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Dr. Flavio Lupia
CREA Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, Via Po 14, 00198 Rome, Italy

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Published: 30 April 2021 in Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
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Bioenergy from renewable resources plays a central role in the transition toward net-zero emission of carbon dioxide and low-energy circular economy. The main objective of this work was to examine the main challenges and opportunities for producing renewable biomass feedstocks and developing realistic bioenergy value chain s in the European Union. The main support schemes and regulatory instruments were investigated, linking sustainability issues, certification schemes and smart farming examples for promoting market uptake in a framework of the sustainable energy cropping system.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Filiberto Altobelli; Guido Bonati; Flavio Lupia. Challenges and Opportunities for Growing Bioenergy Crops in the EU: Linking Support Schemes With Sustainability Issues Towards Carbon Neutrality. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences 2021, 1 .

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Giuseppe Pulighe, Filiberto Altobelli, Guido Bonati, Flavio Lupia. Challenges and Opportunities for Growing Bioenergy Crops in the EU: Linking Support Schemes With Sustainability Issues Towards Carbon Neutrality. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. 2021; ():1.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Filiberto Altobelli; Guido Bonati; Flavio Lupia. 2021. "Challenges and Opportunities for Growing Bioenergy Crops in the EU: Linking Support Schemes With Sustainability Issues Towards Carbon Neutrality." Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences , no. : 1.

Opinion
Published: 19 June 2020 in Sustainability
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The COVID-19 emergency has revealed the extreme fragility of large cities to unexpected complex global risks and crises. City lockdown has led to increasing awareness of the vital importance of food availability for citizens. The combined effect of border closure and movement restrictions increased food losses and export costs, especially for vegetables and perishable goods exposing non-self-sufficient countries. We claim the idea that urban agriculture in developed countries should be fostered with emerging growing practices and edible green infrastructures, such as vertical farming, hydroponics, aeroponic, aquaponic, and rooftop greenhouses. Notwithstanding the limitations of traditional urban farming activities, innovative and disruptive solutions and short food supply chains of fresh agricultural products might play a positive role in lessening uncertainties from global systemic risks.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Flavio Lupia. Food First: COVID-19 Outbreak and Cities Lockdown a Booster for a Wider Vision on Urban Agriculture. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5012 .

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Giuseppe Pulighe, Flavio Lupia. Food First: COVID-19 Outbreak and Cities Lockdown a Booster for a Wider Vision on Urban Agriculture. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5012.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Flavio Lupia. 2020. "Food First: COVID-19 Outbreak and Cities Lockdown a Booster for a Wider Vision on Urban Agriculture." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5012.

Journal article
Published: 18 December 2019 in Agronomy
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Predicting the availability and quality of freshwater resources is a pressing concern in the Mediterranean area, where a number of agricultural systems depend solely on precipitation. This study aims at predicting streamflow and nonpoint pollutant loads in a temporary river system in the Mediterranean basin (Sulcis area, Sardinia, Italy). Monthly discharge, suspended sediment, nitrate nitrogen, total nitrogen, mineral phosphorus, and dissolved oxygen in-stream monitoring data from gauge stations were used to calibrate and validate the Soil and Water Assessment Tool model for the period 1979–2009. A Sequential Uncertainty Fitting procedure was used to auto-calibrate parameter uncertainties and model evaluation. Monthly simulation during the validation period showed a positive model performance for streamflow with Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency and percent bias values of 0.7% and 18.7%, respectively. The simulation results at a watershed level indicate that the sediment load was 1.13 t ha−1 year−1, while for total nitrogen and total phosphorus, the simulated values were 4.8 and 1.18 kg ha−1 year−1, respectively. These results were consistent with the values of soil and nutrient losses observed in the Mediterranean area, although hot-spot areas with high nutrient loadings were identified. The calibrated model could be used to assess long-term impacts on water quality associated with the simulated land use scenarios.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Guido Bonati; Marco Colangeli; Lorenzo Traverso; Flavio Lupia; Filiberto Altobelli; Anna Dalla Marta; Marco Napoli. Predicting Streamflow and Nutrient Loadings in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Watershed with Ephemeral Streams Using the SWAT Model. Agronomy 2019, 10, 2 .

