Claudia Notarnicola - Curriculum vitae

Eurac Research, Institute for Earth Observation Viale Druso 1, 39100,Bolzano (Italy) Email: [email protected] Tel: +39 0471 055 375 Nationality: Italian Eurac webpage: http://www.eurac.edu/en/research/mountains/remsen/staff/Pages/staffdetails.aspx?persId=8523

EDUCATION 2002 PhD in Physics, Faculty of Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences/Department of Physics, University of Bari/ Italy - Prof. Francesco Posa 1995 Master in Physics, Faculty of Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences/ Department of Physics, University of Bari/ Italy

FURTHER EDUCATION 2013 Certified Project Manager IPMA Level C® achieved on 25.11.2013

CURRENT POSITION(S) 2012 – now Deputy Director at the Institute for Earth Observation Eurac Research/ Institute for Earth Observation, Bolzano/ Italy 2008 – 2012 Senior Researcher at the Institute for Earth Observation Eurac Research/ Institute for Earth Observation, Bolzano/ Italy 2014 – now Teaching Fellow - Faculty of Engineering/ Free University of Bolzano/ Italy

Major current responsibilities

Responsable of Eurac activities and WP leader in projects: PROSNOW (H2020), SECLI-FIRM (H2020), openEO (H2020), GLISTT (Interreg IT-AU), HERCULES (H2020-MSCA-RISE), SEOM-SInCohMap (ESA).

Project manager and Principal investigator of the project CRYOMON-SciPro (EUREGIO).

Lead of the “Earth Observation for Environmental monitoring” group. The group counts around 10 scientists with main expertise in remote sensing algorithms, classification, GIS and environmental applications

Contribute to strategic activities in the Institute

Research on the use of remote sensing for cryosphere and water resources monitoring in mountain areas

Main field of expertise

Development of innovative methodologies to retrieve biophysical parameters (soil moisture, evapotraspiration, vegetation parameters, snow parameters) by exploiting synergy of multi-sensor data (optical and radar) and physical based models.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS 2005 – 2007 Senior researcher and project manager, Carlo Gavazzi Space S.p.A (now Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio), Aerospace company, Milan/ Italy 2002 – 2005 Post-doc position - Polytechnic of Bari/ Italy and Faculty of Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences/ Department of Physics, University of Bari/ Italy

FELLOWSHIPS 1998 – 2001 Scholarship as PhD candidate, Faculty of Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences/ Department of Physics, University of Bari/ Italy

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS As a private non-profit research institution, we do not grant PhD titles. Therefore, all my PhD students have a formal affiliation to other universities. Since 2001, I have supervised 12 PhD students of the Universities of Teheran (Iran), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cordoba (Spain), Vienna (Austria), and of the Italian universities of Trento, Milan, Rome, Bari and Pavia. I currently supervise four of them. One of my PhD students, Dr. Callegari is now working in Eurac as a post-doc. I have supervised 3 postdoctoral fellows in the Institute for Earth Observation at Eurac Research: Dr. Sarah Asam, Dr. Mattia Callegari and Dr. Carlo Marin. I have also supervised 8 Master students.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES 2013 – 2017 Teaching Fellow for Physics I and II (Mechanical Engineering)/ Teaching Fellow for Physics (Agricultural Science), Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano/ Italy. 2012-13-16 Invited lecturer on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) application and inverse methodologies for the “Master in Space Applications for Early Warning and Response to Emergencies”, Argentinean Space Agency (Cordoba, AR)/ Argentina. 2009 – 2015 Invited lecturer on SAR processing and inverse methodologies at the Master at Politecnico di Bari “Tecnologie per il Telerilevamento Spaziale” in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency, Bari/Matera / Italy. 2009 – 2011 Contract Professor for “Remote Sensing Techniques”, University of Bari, Physics Department, Bari/ Italy

