cagnacci, F., Focardi,  S., Heurich, M., Hewison, A., Kjellander, P., Linnell, J., Mysterud, A., Neteler, M., Delucchi, L., Urbano, F. (2011). Migratory, stationary and the not so clear ones: behavioural gradients in partial migration of roe deer are determined by ecological and social factors. Oikos 120 (12), 1790-1802 [ DOI | PDF] (IF: 3.393)
3. Marcolla, B., Cescatti, A., Manca, G., Zorer, R., Cavagna, M., Fiora, A., Gianelle, D., Rodeghiero, M., Sottocornola, M., Zampedri, R., 2011. Climatic controls and ecosystem responses drive the inter-annual variability of the net ecosystem exchange of an alpine meadow. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 151, 1233-1243 [DOI | PDF] (IF: 3.228)
4. Jasiewicz J, Metz M., 2011. A new toolkit for extended Hortonian analysis. Computers and Geosciences, 37: 1162-1173. [DOI | PDF] (IF: 1.416)
5. Tonolli, S., Dalponte, M., Gianelle, D., Neteler, M.,  Rodeghiero, M., and Vescovo, L. (2011). Fusion of airborne  LIDAR and satellite multispectral data for the estimation of timber volume in an Alpine region.  Remote Sensing of Environment, 115: 2486-2498. [DOI | PDF] (IF: 3.951)
6. °Roiz D., °Neteler M., Castellani C., Arnoldi D., Rizzoli A., 2011: Climatic Factors Driving Invasion of the Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus) into New Areas of Trentino, Northern Italy. PLoS ONE. 6(4): e14800. °The authors contributed equally [DOI | PDF] (IF: 4.411)
     - press reactions and
     - featured in European Commission, Directorate-General for the Environment (DG ENV), Science for Environment Policy, Issue 252, "Predicting the spread of the tiger mosquito in Europe"
7. Maccherini, S., Marignani, M., Gioria, M., Renzi, M., Rocchini, D., Santi, E., Torri, D., Tundo, J., Honnay, O. (2011). Determinants of plant community composition of remnant biancane badlands: a hierarchical approach to quantify species-environment relationships. Applied Vegetation Science , 14: 378-387. [PDF] (IF: 1.802)
8. Rocchini, D., McGlinn, D., Ricotta, C., Neteler, M., Wohlgemuth, T. (2011). Landscape complexity and spatial scale influence the relationship between remotely sensed spectral diversity and survey based plant species richness. Journal of Vegetation Science. 22(4): 688-698 [DOI | PDF] (IF:  2.457)
9. Metz M., Mitasova H, Harmon RS (2011). Accurate stream extraction from large, radar-based elevation models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15, 667-678 [DOI | PDF] (IF 2.462)
10. Rizzoli, A., Hauffe, H.C., Carpi, G., Vourc’h, G., Neteler, M., Rosà, R. (2011). Lyme borreliosis in Europe. Eurosurveillance,  16(27):pii=19906 [Abstract | PDF] (IF pending)
11. Frigeri, A., Hare, T., Neteler, M., Coradini, A., Federico, C., Orosei, R. (2011). A research environment for digital planetary data processing and mapping using ISIS and GRASS GIS. Planetary and Space Science, 59 (11-12): 1265-1272 [DOI | PDF] (IF: 2.344)
12. Bacaro, G., Santi. E., Rocchini, D., Pezzo, F., Puglisi, L., Chiarucci, A. (2011). Geostatistical modelling of regional bird species richness: exploring  environmental proxies for conservation purpose. Biodiversity and Conservation, 20: 1677-1694. [DOI | PDF] (IF: 2.066)
13. He, K.S., Rocchini, D., Neteler, M., Nagendra, H. (2011). Benefits of hyperspectral remote sensing for tracking plant invasions. Diversity and Distributions, 17: 381-392. [DOI | PDF] (IF: 4.248)
14. Imre, A.R., Cseh, D., Neteler, M., Rocchini, D. (2011). Korcak dimension as a novel indicator of landscape fragmentation and re-forestation. Ecological Indicators, 11: 1134–1138 [DOI | PDF] (IF: 2.967)
15. Rocchini, D., Hortal, J., Lengyel, S., Lobo, J.M., Jiménez-Valverde, A., Ricotta, C., Bacaro, G., Chiarucci, A. (2011). Accounting for uncertainty when mapping species distributions: the need for maps of ignorance. Progress in Physical Geography, 35: 211-226. [PDF] (IF: 2.261)
16. Geri, F., Amici, V., Rocchini, D. (2011). Spatially-based accuracy assessment of forestation prediction in a complex Mediterranean landscape. Applied Geography, 31: 881-890. [DOI | PDF] (IF: 2.324)

