Submitted in peer reviewed journals:
- De Lannoy, G. et al. Contributions of irrigation modeling, soil moisture and snow data assimilation to the skill of high-resolution digital replicas of the Po basin water budget. ESS Open Archive, 10.22541/essoar.171535793.33881670/v1. May 10, 2024.
Published in peer reviewed journals:
- Zappa, L., Dari, J., Modanesi, S., Quast, R., Brocca, L., Lannoy, G.D., Massari, C., Seguí, P.Q., Ortiz, A.B., Dorigo, W. Benefits and pitfalls of irrigation timing and water amounts derived from satellite soil moisture. Agric. Water Manag. 2024, 295, 108773.
- Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Camici, S., Ciabatta, L., Dari, J., Filippucci, P., Massari, C., Modanesi, S., Tarpanelli, A., Bonaccorsi, B., Mosaffa, H., Wagner, W., Vreugdenhil, M., Quast, R., Alfieri, L, Gabellani, S., Avanzi, F., Rains, D., Miralles, D.G., Mantovani, S., Briese, C., Domeneghetti, A., Jacob, A., Castelli, M., Camps-Valls, G., Volden, E., Fernandez, D. A Digital Twin of the terrestrial water cycle: a glimpse into the future through high-resolution Earth observations Front. Sci., 1 (2024), 10.3389/fsci.2023.1190191
- Girotto, M., Formetta, G., Azimi, S., Bachand, C., Cowherd, M., De Lannoy, G., Lievens, H., Modanesi, S., Raleigh, M.S., Rigon, R., Massari, C. Identifying snowfall elevation patterns by assimilating satellite-based snow depth retrievals, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 906,167312, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167312, 2024.
- Azimi, S., Massari, C., Formetta, G., Barbetta, S., Tazioli, A., Fronzi, D., Modanesi, S., Tarpanelli, A., and Rigon, R.: On understanding mountainous carbonate basins of the Mediterranean using parsimonious modeling solutions, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 4485–4503, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4485-2023, 2023.
- Bechtold, M., Modanesi, S., Lievens, H., Baguis, P., Brangers, I., Carrassi, A., ... & De Lannoy, G. (2023). Assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter into a land surface model with river routing and its impact on streamflow simulations in two Belgian catchments. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(12), 2389-2408, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0198.1
- Natali, M., Modanesi, S., Massari, C., Brocca, L., De Lannoy, G., J. M. Maino, A., Mantovan, F. A simple framework to calibrate a soil water balance model with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 observations over irrigated fields. IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry, 2023
- Massari, C., Pellet, V., Tramblay, Y., Crow, W. T., Gründemann, G. J., Hascoetf, T., Penna, D., Modanesi, S., Brocca, L., Camici, S., & Marra, F. On the relation between antecedent basin conditions and runoff coefficient for European floods. Journal of Hydrology, 625, 130012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130012, 2024
- Kragh, S. J., Dari, J., Modanesi, S., Massari, C., Brocca, L., Fensholt, R., Stisen, S., and Koch, J.: An inter-comparison of approaches and frameworks to quantify irrigation from satellite data, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 441–457, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-441-2024, 2024.
