Mapping Soil Moisture from Satellites to Centimetres: A Two-Step Random Forest Downscaling Framework
How do you see soil moisture at the scale of a single field when your data comes from space? Satellite and land-surface-model products map surface soil moisture across whole regions, but only at kilometre-scale resolution…
🏆 We are proud to share that Prof. Salvatore Manfreda has been awarded the Tunisia Water Award – Ibn Shabbat Award 2026, presented during the Sustain Tunis 2026 International Conference on Water & Ecosystem Resilience (Tunis, 2–4 June 2026). The…
GFI 2.0 is an enhanced version of the Geomorphic Flood Index designed to overcome one of the main limitations of DEM-based flood mapping: the inability of purely geomorphic methods to reproduce confluence-controlled backwater effects. By…
We conducted a bibliometric analysis of our the publications citing our work. From 90 countries across 6 continents, the scientific community is actively mentioning the works conducted at HydoLAB. China 🇨🇳 (495), Italy 🇮🇹 (470),…
We are delighted that Ateneapoli has dedicated an in-depth feature to S.H.A.R.E. Africa and, in particular, to the course on innovative technologies for sustainable water resource management, coordinated by Prof. Salvatore Manfreda. A training experience…
The Geomorphic Flood Index (GFI) v2.0 is a MATLAB-based toolbox for the rapid and reliable delineation of flood-prone areas, designed with a particular focus on data-scarce environments where detailed hydraulic modelling is not feasible. What’s…
UAS for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation & Riverine Environments – HydroLAB HydroLAB · Books Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments Editors: Salvatore Manfreda & Eyal Ben-Dor Publisher: Elsevier · Earth Observation Series…
Southern Italy (the Mezzogiorno), an integral part of the Mediterranean basin, today stands at the crossroads of historical water scarcity, growing climatic pressure, and infrastructural fragility. The Mediterranean is a climate-change hotspot, and southern Italy—besides…
🌍 Webinar title: Next-Generation River Monitoring: Images, Algorithms, and People 📅 Date & time: 11 February 2026, 11:00 CET 🎥 Recording: the webinar will be premiered on our YouTube channel 🔗 Join via Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/38048609756602?p=9rK1Dm65zjO5DHm4Cv Meeting ID: 380 486 097 566 02…
Hydrological calibration in data-scarce catchments is challenged by non-stationary regimes, fragmented data, and systematic measurement errors. Conventional calibration approaches often assume continuous records and rely on standard performance metrics, which can bias calibration toward high…
This week we launched the first IAHS Academy course: “Advanced Hydrological Monitoring”, hosted by Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), Ningbo, China. A strong, highly engaged cohort of students is joining us to work hands-on across key themes in next-generation…
Join to the International Conference Sustain Tunis 2026 on Water and Ecosystem Resilience under a Changing Hydrological Cycle 📍 Tunis, Tunisia — June 2–4, 2026 We are excited to invite researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and all…
Water resources in Iraq are considered among the elements most affected by climate change, particularly water bodies. Water loss from reservoirs through evaporation is one of the main losses in semi-arid countries, so a study…