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Salvatore Manfreda

Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico …
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[HTML][HTML] On the use of unmanned aerial systems for environmental monitoring

S Manfreda, MF McCabe, PE Miller, R Lucas… - Remote sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Environmental monitoring plays a central role in diagnosing climate and management
impacts on natural and agricultural systems; enhancing the understanding of hydrological …

Detection of flood-prone areas using digital elevation models

S Manfreda, M Di Leo, A Sole - Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2011 - ascelibrary.org
The availability of new technologies for the measurement of surface elevation has addressed
the lack of high-resolution elevation data, which has led to an increase in the attraction of …

Investigation on the use of geomorphic approaches for the delineation of flood prone areas

S Manfreda, F Nardi, C Samela, S Grimaldi… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Three different geomorphic approaches to the identification of flood prone areas are investigated
by means of a comparative analysis of the input parameters, the performances and the …

A physically based approach for the estimation of root-zone soil moisture from surface measurements

S Manfreda, L Brocca, T Moramarco… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2014 - hess.copernicus.org
In the present work, we developed a new formulation for the estimation of the soil moisture
in the root zone based on the measured value of soil moisture at the surface. It was derived …

The olive tree: a paradigm for drought tolerance in Mediterranean climates

A Sofo, S Manfreda, M Fiorentino… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2008 - hess.copernicus.org
Olive trees (Olea europaea L.) are commonly grown in the Mediterranean basin where
prolonged droughts may occur during the vegetative period. This species has developed a series …

Current practices in UAS-based environmental monitoring

G Tmušić, S Manfreda, H Aasen, MR James… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the increasing role that unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are playing in data collection
for environmental studies, two key challenges relate to harmonizing and providing …

Measurements and observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): Innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle

…, R Uijlenhoet, M Porfiri, S Manfreda… - Hydrological sciences …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
To promote the advancement of novel observation techniques that may lead to new sources
of information to help better understand the hydrological cycle, the International Association …

DREAM: a distributed model for runoff, evapotranspiration, and antecedent soil moisture simulation

S Manfreda, M Fiorentino… - Advances in …, 2005 - adgeo.copernicus.org
The paper introduces a semi-distributed hydrological model, suitable for continuous
simulations, based upon the use of daily and hourly time steps. The model is called Distributed …

A digital elevation model based method for a rapid estimation of flood inundation depth

S Manfreda, C Samela - Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the acquisition of data from multiple sources, together with improvements in
computational capabilities, has allowed to improve our understanding on natural hazard …

Flood-prone areas assessment using linear binary classifiers based on flood maps obtained from 1D and 2D hydraulic models

S Manfreda, C Samela, A Gioia, GG Consoli… - Natural Hazards, 2015 - Springer
The identification of flood-prone areas is a critical issue becoming everyday more pressing
for our society. A preliminary delineation can be carried out by DEM-based procedures that …