Further publications:

1. Neteler, M., Rocchini, D. (2011). Why Geomatics matter. Geography and You, September-October issue, p. 28-29. [PDF]

2010 (cumulative IF: 29.618):

1. Neteler, M. (2010): Estimating daily Land Surface Temperatures in mountainous environments by reconstructed MODIS LST data. Remote Sensing 2(1), 333-351. [ DOI | Abstract | PDF ]
   
2. Rocchini, D. (2010). Ecological status and change by remote sensing - Editorial. Remote Sensing, 2: 2424-2425. [DOI | PDF]
3. F. Urbano, F. Cagnacci, C. Calenge, A. Cameron, H. Dettki, M. Neteler (2010) Wildlife tracking data management: a new vision. Theme issue "Challenges and opportunities of using GPS-based location data in animal ecology". Phil. Trans. Royal Society B - 27 July 2010, 365(1550), pp. 2177-2185 (IF: 6.053) [DOI | Abstract | PDF] - In Top10 of 2010
4. Rocchini, D., Balkenhol, N., Carter, G.A., Foody, G.M., Gillespie, T.W., He, K.S., Kark, S., Levin, N., Lucas, K., Luoto, M., Nagendra, H., Oldeland, J., Ricotta, C., Southworth, J., Neteler, M. (2010). Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: recent advances and open challenges. Ecological Informatics, 5: 318-329. (IF: 1.351) [DOI | PDF] - Ranked TOP25 hottest articles Jul-Sep 2010
5. Rocchini, D. (2010). Mathematical Ecology of Populations and Ecosystems by J. Pastor. Book Review. Ecoscience, 17: 226-227. (IF: 1.117) [PDF]
6. Ricotta, C., Godefroid, S., Rocchini, D. (2010). Invasiveness of Brussels alien plants is related to their phylogenetic similarity to native species. Diversity and Distributions, 16: 655-662. (IF: 4.224) [DOI | PDF]
7. Rocchini, D., Vannini, A. (2010). What is up? Testing spectral heterogeneity vs. NDVI relationship by quantile regression. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31: 2745–2756. (IF: 1.089) [DOI | PDF]
8. Rocchini, D., He, K.S., Oldeland, J., Wesuls, D., Neteler, M. (2010). Spectral variation versus species beta-diversity at different spatial scales: a test in African highland savannas. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 12(4): 825-831. (IF: 1.810) [DOI | PDF]
9. Amici, V., Geri, F., Csontos, P., Neteler, M., Rocchini, D. (2010). Fuzzy and boolean forest membership: on the actual separability of land cover classes. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 8: 39-50. (IF: 0.547) [PDF]
10. Nagendra, H., Rocchini, D., Ghate, R., Sharma, B., Pareeth, S. (2010): Assessing biodiversity in a dry tropical forest: comparing the utility of Landsat and IKONOS satellite images, Remote Sensing, 2(2), pp 478-496. [ DOI | Abstract | PDF ]
11. Geri, F., Amici, V., Rocchini, D. (2010). Human activity impact on the heterogeneity of a Mediterranean landscape. Applied Geography, 30: 370-379. (IF: 2.324) [DOI | PDF]
12. Geri, F., Rocchini, D., Chiarucci, A. (2010). Landscape metrics and topographical determinants of large-scale forest dynamics in a Mediterranean landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning, 95: 46-53. (IF: 2.17) [DOI | PDF]
13. Rocchini, D. (2010). While Boolean sets non-gently rip: a theoretical framework on fuzzy sets for mapping landscape patterns. Ecological Complexity, 7:125-129. (IF 2.040) [DOI | PDF]
14. Oldeland, J., Wesuls, D., Rocchini, D., Schmidt, M., Norbert, J. (2010). Does using species abundance data improve estimates of species diversity from remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity? Ecological Indicators, 10: 390-396 (IF: 1.984) [DOI | PDF]
15. Santi, E., Maccherini, S., Rocchini, D., Bonini, I., Brunialti, G., Favilli, L., Perini, C., Pezzo, F., Piazzini, S., Rota, E., Salerni, E., Chiarucci, A. (2010). Simple to sample: vascular plants as surrogate group in a nature reserve. Journal for Nature Conservation, 18: 2-11. (IF: 0.94) [DOI | PDF]
16. Ricotta, C., Godefroid, S., Rocchini, D. (2010). Patterns of native and exotic species richness in the urban flora of Brussels: rejecting the “rich get richer” model. Biological Invasions, 12: 33-40. (IF: 3.074) [DOI | PDF]
17. Nagendra, H., Rocchini, D., Ghate, R. (2010). Beyond parks as monoliths: Spatially differentiating park-people relationships in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in India. Biological Conservation, 143: 2900-2908. (IF: 3.167) [DOI | PDF]