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Giuseppe Pulighe, Guido Bonati, Marco Colangeli, Lorenzo Traverso, Flavio Lupia, Filiberto Altobelli, Anna Dalla Marta, Marco Napoli. Predicting Streamflow and Nutrient Loadings in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Watershed with Ephemeral Streams Using the SWAT Model. Agronomy. 2019; 10 (1):2.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Guido Bonati; Marco Colangeli; Lorenzo Traverso; Flavio Lupia; Filiberto Altobelli; Anna Dalla Marta; Marco Napoli. 2019. "Predicting Streamflow and Nutrient Loadings in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Watershed with Ephemeral Streams Using the SWAT Model." Agronomy 10, no. 1: 2.

Journal article
Published: 15 October 2019 in Remote Sensing
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Assessing crop yield trends over years is a key step in site specific management, in view of improving the economic and environmental profile of agriculture. This study was conducted in a 11.07 ha area under Mediterranean climate in Northern Italy to evaluate the spatial variability and the relationships between six remotely sensed vegetation indices (VIs) and grain yield (GY) in five consecutive years. A total of 25 satellite (Landsat 5, 7, and 8) images were downloaded during crop growth to obtain the following VIs: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI), Green Chlorophyll Index (GCI), and Simple Ratio (SR). The surveyed crops were durum wheat in 2010, sunflower in 2011, bread wheat in 2012 and 2014, and coriander in 2013. Geo-referenced GY and VI data were used to generate spatial trend maps across the experimental field through geostatistical analysis. Crop stages featuring the best correlations between VIs and GY at the same spatial resolution (30 m) were acknowledged as the best periods for GY prediction. Based on this, 2–4 VIs were selected each year, totalling 15 VIs in the five years with r values with GY between 0.729** and 0.935**. SR and NDVI were most frequently chosen (six and four times, respectively) across stages from mid vegetative to mid reproductive growth. Conversely, SAVI never had correlations high enough to be selected. Correspondence analysis between remote VIs and GY based on quantile ranking in the 126 (30 m size) pixels exhibited a final agreement between 64% and 86%. Therefore, Landsat imagery with its spatial and temporal resolution proved a good potential for estimating final GY over different crops in a rotation, at a relatively small field scale.

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Abid Ali; Roberta Martelli; Flavio Lupia; Lorenzo Barbanti. Assessing Multiple Years’ Spatial Variability of Crop Yields Using Satellite Vegetation Indices. Remote Sensing 2019, 11, 2384 .

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Abid Ali, Roberta Martelli, Flavio Lupia, Lorenzo Barbanti. Assessing Multiple Years’ Spatial Variability of Crop Yields Using Satellite Vegetation Indices. Remote Sensing. 2019; 11 (20):2384.

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Abid Ali; Roberta Martelli; Flavio Lupia; Lorenzo Barbanti. 2019. "Assessing Multiple Years’ Spatial Variability of Crop Yields Using Satellite Vegetation Indices." Remote Sensing 11, no. 20: 2384.

Journal article
Published: 27 March 2019 in Sustainability
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Urban agriculture in Global North cities is strongly promoted as a sustainable solution to achieve different goals, such as food production, quality of life, and well-being. Although several attempts have been made to evaluate urban agriculture production, few studies have investigated food production in a multitemporal geospatial way and considered per capita population needs, gender, and age strata consumption. This study presents a spatiotemporal quantification of urban agriculture in the city of Milan (Italy) for assessing food self-provisioning potential. We utilized high-resolution Google Earth images and ancillary data to create a detailed cadaster of urban agriculture for the years 2007 and 2014. Based on four scenarios of food production and statistical data on vegetables and cereals consumption, we estimated current total production and requirements for the city dwellers. Our results showed that the actual extension of vegetable gardens (98 ha) and arable land (2539 ha) in the best scenario could satisfy approximately 63,700 and 321,000 consumers of vegetables and cereal products, respectively. Overall, current urban agriculture production is not able to meet vegetables and cereal consumption for more than 1.3 million city residents. Scenario estimates suggest rethinking land use promoting horticultural production to achieve more sustainable food systems.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Flavio Lupia. Multitemporal Geospatial Evaluation of Urban Agriculture and (Non)-Sustainable Food Self-Provisioning in Milan, Italy. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1846 .