- Dari, J., Brocca, L., Modanesi, S., Massari, C., Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., Quast, R., Vreugdenhil, M., Freeman, V., Barella-Ortiz, A., Quintana-Seguí, P., Bretreger, D., and Volden, E.: Regional data sets of high-resolution (1 and 6 km) irrigation estimates from space, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 1555–1575, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1555-2023, 2023
- Le Page M, Nguyen T, Zribi M, Boone A, Dari J, Modanesi S, Zappa L, Ouaadi N, Jarlan L. Irrigation Timing Retrieval at the Plot Scale Using Surface Soil Moisture Derived from Sentinel Time Series in Europe. Remote Sensing. 2023; 15(5):1449. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051449
- Baguis, P., Carrassi, A., Roulin, E., Vannitsem, S., Modanesi, S., Lievens, H., Bechtold, M., De Lannoy, G. Assimilation of Backscatter Observations into a Hydrological Model: A Case Study in Belgium Using ASCAT Data. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 5740. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14225740
- Modanesi, S., Massari, C., Bechtold, M., Lievens, H., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Zappa, L., De Lannoy, G.J.M. Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 2022, 26, 4685-4706. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4685-2022
- Elwan, E., Le Page, M., Jarlan L., Baghdadi, N., Brocca, L., Modanesi, S., Dari, J., Quintana-Seguí, P., Zribi, M. Irrigation Mapping on Two Contrasted Climatic Contexts Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data. Water, 2022, 14(5), 804. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w14050804
- Modanesi, S., Massari, C., Gruber, A., Lievens, H., Tarpanelli, A., Morbidelli, R., and De Lannoy, G. J. M.: Optimizing a backscatter forward operator using Sentinel-1 data over irrigated land, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 6283–6307, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6283-2021, 2021
- Modanesi, S., Dari, J., Massari, C., Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., De Lannoy, G., Gruber, A., Lievens, H., Bechtold, M., Quast, R., Vreugdenhil, M.; Zribi, M., Le Page, M.,Brocca, L. A comparison between satellite- and model-based approaches developed in the ESA Irrigation+ project framework to estimate irrigation quantities. 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor), 268-272. doi: 10.1109/MetroAgriFor52389.2021.9628453
- Massari, C.; Modanesi, S.; Dari, J.; Gruber, A.; De Lannoy, G.J.M.; Girotto, M.; Quintana-Seguí, P.; Le Page, M.; Jarlan, L.; Zribi, M.; Ouaadi, N.; Vreugdenhil, M.; Zappa, L.; Dorigo, W.; Wagner, W.; Brombacher, J.; Pelgrum, H.; Jaquot, P.; Freeman, V.; Volden, E.; Fernandez Prieto, D.; Tarpanelli, A.; Barbetta, S.; Brocca, L. A review of irrigation information retrievals from space and their utility for users. Remote Sens., 2021, 13(20), 4112. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13204112
- De Santis, D.; Biondi, D.; Crow, W.T.; Camici, S.; Modanesi, S.; Brocca, L.; Massari, C. Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture Products for River Flow Prediction: An Extensive Experiment in over 700 Catchments throughout Europe. Water Resources Research, 2021, 57, 6. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029643
- Modanesi, S.; Massari, C.; Camici, S.; Brocca, L.; Amarnath, G. Do Satellite Surface Soil Moisture Observations Better Retain Information About Crop-Yield Variability in Drought Conditions? Water Resources Research, 2020, 56 ,2. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025855
- Azimi, S., Dariane, AB., Modanesi, S., Bauer-Marschallinger, B., Bindlish, R., Wagner, W., Massari, C. Assimilation of Sentinel 1 and SMAP - based satellite soil moisture retrievals into SWAT hydrological model: the impact of satellite revisit time and product spatial resolution on flood simulations in small basins. J Hydrol (Amst). 2020, 581:124367. Epub 2019 Nov 22. PMID: 33154604; PMCID: PMC7608049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124367
- Bauer-Marschallinger, B.; Naeimi, V.; Cao, S.; Paulik, C.; Schaufler, S.; Stachl, T.; Modanesi, S.; Massari, C.; Ciabatta, L.; Brocca, L.; Wagner, W. Towards Global Soil Moisture Monitoring with Sentinel-1: Harnessing Assets and Overcoming Obstacles. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2858004
- Bauer-Marschallinger, B.; Paulik, C.; Hochstöger, S.; Mistelbauer, T.; Modanesi, S.; Ciabatta, L.; Massari, C.; Brocca, L.; Wagner, W. Soil Moisture from Fusion of Scatterometer and SAR: Closing the Scale Gap with Temporal Filtering. Remote Sens., 2018, 10(7), 1030. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071030