Further publications:

1. Neteler, M. (2010). Spatio-temporal reconstruction of satellite-based temperature maps and their application to the prediction of tick and mosquito disease vector distribution in Northern Italy. PhD thesis, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. EDEN PhD summary catalogued by the EDEN EU/FP6 Steering Committee as EDEN0176.
2. Neteler M. (2010). Open Source Geospatial Foundation. In Warf, B. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Geography. Vol. 4, pages 2088-2089. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications [ HTML ]
3. Neteler M. (2010). Open Source GIS. In Warf, B. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Geography. London: SAGE Publications. Vol. 4, pages 2090-2091. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications [ HTML ]

2009

1. Rizzoli, A., Hauffe, H., Tagliapietra, V., Neteler, M., Rosà, R., 2009: Forest structure and roe deer abundance predict Tick-Borne Encephalitis risk in Italy. PLoS ONE, 4(2): e4336 (IF: 4.351) (DOI) [ PubMed | PDF ]
2. Rocchini, D., He, K.S., Zhang, J. (2009). Is spectral distance a proxy of beta diversity at different taxonomic ranks? A test using quantile regression. Ecological Informatics, 4: 254-259. [DOI | PDF]
3. Chiarucci, A., Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Ricotta, C., Palmer, M.W., Scheiner, S.M. (2009). Spatially Constrained Rarefaction: incorporating the autocorrelated structure of biological communities in sample-based rarefaction. Community Ecology, 10: 209-214. [PDF]
4. Rocchini, D. (2009). Commentary on Krishnaswamy et al. - Quantifying and mapping biodiversity and ecosystem services: Utility of a multi-season NDVI based Mahalanobis distance surrogate. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 904-906. [DOI | PDF]
5. Rocchini, D., Nagendra, H., Ghate, R., Cade, B.S. (2009). Spectral distance decay: assessing species beta-diversity by quantile regression. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 75: 1225–1230. [PDF]
6. Imre, A., Rocchini, D. (2009). Explicitly accounting for pixel dimension in calculating classical and fractal landscape shape metrics. Acta Biotheoretica, 57: 349-360. [DOI | PDF]
7. Rocchini, D. (2009). Algorithmic foundation of spectral rarefaction for measuring satellite imagery heterogeneity at multiple spatial scales. Sensors, 9: 303-310. [DOI | PDF]
8. Rocchini, D., Ricotta, C., Chiarucci, A., De Dominicis, V., Cirillo, I., Maccherini, S. (2009). Relating spectral and species diversity through rarefaction curves. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30, 2705-2711. [DOI | PDF]
9. Rocchini, D., Marignani, M., Bacaro, G., Chiarucci, A., Ferretti, M., De Dominicis, V., Maccherini, S. (2009). Multi-scale sampling and statistical linear estimators to assess land use status and change. Applied Vegetation Science, 12: 225-236. [DOI | PDF]