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Giuseppe Pulighe, Flavio Lupia. Multitemporal Geospatial Evaluation of Urban Agriculture and (Non)-Sustainable Food Self-Provisioning in Milan, Italy. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (7):1846.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Flavio Lupia. 2019. "Multitemporal Geospatial Evaluation of Urban Agriculture and (Non)-Sustainable Food Self-Provisioning in Milan, Italy." Sustainability 11, no. 7: 1846.

Articles
Published: 20 June 2018 in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
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The paper proposes a methodology to assess water consumption in urban agriculture. Green and blue water footprints were calculated for five selected community gardens (CGs) in Rome (Italy) based on weather, crops, and yields. Then, the water requirement for all the CGs of the city, identified by means of a geodatabase, was estimated. For a cultivated area of 4.06 ha, an overall water requirement of 22,036 m3 (13,596 m3 green and 8,440 m3 blue) resulted from the assessment. Considering also the efficiency of the irrigation system, blue water consumption would reach 20,000 m3 in the worst scenario (furrow irrigation).

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Anna Dalla Marta; Ada Baldi; Anna Lenzi; Flavio Lupia; Giuseppe Pulighe; Emanuele Santini; Simone Orlandini; Filiberto Altobelli. A methodological approach for assessing the impact of urban agriculture on water resources: a case study for community gardens in Rome (Italy). Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 2018, 43, 228 -240.

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Anna Dalla Marta, Ada Baldi, Anna Lenzi, Flavio Lupia, Giuseppe Pulighe, Emanuele Santini, Simone Orlandini, Filiberto Altobelli. A methodological approach for assessing the impact of urban agriculture on water resources: a case study for community gardens in Rome (Italy). Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 2018; 43 (2):228-240.

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Anna Dalla Marta; Ada Baldi; Anna Lenzi; Flavio Lupia; Giuseppe Pulighe; Emanuele Santini; Simone Orlandini; Filiberto Altobelli. 2018. "A methodological approach for assessing the impact of urban agriculture on water resources: a case study for community gardens in Rome (Italy)." Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 43, no. 2: 228-240.

Preprint
Published: 26 September 2017
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Water managers need map of irrigated areas (defined as the identification of their location and their areal extent) to plan a rational use of water under limited availability and to prevent the unauthorized withdrawals. Many authors have shown that the Earth Observation techniques are an effective tool for mapping irrigated areas worldwide at different spatial scales (global/regional/and local). This study presents a methodology for mapping irrigated areas in semi-arid environment based on Earth Observation techniques and by fully exploiting datasets freely available processed by open source software and tools. Data acquired with the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the new Sentinel 2A MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) sensors were integrated to obtain cloud free dense time series allowing to monitor the vegetation development throughout the growing seasons. Irrigated areas were identified by analysing the growing patterns under water deficit conditions from NDVI values under the assumption that, in arid and semi-arid environment (like the Mediterranean Region), high trend of vegetation growth are compatible only with irrigation. The method was applied inside the Cixerri Consortium Irrigation District located in South of Sardinia (Italy).

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Pasquale Nino; Silvia Vanino; Flavio Lupia; Guido D'urso; Carlo De Michele; Giuseppe Pulighe; Guido Bonati. Mapping irrigated areas using multi-sensor remote sensing data in a Mediterranean environment. 2017, 1 .

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Pasquale Nino, Silvia Vanino, Flavio Lupia, Guido D'urso, Carlo De Michele, Giuseppe Pulighe, Guido Bonati. Mapping irrigated areas using multi-sensor remote sensing data in a Mediterranean environment. . 2017; ():1.

