Michele Torresani

📢Our latest publication reviewing the Spectral Variation Hypothesis for biodiversity estimation using remote sensing data is now online!🛰️🌳We explored SVH's application across ecosystems, remote sensing data, metrics, uncertainties, and future directions sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

bye bye X...now you can find my research updates here bsky.app/profile/michel… and here linkedin.com/in/michele-tor…

If you missed my talk you can find it here: youtube.com/live/cEimniGhI…

Just returned from the @esa #biospace25 conference hold in Frascati-Rome where I present my research on the link between different aspects of #biodiversity and vegetation height heterogeneity, assessed through remote sensing data🌲🛰️

in collaboration with: @unibz_news , @EuracAlpine, @marco_mina_ , @ChrisRossi9026, AVT sensing Italia, Roberto Tognetti, Luca Corlatti, Luca Pedrotti, Sebastian Marzini.

Kick-off for the #MAP-Rezia Project! (~€1M, @Interreg_IT_CH ) to monitor biodiversity in #ParcoNazionaledelloStelvio & #SchweizerischerNationalpark! We'll use remote sensing to map ecosystems, track herbivores & assess forest scenarios under climate change. 🚀🌍

Have you ever thought using LiDAR from mobile, terrestrial, and spaceborne @GEDI_Knights combined with optical and radar satellite data @CopernicusEU , to characterize forest structural complexity?🌲🛰️ We did! Check out this paper, led by Patrick Kacic sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

During the war in Ukraine, alongside the devastating loss of human lives, vast areas of forests have also been destroyed. In this new paper, we estimated this forest loss using AI and remote sensing data. 🌲📡 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share I’ve joined the Editorial Board of Community Ecology (Springer: link.springer.com/journal/42974)! 🌍📖 Looking forward to contributing to its mission and promoting impactful work, especially bridging ecological research with remote sensing technologies 🌲🛰️

Registrations are now closed for the Lidar data analysis in R course led by @torre_mic See you in February: physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…

New publication: Schiefer "Large-scale remote sensing reveals that tree mortality in Germany appears to be greater than previously expected" doi.org/10.1093/forest… Felix Schiefer, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Henrik Hartmann, Florian Schnabel , Teja Kattenborn (1/4)

🛰️ 🌳 Happy to be part of the team pioneering a remote-sensing framework combining #LiDAR and RGB(I)/MS sensors to revolutionize #forest monitoring. Recently applied in Paraguay and Germany, this approach unlocks insights for sustainability & biodiversity #conservation.

In a recent publication @TFCJournal involving our research group, M. Erdozain contributed to assessing #forest management effects on #habitat areas & #biodiversity based on #LiDAR information, integrating research, monitoring & landscape ecology pubs.cif-ifc.org/doi/10.5558/tf…

Excited to share the article "Mapping Green Carbon" published in @LiDAR_Mag! 🌿 Discover how #LiDAR tech is revolutionizing tropical dry #forest conservation in #Ecuador. Read more: lidarmag.com/2024/12/30/map… #Conservation #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #IPCC #UNFCCC #biomass #las

Two weeks left to apply for this @NERC_TREES_DLA PhD project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators supervised by me & @chickpeaman. Please contact me if you are interested 🐝🌼🌳🌲 trees-dla.ac.uk/apply

Hi all, Happy New Year🍾 If you want to start 2025 learning about LiDAR technology and its practical applications in ecology using R, do not miss this course with @torre_mic There is ONLY 1 seat left: physalia-courses.org/courses-worksh…

In our recent paper led by M. Ny Aina Rakotoarivony, we showed that combining hyperspectral data with fine-resolution multispectral data significantly improves our ability to map the spatial distribution of invasive plants. #NASA_SBG #cube_sats #fusion doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.…

🫰 JFR new paper: Forest reduce Anxiety The evidence for stress recovery in forest therapy programs: investigating whether forest walking and guided forest therapy activities have the same potential? 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s11676… #UrbanForestry #ForestTherapy #AnxietyReduction

Plant–soil feedback drives the ‘nursing effect’ on Sitka spruce 🌲 Provides a mechanistic explanation for both long-held observations of nursing effects in forestry systems and for biodiversity effects in natural woodlands 🌱 🔗doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Anthropogenic #activities & #disturbances significantly alter & homogenize #plant #functional #diversity 🌳🌲🍀☘🌿🌱🌾🌼 compared to natural habitats in Europe shorturl.at/EhLA5

We are seeking a Ph.D. student for our recently NASA-funded HI-GRASS project, which uses imaging spectroscopy to uncover the factors influencing grassland aboveground and belowground biodiversity hamedgholizadeh.wixsite.com/mysite/grassla…