2008

1. Carpi G., Cagnacci F., Neteler M., Rizzoli A, 2008: Tick infestation on roe deer in relation to geographic and remotely-sensed climatic variables in a tick-borne encephalitis endemic area. Epidemiology and Infection, 136, pp. 1416-1424. (DOI | PDF) (IF 2008: 2.36) [ PubMed ]
2. A. Jolma, D.P. Ames, N. Horning, H. Mitasova, M. Neteler, A. Racicot, and T. Sutton, 2008: Environmental Modeling Using Open Source Tools. In S. Shekhar and H. Xiong, editors, Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, New York [ http | entry ]
3. Nagendra, H., Rocchini, D. (2008). Satellite imagery applied to biodiversity study in the tropics: the devil is in the detail. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17: 3431-3442. [DOI | PDF]
4. Rocchini, D., Wohlgemuth, T., Ghisleni, S., Chiarucci, A. (2008). Spectral rarefaction: linking ecological variability and plant species diversity. Community Ecology, 9: 169-176. [DOI | PDF]
5. Chiarucci, A., Bacaro, G., Vannini, A., Rocchini, D. (2008). Species diversity indicators in the Natura2000 network. Community Ecology, 9: 185-192. [DOI | PDF]
6. Chiarucci, A., Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D. (2008). Quantifying plant species diversity in a Natura 2000 Network: old ideas and new proposals. Biological Conservation, 141: 2608-2618. [DOI | PDF]
7. Chiarucci, A., Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Fattorini, L. (2008). Discovering and … rediscovering the rarefaction formula in ecological literature. Community Ecology, 9: 121-123. [DOI | PDF]
8. Rocchini, D., Cade, B.S. (2008). Quantile regression applied to spectral distance decay. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 5: 640-643. [DOI | PDF]
9. Gillespie, T.W., Foody, G.M., Rocchini, D., Giorgi, A.P., Saatchi, S. (2008). Measuring and modeling biodiversity from space. Progress in Physical Geography, 32: 203-221. [DOI | PDF]
10. Bacaro, G., Rocchini, D., Bonini, I., Marignani, M., Maccherini, S., Chiarucci, A. (2008). Ecological determinants of plant species richness at local scale in Mediterranean forests. Plant Biosystems, 142: 630-642. [DOI | PDF]
11. Rocchini, D. (2008). Theory of reflectance and emittance spectroscopy, by B. Hapke, Book Review. The Photogrammetric Record, 23: 241. [DOI | PDF]
12. Marignani, M., Maccherini, S., Rocchini, D., Chiarucci, A., Torri, D. (2008). Planning restoration in a cultural landscape in Italy using object –based approach and historical analysis. Landscape and Urban Planning, 84: 28-37. [DOI | PDF]

2007

1. Rizzoli, A., Neteler, M., Rosà, R., Versini, W., Cristofolini, A.,  Bregoli, M.,  Buckley, A., and Gould, E.A. (2007). Early detection of TBEv spatial distribution and activity in the Province of Trento assessed using serological and remotely-sensed climatic data. Geospatial Health, 1(2), pp. 169-176. (IF 2008: 1.472)  [ Abstract | PubMed | PDF ]
2. Csontos, P., Rocchini, D., Bacaro, G. (2007). Modelling factors affecting litter mass components of pine stands. Community Ecology, 8: 247-256. [DOI | PDF]
3. Rocchini, D. (2007). Effects of spatial and spectral resolution in estimating ecosystem a-diversity by satellite imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 111: 423-434. [DOI | PDF]
4. Rocchini, D., Ricotta, C., Chiarucci, A. (2007). Using remote sensing to assess plant species richness: the role of multispectral systems. Applied Vegetation Science, 10: 325-332. [PDF]
5. Baffetta, F., Bacaro, G., Fattorini, L., Rocchini, D., Chiarucci, A. (2007). Using nested plot design to obtain unbiased estimates of species richness. Community Ecology, 8: 119-127. [DOI | PDF]
6. Rocchini, D., Ricotta, C. (2007). Are landscapes as crisp as we may think? Ecological Modelling, 204: 535-539. [DOI | PDF]
7. Rocchini, D. (2007). Distance decay in spectral space in analysing ecosystem b-diversity. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28: 2635-2644. [DOI | PDF]
8. Gerosa, G., Ferretti, M., Bussotti, F., Rocchini, D. (2007). An empirical method to estimate ozone AOT40 from passive sampling in forest sites in South-Western Europe. Environmental Pollution, 145: 629-635. [DOI | PDF]

2006

1. M. Benito Garzón, R. Blazek, M. Neteler, R. Sanchez de Dios, H. Sainz Ollero, and C. Furlanello, 2006: Predicting habitat suitability with Machine Learning models: the potential area of Pinus sylvestris L. in the Iberian Peninsula. Ecological Modelling, 197(3-4), pp. 383-393. (IF 2006: 1.888) [DOI | PDF] - Ranked TOP25 hottest articles Jul-Sep 2006
2. Rocchini, D., Perry, G.L.W., Salerno, M., Maccherini, S., Chiarucci, A. (2006). Landscape change and the dynamics of open formations in a natural reserve. Landscape and Urban Planning, 77: 167-177. [DOI | PDF]
3. Rocchini, D. (2006). GI pioneers come back again. Book review of Longley et al. (2005), Geographic Information Systems and Science, 2nd edition. ISPRS Highlights, 11: 73-74. [DOI | PDF]
4. Rocchini, D., Cateni, C. (2006). On the measure of spatial centroid in Geography. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 5: 729-731. [PDF]