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Pasquale Nino; Silvia Vanino; Flavio Lupia; Guido D'urso; Carlo De Michele; Giuseppe Pulighe; Guido Bonati. 2017. "Mapping irrigated areas using multi-sensor remote sensing data in a Mediterranean environment." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 25 May 2017 in Agriculture
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Homegrown fruits and vegetables are gaining popularity in many metropolitan areas with several facets connected to the wider urban agriculture phenomenon. At the same time, the relationship between urban food production and irrigation water is pivotal in terms of resource management. In this paper, we investigated water savings through the collection and use of harvestable rainwater from buildings’ rooftops to irrigate 2631 fruits and vegetables gardens in the urban area of Rome (Italy). The methodology makes use of existing geospatial data and data derived from satellite image classification to estimate food gardens’ irrigation requirements and harvestable rainwater from nearby buildings’ rooftops. The comparison of the annual harvestable rainwater with irrigation needs allowed for computing the proportion of water self-sufficient gardens as well as the amount of gardens whose water needs might be partially fulfilled with rainwater. Statistics were produced by land use type (horticulture, mixed crops, olive groves, orchards, and vineyards) and under the hypothesis that irrigation systems with low and high field application efficiency might be employed. We found that 19% and 33% of the gardens could be water self-sufficient for the low and high irrigation efficiency scenario, respectively. The remaining gardens, by using the available rainwater, could satisfy 22% (low efficiency) and 44% (high efficiency) of the water needs resulting in a reduction in the use of conventional water sources.

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Flavio Lupia; Valerio Baiocchi; Keti Lelo; Giuseppe Pulighe. Exploring Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting Potential for Food Production in Urban Areas. Agriculture 2017, 7, 46 .

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Flavio Lupia, Valerio Baiocchi, Keti Lelo, Giuseppe Pulighe. Exploring Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting Potential for Food Production in Urban Areas. Agriculture. 2017; 7 (6):46.

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Flavio Lupia; Valerio Baiocchi; Keti Lelo; Giuseppe Pulighe. 2017. "Exploring Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting Potential for Food Production in Urban Areas." Agriculture 7, no. 6: 46.

Journal article
Published: 10 February 2017 in Urban Water Journal
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A dimensionless methodology to evaluate the water saving obtainable from large-scale implementation of domestic rain water harvesting (RWH) systems in urban areas is presented. The methodology combines the use of regressive relationships for water saving evaluation based on the results of the dimensionless rainwater tank water balance and of catchment-wide information obtained from geospatial databases. The adopted RWH scheme included internal use of rainwater for toilet flushing and external use for garden irrigation. An application to a portion of the city of Rome, Italy showed the methodology to allow systematic and accurate evaluation of RWH system performance at the selected urban scale. Results pointed out high water saving potential for toilet flushing ranging between 38–65% for tank sizes within 1–50 m3. Furthermore, more than one third of the systems provided water saving benefit for irrigation larger than 20% by using a 50 m3 tank.

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Alberto Campisano; Flavio Lupia. A dimensionless approach for the urban-scale evaluation of domestic rainwater harvesting systems for toilet flushing and garden irrigation. Urban Water Journal 2017, 14, 883 -891.

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Alberto Campisano, Flavio Lupia. A dimensionless approach for the urban-scale evaluation of domestic rainwater harvesting systems for toilet flushing and garden irrigation. Urban Water Journal. 2017; 14 (9):883-891.

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Alberto Campisano; Flavio Lupia. 2017. "A dimensionless approach for the urban-scale evaluation of domestic rainwater harvesting systems for toilet flushing and garden irrigation." Urban Water Journal 14, no. 9: 883-891.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2016 in Ecosystem Services
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Giuseppe Pulighe; Francesco Pietro Fava; Flavio Lupia. Insights and opportunities from mapping ecosystem services of urban green spaces and potentials in planning. Ecosystem Services 2016, 22, 1 -10.

