Category: Publications
HydroLAB welcomes Christopher Gilberti, meteorologist and Fulbright grantee, at DICEA – University of Naples Federico II until June 2027 to study the atmospheric patterns behind extreme floods in Southern Italy.
New Springer chapter: tested with local experts at eight OurMED sites, our framework shows why Nature-based Solutions must be co-designed with local knowledge.
On 25 September 2026 Prof. Salvatore Manfreda gives the NUIST–IMSA Hydrology Webinar on how drones, satellites, cameras and AI are changing river monitoring and flood assessment. On campus in Nanjing and online on Microsoft Teams.
Angelo Avino (HydroLAB, University of Naples Federico II) wins the GII “Fabio Rossi” Prize for the best PhD thesis in Hydrology and Soil Protection, awarded at IDRA 2026.
The Share Africa MOOC “Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Water Management”, developed with Federica Web Learning (University of Naples Federico II), is now online: non-contact monitoring, remote sensing and data-driven approaches for water resources.
Applications are now open for our 5-day short course “Remote Sensing for Hydrogeomorphic Modeling: From Techniques to Applications”, part of the 2027 IAHS Academy and promoted by the IAHS MOXXI Working Group. The course will…
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…
Share_Africa International Workshop — “What Next?” Digital Cooperation · Research · Hydrological Monitoring 📍 Tunis · École Nationale d’IngĂ©nieurs de Tunis (ENIT) — 3 June 2026, 15:00–18:45 On 3 June 2026, the international workshop “Share_Africa:…
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…
Bibliometric analysis of HydroLAB (UNINA): 4,948 citing documents from 130 countries and a 409-author collaboration network in hydrology and remote sensing.
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…
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…