2005

1. M. Di Penta, M. Neteler, G. Antoniol, E. Merlo, 2005: A Language-Independent Software Renovation Framework. Journal of Systems and Software, 77(3), pp. 225-240. (IF 2005: 0.744) [PDF]
2. M. Neteler, 2005: Time series processing of MODIS satellite data for landscape epidemiological applications. International Journal of Geoinformatics, 1(1), pp. 133-138 [PDF]
3. M. Neteler, D. Grasso, I. Michelazzi, L. Miori, S. Merler, and C. Furlanello, 2005: An integrated toolbox for image registration, fusion and classification. International Journal of Geoinformatics, 1(1), pp. 51-61 [PDF]
4. S. Masumoto, V. Raghavan, S. Nonogaki, M. Neteler, T. Nemoto, T. Mori, M. Niwa, A. Hagiwara, and N. Hattori, 2005: Multi-Language Support and Localization of GRASS GIS. International Journal of Geoinformatics, 1(1), pp. 33-40. [PDF]
5. Rocchini, D., Andreini Butini, S., Chiarucci, A. (2005). Maximizing plant species inventory efficiency by means of remotely sensed spectral distances. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14: 431-437. [DOI | PDF]
6. Rocchini, D., Di Rita, A. (2005). Relief effects on aerial photos geometric correction. Applied Geography, 25: 159-168. TOP 25 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES FROM October 2005 to July 2006. [DOI | PDF]
7. Rocchini, D. (2005). Resolution problems in calculating landscape metrics. Journal of Spatial Science, 50: 25-36. [PDF]
8. Rocchini, D. (2005). RS as Rubbish Sensing? A reply from a landscape ecologist. The Photogrammetric Record, 20: 404-406. [DOI | PDF]

2004

1. A. Rizzoli, R. Rosà, B. Mantelli, E. Pecchioli, H. Hauffe, V. Tagliapietra, T. Beninati, M. Neteler, and C. Genchi, 2004: Ixodes ricinus, transmitted diseases and reservoirs. Parassitologia, 46(1-2):119-122.
2. H. Mitasova and M. Neteler, 2004: GRASS as Open Source - Free Software GIS: accomplishments and perspectives. Guest editorial. Transactions in GIS, 8(2), pp. 145-154.[ DOI ]
3. J. Stankovic, M. Neteler and R. Flor, 2004: Mobile Wireless GRASS GIS for Handheld Computers Running GNU/Linux. Transactions in GIS, Vol 8 (2), pp. 225-233. [ DOI ]
4. H. Mitasova and M. Neteler, 2004: Free General-purpose GIS. A Geographic Resources Analysis Support System. The Journal of Survey, 54(2), pp. 34-38 (translation of GIM International 2003 article, in Japanese).
5. Rocchini, D., Chiarucci, A., Loiselle, S.A. (2004). Testing the Spectral Variation Hypothesis by using satellite multispectral images. Acta Oecologica, 26: 117-120. TOP 25 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES FROM October 2004 to June 2005. [DOI | PDF]
6. Rocchini, D. (2004). Misleading information from direct interpretation of geometrically incorrect aerial photographs. The Photogrammetric Record, 19: 138-148. [DOI | PDF]

2003

1. H. Mitasova and M. Neteler, 2003: Free General-purpose GIS. A Geographic Resources Analysis Support System. GIM International, 17(11), pp. 2-5.
2. V. Raghavan, K. Kita, K. Iwao, and M. Neteler, 2003: Open source GIS GRASS for developing spatial data infrastructure - Present status and future potential. Journal of Information Science and Technology Association, 4(53), pp. 216-222.
3. Salerni E., Perini C., Rocchini D., Laganà A., De Dominicis V. (2003). The Italian check-list of macrofungi: distribution of selected target species in Siena province, Italy. Mycotaxon, 86: 123-147.

Note: ... for previous publications, see the pages of Markus Neteler and Duccio Rocchini.