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Giuseppe Pulighe, Francesco Pietro Fava, Flavio Lupia. Insights and opportunities from mapping ecosystem services of urban green spaces and potentials in planning. Ecosystem Services. 2016; 22 ():1-10.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Francesco Pietro Fava; Flavio Lupia. 2016. "Insights and opportunities from mapping ecosystem services of urban green spaces and potentials in planning." Ecosystem Services 22, no. : 1-10.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2016 in Land Use Policy
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Giuseppe Pulighe; Flavio Lupia. Mapping spatial patterns of urban agriculture in Rome (Italy) using Google Earth and web-mapping services. Land Use Policy 2016, 59, 49 -58.

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Giuseppe Pulighe, Flavio Lupia. Mapping spatial patterns of urban agriculture in Rome (Italy) using Google Earth and web-mapping services. Land Use Policy. 2016; 59 ():49-58.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Flavio Lupia. 2016. "Mapping spatial patterns of urban agriculture in Rome (Italy) using Google Earth and web-mapping services." Land Use Policy 59, no. : 49-58.

Journal article
Published: 31 October 2016 in Energies
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In the context of environmental sustainability there has been an increasing interest in bioenergy production from renewable resources, and is expected that European biofuel production from energy crops will increase as a consequence of the achievement of policy targets. The aim of this paper is to assess the agronomic feasibility of biomass crop cultivation to provide profitable renewable feedstocks in a marginal and heavy-metal polluted area located in the Sulcis district, Sardinia (Italy). Results from literature review and unpublished data from field trials carried out in Sardinia were analysed to establish the main agronomic traits of crops (e.g., yield potential and input requirements). A Geographical Information System (GIS)-based procedure with remotely sensed data is also used to evaluate the land suitability and the actual land use/cover, considering a future scenario of expansion of energy crops on these marginal areas avoiding potential conflicts with food production. The results of the review suggests that giant reed, native perennial grasses and milk thistle are the most suitable energy crops for this area. The land suitability analysis shows that about 5700 ha and 1000 ha could be available for feedstock cultivation in the study area and in the most polluted area, respectively. The results obtained from land suitability process and agronomic evaluation will serve as a base to support technical and economical feasibility studies, as well as for the evaluation of environmental sustainability of the cultivation in the study area.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Guido Bonati; Stefano Fabiani; Tommaso Barsali; Flavio Lupia; Silvia Vanino; Pasquale Nino; Pasquale Arca; Pier Paolo Roggero. Assessment of the Agronomic Feasibility of Bioenergy Crop Cultivation on Marginal and Polluted Land: A GIS-Based Suitability Study from the Sulcis Area, Italy. Energies 2016, 9, 895 .

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Giuseppe Pulighe, Guido Bonati, Stefano Fabiani, Tommaso Barsali, Flavio Lupia, Silvia Vanino, Pasquale Nino, Pasquale Arca, Pier Paolo Roggero. Assessment of the Agronomic Feasibility of Bioenergy Crop Cultivation on Marginal and Polluted Land: A GIS-Based Suitability Study from the Sulcis Area, Italy. Energies. 2016; 9 (11):895.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Guido Bonati; Stefano Fabiani; Tommaso Barsali; Flavio Lupia; Silvia Vanino; Pasquale Nino; Pasquale Arca; Pier Paolo Roggero. 2016. "Assessment of the Agronomic Feasibility of Bioenergy Crop Cultivation on Marginal and Polluted Land: A GIS-Based Suitability Study from the Sulcis Area, Italy." Energies 9, no. 11: 895.

Book chapter
Published: 25 August 2016 in European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information
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Flavio Lupia; Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – CREA; Jacinto Estima; Cristina Capineri; Muki Haklay; HaoSheng Huang; Vyron Antoniou; Juhani Kettunen; Frank Ostermann; Ross Purves. Discussing the Potential of Crowdsourced Geographic Information for Urban Areas Monitoring Using the Panoramio Initiative: A Case Study in Rome, Italy. European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information 2016, 285 -294.

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Flavio Lupia, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – CREA, Jacinto Estima, Cristina Capineri, Muki Haklay, HaoSheng Huang, Vyron Antoniou, Juhani Kettunen, Frank Ostermann, Ross Purves. Discussing the Potential of Crowdsourced Geographic Information for Urban Areas Monitoring Using the Panoramio Initiative: A Case Study in Rome, Italy. European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information. 2016; ():285-294.

