Maria Nicolina Ripa

Prof. Maria Nicolina Ripa

Department of Agricultural and Forestry scieNcEs (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, Via S. Camillo de Lellis, SNC, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
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Academic Career Length

22Years (2005-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 July 2009 in Journal of Environmental Management
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Antonio LeoneAntonio Leone
Antonio Leone
Maria Nicolina RipaMaria Nicolina Ripa
Maria Nicolina Ripa
VUVito Felice Uricchio
Vito Felice Uricchio
JDJ. Deák
J. Deák
ZVZ. Vargay
Z. Vargay

28 August 2007 in Soil Use and Management
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Peter StraussPeter Strauss
Peter Strauss
Antonio LeoneAntonio Leone
Antonio Leone
Maria Nicolina RipaMaria Nicolina Ripa
Maria Nicolina Ripa
NTN. Turpin
N. Turpin
JLJ.‐M. Lescot
J.‐M. Lescot
RLR. Laplana
R. Laplana


16 September 2018 in Sustainability
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FRFabio Recanatesi
Fabio Recanatesi
CGChiara Giuliani
Chiara Giuliani
Maria Nicolina RipaMaria Nicolina Ripa
Maria Nicolina Ripa
Climate change and human activities in particular are important causes of the possible variations in Mediterranean basin forest health conditions. Over the last decades, deciduous oak-forest mortality has been a recurrent problem in central and southern Italy. Despite the perception of increasingly visible damage in oak forests in drought sites, the role of various environmental factors in their decline is not completely clear. Among the modern methods of monitoring terrestrial ecosystems, remote sensing is of prime importance thanks to its ability to provide synoptic information on large areas with a high frequency of acquisition. This paper reports the preliminary results regarding a replicable and low cost monitoring tool planned to quantify forest health conditions based on the application of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), using the diachronic images provided by the Sentinel-2 satellite. The study area is represented by a peri-urban forest of natural Mediterranean deciduous oaks, characterized by a high variability in the composition of the species and in the silvicultural structures. In order to monitor the health conditions of a specific forest canopy cover with remote sensing data, it is necessary to classify the forest canopy cover in advance to separate it from other species and from the Mediterranean scrub. This is due to the spatial distribution of vegetation and the high rate of biodiversity in the Mediterranean natural environment. To achieve this, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, forest management data and field sampling data were analyzed. The main results of this research show a widespread decline in oak health conditions over the observed period (2015–2017). Specifically, for the studied area, thanks to the specific localization of the oak canopy cover, we detected a high potential concerning the Sentinel-2 data application in monitoring forest health conditions by NDVI application.

1 November 2015 in Land Use Policy
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FGFederica Gobattoni
Federica Gobattoni
Raffaele PelorossoRaffaele Pelorosso
Raffaele Pelorosso
Antonio LeoneAntonio Leone
Antonio Leone
Maria Nicolina RipaMaria Nicolina Ripa
Maria Nicolina Ripa

15 June 2006 in Environmental Management
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Maria Nicolina RipaMaria Nicolina Ripa
Maria Nicolina Ripa
Antonio LeoneAntonio Leone
Antonio Leone
MGMONICA GARNIER
MONICA GARNIER
Antonio Lo PortoAntonio Lo Porto
Antonio Lo Porto