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Flavio Lupia; Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – CREA; Jacinto Estima; Cristina Capineri; Muki Haklay; HaoSheng Huang; Vyron Antoniou; Juhani Kettunen; Frank Ostermann; Ross Purves. 2016. "Discussing the Potential of Crowdsourced Geographic Information for Urban Areas Monitoring Using the Panoramio Initiative: A Case Study in Rome, Italy." European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information , no. : 285-294.

Journal article
Published: 13 May 2016 in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
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Geo-tagged photographs are used increasingly as a source of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), which could potentially be used for land use and land cover applications. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of using this source of spatial information for three use cases related to land cover: Calibration, validation and verification. We first provide an inventory of the metadata that are collected with geo-tagged photographs and then consider what elements would be essential, desirable, or unnecessary for the aforementioned use cases. Geo-tagged photographs were then extracted from Flickr, Panoramio and Geograph for an area of London, UK, and classified based on their usefulness for land cover mapping including an analysis of the accompanying metadata. Finally, we discuss protocols for geo-tagged photographs for use of VGI in relation to land cover applications.

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Vyron Antoniou; Cidália Costa Fonte; Linda See; Jacinto Estima; Jamal Jokar Arsanjani; Flavio Lupia; Marco Minghini; Giles M. Foody; Steffen Fritz. Investigating the Feasibility of Geo-Tagged Photographs as Sources of Land Cover Input Data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2016, 5, 64 .

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Vyron Antoniou, Cidália Costa Fonte, Linda See, Jacinto Estima, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Flavio Lupia, Marco Minghini, Giles M. Foody, Steffen Fritz. Investigating the Feasibility of Geo-Tagged Photographs as Sources of Land Cover Input Data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2016; 5 (5):64.

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Vyron Antoniou; Cidália Costa Fonte; Linda See; Jacinto Estima; Jamal Jokar Arsanjani; Flavio Lupia; Marco Minghini; Giles M. Foody; Steffen Fritz. 2016. "Investigating the Feasibility of Geo-Tagged Photographs as Sources of Land Cover Input Data." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 5, no. 5: 64.

Original articles
Published: 23 March 2015 in International Journal of Digital Earth
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Google Earth (GE) has recently become the focus of increasing interest and popularity among available online virtual globes used in scientific research projects, due to the free and easily accessed satellite imagery provided with global coverage. Nevertheless, the uses of this service raises several research questions on the quality and uncertainty of spatial data (e.g. positional accuracy, precision, consistency), with implications for potential uses like data collection and validation. This paper aims to analyze the horizontal accuracy of very high resolution (VHR) GE images in the city of Rome (Italy) for the years 2007, 2011, and 2013. The evaluation was conducted by using both Global Positioning System ground truth data and cadastral photogrammetric vertex as independent check points. The validation process includes the comparison of histograms, graph plots, tests of normality, azimuthal direction errors, and the calculation of standard statistical parameters. The results show that GE VHR imageries of Rome have an overall positional accuracy close to 1 m, sufficient for deriving ground truth samples, measurements, and large-scale planimetric maps.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Valerio Baiocchi; Flavio Lupia. Horizontal accuracy assessment of very high resolution Google Earth images in the city of Rome, Italy. International Journal of Digital Earth 2015, 9, 342 -362.

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Giuseppe Pulighe, Valerio Baiocchi, Flavio Lupia. Horizontal accuracy assessment of very high resolution Google Earth images in the city of Rome, Italy. International Journal of Digital Earth. 2015; 9 (4):342-362.

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Giuseppe Pulighe; Valerio Baiocchi; Flavio Lupia. 2015. "Horizontal accuracy assessment of very high resolution Google Earth images in the city of Rome, Italy." International Journal of Digital Earth 9, no. 4: 342-362.

Review article
Published: 17 March 2015 in International Journal of Geographical Information Science
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Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) represents a growing source of potentially valuable data for many applications, including land cover map validation. It is still an emerging field and many different approaches can be used to take value from VGI, but also many pros and cons are related to its use. Therefore, since it is timely to get an overview of the subject, the aim of this article is to review the use of VGI as reference data for land cover map validation. The main platforms and types of VGI that are used and that are potentially useful are analysed. Since quality is a fundamental issue in map validation, the quality procedures used by the platforms that collect VGI to increase and control data quality are reviewed and a framework for addressing VGI quality assessment is proposed. A review of cases where VGI was used as an additional data source to assist in map validation is made, as well as cases where only VGI was used, indicating the procedures used to assess VGI quality and fitness for use. A discussion and some conclusions are drawn on best practices, future potential and the challenges of the use of VGI for land cover map validation.

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Cidália Costa Fonte; Lucy Bastin; Linda See; Giles Foody; Flavio Lupia. Usability of VGI for validation of land cover maps. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 2015, 29, 1269 -1291.

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Cidália Costa Fonte, Lucy Bastin, Linda See, Giles Foody, Flavio Lupia. Usability of VGI for validation of land cover maps. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2015; 29 (7):1269-1291.

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Cidália Costa Fonte; Lucy Bastin; Linda See; Giles Foody; Flavio Lupia. 2015. "Usability of VGI for validation of land cover maps." International Journal of Geographical Information Science 29, no. 7: 1269-1291.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2015 in Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia
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During the last years, in the city of Rome (Italy) due to social and economical trends urban agriculture is a growing phenomenon. Residential kitchen gardens in Rome are a custom started in the past, but recently they experienced a strong increase with a concentration in the city fringe. The amount and extension of these cultivated parcels has been inventoried by the Italian Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA) in 2014 with a methodology based on photointerpretation of the very high resolution imagery provided by Google Earth. The spatial dataset, after field validation, contains around 2,700 polygons with some attributes, among which the agricultural land use (i.e. horticulture, mixed crops, orchards, vineyards and olive groves). The use of water in urban agriculture is a relevant issue both in terms of competition with other uses and in terms of safety for human health. In Rome, residential kitchen gardens may resort to municipal water supply but, due to water costs, the water abstraction from wells (legal and illegal) and canals and rivers (illegal) is common. This paper describes the estimation of the irrigation water demand of the residential kitchen gardens by taking into account various agricultural land use and two different irrigation systems. Estimations are referred to the irrigation season (April-September) by using average climatic data (1950-2000). Parcels irrigation water requirement is also evaluated in terms of sustainability by considering a scenario where rain water is harvested and stored for the irrigation season as a possible alternative or supplement to the current irrigation sources. The proposed approach could be useful for administrators for a preliminary assessment of one of the component of water use in urban areas, and to support water management activities by taking into account the beneficial role of urban agriculture

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Flavio Lupia; Giuseppe Pulighe. Water Use and Urban Agriculture: Estimation and Water Saving Scenarios for Residential Kitchen Gardens. Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia 2015, 4, 50 -58.

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Flavio Lupia, Giuseppe Pulighe. Water Use and Urban Agriculture: Estimation and Water Saving Scenarios for Residential Kitchen Gardens. Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia. 2015; 4 ():50-58.

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Flavio Lupia; Giuseppe Pulighe. 2015. "Water Use and Urban Agriculture: Estimation and Water Saving Scenarios for Residential Kitchen Gardens." Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia 4, no. : 50-58.

Journal article
Published: 07 October 2010 in Italian Journal of Agronomy
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The Southern Imera river crosses one of the most arid part of Sicily. The geochemical composition of the river water is due to the solubilization processes of gypsum rocks, which accounts for the particularly low quality of resources in the areas in which the presence of evaporitics deposits is highest. The geochemical composition and hydraulic parameters of river was monitored with the aim of reaching a better understanding of the relationships between litology and water quality. The Imera river is a potential local hydric resource, but seasonal variability of salinity does not allow farmers to use its water. A geochemical monitoring of the Imera river water has been carried out in selected localities integrating a GIS analysis of the river hydrography basin and of the distribution of the evaporitic formation. During 2003 and 2005 we performed four monitoring surveys of water chemicophysical parameters (temperature, pH and electrical conductivity) and of the main ionic concentrations (Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, Na+, Cl-, SO4 2- ). We also installed a multiparameter probe next to the hydrometrical station of Drasi, about 15 km from the river mouth. Such multiparameter probe was used to determine, continuously and simultaneously, temperature, electrical conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen, redox potenzial, water level. The geochemical composition of the water allowed to confirm the results of Roda (1971) and Favara (2000), who pointed out that the main cause of degrade of the Southern Imera river are the salt-rich waters of some tributaries flowing over gypsum rocks and halite deposits. We have been able to identify which specific areas are the main contributors to the degradation of the Imera river.

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Roberta Selvaggi; Nicola Colonna; Flavio Lupia; Maria S. Murgia; Antonio Poletti. Water Quality and Soil Natural Salinity in the Southern Imera Basin (Sicily, Italy). Italian Journal of Agronomy 2010, 5, 81-90 .

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Roberta Selvaggi, Nicola Colonna, Flavio Lupia, Maria S. Murgia, Antonio Poletti. Water Quality and Soil Natural Salinity in the Southern Imera Basin (Sicily, Italy). Italian Journal of Agronomy. 2010; 5 (3S):81-90.

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Roberta Selvaggi; Nicola Colonna; Flavio Lupia; Maria S. Murgia; Antonio Poletti. 2010. "Water Quality and Soil Natural Salinity in the Southern Imera Basin (Sicily, Italy)." Italian Journal of Agronomy 5, no. 3S: 81-90.

Book chapter
Published: 19 March 2010 in Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation and Remediation
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Mediterranean areas are characterized by strong and complex relationships between land use dynamics and land degradation process. The latter will probably worsen in the coming years because of climatic changes that are likely to cause a reduction of the quantity and quality of land resources. Understanding the relationships between land use dynamics and land degradation could allow evaluating the potential risks affecting a given area, and may provide means to implement suitable management policies for sustainable development especially in rural areas. This chapter describes the development of a methodology for the assessment of four typologies of risk in a given area (e.g. a river basin): land desertification, soil erosion, water degradation and soil sealing. This methodology could be useful for regional managers during the policy making process. The methodology was designed to provide an estimate of the risks for the current state and that for the year 2020 under various land resources management scenarios. The methodology was applied at the Ofanto river basin (South Italy). The approach we followed is expert based and makes use of GIS tools in order to produce easy to understand results and maps. It seems to be useful whenever decision makers have to deal with scarce data relative to large areas, and when different stakeholders are involved in a participative process.

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N. Colonna; F. Lupia; M. Iannetta. Severe Environmental Constraints for Mediterranean Agriculture and New Options for Water and Soil Resources Management. Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation and Remediation 2010, 477 -491.

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N. Colonna, F. Lupia, M. Iannetta. Severe Environmental Constraints for Mediterranean Agriculture and New Options for Water and Soil Resources Management. Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation and Remediation. 2010; ():477-491.

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N. Colonna; F. Lupia; M. Iannetta. 2010. "Severe Environmental Constraints for Mediterranean Agriculture and New Options for Water and Soil Resources Management." Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation and Remediation , no. : 477-491.

Conference paper
Published: 30 August 2021
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Flavio Lupia; Francesca Giarè; Valerio Baiocchi; Keti Lelo. Multi-source spatial data for a better management of rainwater and urban cultivated areas: a case study in Rome, Italy. 2021, 1 .

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Flavio Lupia, Francesca Giarè, Valerio Baiocchi, Keti Lelo. Multi-source spatial data for a better management of rainwater and urban cultivated areas: a case study in Rome, Italy. . 2021; ():1.

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Flavio Lupia; Francesca Giarè; Valerio Baiocchi; Keti Lelo. 2021. "Multi-source spatial data for a better management of rainwater and urban cultivated areas: a case study in Rome, Italy." , no. : 1.