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 2017 Member of the scientific committee of Multitemp Workshop 2017, 27-29 June, Bruges/Belgium 2015 – 2018 Chairman of the SPIE conference (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) - Active and passive microwave remote sensing (different international locations for the conference) 2006 – 2015 Chairman of the SPIE conference - SAR images modelling and techniques (different international locations for the conference) 2015 Member of the scientific committee of Multitemp Workshop 2015, 22-24 July 2015, Annecy/France 2015 Member of the symposium committee of the International Symposium of Geoscience and Remote Sensing (as Private Sector Liason Co-Chair), IGARSS 2015, 27-31 July, Milan/Italy 2011 Member of the scientific committee for MultiTemp workshop, 2011, Trento/Italy 2008 – now Member of the Cassini RADAR Team in the framework of the Cassini-Huygens Mission for the exploration of the Saturn system. The mission is a joint initiative among NASA-ESA- ASI.

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 2017 Member of the European Space Agency Mission Expert Group for High Spatio- Temporal Resolution Land Surface Temperature Monitoring mission 2015 – 2019 Member of the scientific committee of the Italian Space Agency towards European Space Agency activities (2015-2019) March 2017 Invited member of the PhD committee for the PhD defence of Pierluigi Ronco, Polytechnic of Milan, Milan/ Italy Feb. 2016 Invited member of the PhD committee for the PhD defence of Ion Sola, University of Navarra, Pamplona/ Spain Feb. 2016 Invited member of the PhD committee for the PhD defence of Biagio di Mauro, University of Milano Bicocca/ Italy May 2015 Member of the PhD Committee at the University of Lausanne for the thesis of Jelena Stamenkovic, Lausanne/ Switzerland Oct. 2014 Member of the PhD Committee at the University of Twente for the thesis of M Jahanzeb Malik/ The Netherlands Dec. 2014 Member of the PhD Committee at the University of Cordoba for the thesis of Rafael Pimentel/ Spain

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST 2016 – 2018 Chairman of the Advisory Board, Earth Observation data centre for Water resources monitoring (EODC)/ Austria 2015 – now Member of the Advisory Board, Earth Observation data centre for Water resources monitoring (EODC)/ Austria 2013 – 2015 Member of the Steering Committee of the EU FP7 Project LAMPRE: Landslide Modelling and tools for vulnerability assessment Preparedness and Recovery management. Jan. 2011 Proposal evaluator for the NASA 2010 Discovery Program Science Feb. 2011 Proposal evaluator for the NASA Outer Planets Research Feb. 2008 Proposal evaluator for the projects of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) for the Announcement of Opportunity related to the exploitation of the COSMO-SkyMED data

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 2009 – now Member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), New York/ USA

PUBLICATION

Researcher ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1968-0125

Peer-reviewed publications

2018 1. R. Cazzolla Gatti, C. Notarnicola, A novel Multilevel Biodiversity Index (MBI) for combined field and satellite imagery surveys, Global Ecology and Conservation 13 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2017.e00361. 2. M. Castelli, M. C. Anderson, Y. Yang, G. Wohlfahrt, G. Bertoldi, G. Niedrist, A. Hammerle, P. Zhao, M. Zebisch, C. Notarnicola, Two-source energy balance modeling of evapotranspiration in Alpine Grasslands, Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018, 209, 327 - 342. 3. M. Mastrogiuseppe, A.G. Hayes, V. Poggiali, J.I. Lunine, R.D. Lorenz, R. Seu, A. Le Gall, C. Notarnicola, K.L. Mitchell, M. Malaska, S.P.D. Birch, Bathymetry and Composition of Titan's Ontario Lacus derived from Monte Carlo-based waveform inversion of Cassini RADAR altimetry data, ICARUS 300 (2018) 203–209. 2017 4. Wolf, B., C. Chwala, B. Fersch, J. Garvelmann, W. Junkermann, M. Zeeman, A. Angerer, B. Adler, C. Beck, C. Brosy, P. Brugger, S. Emeis, M. Dannenmann, F. De Roo, E. Diaz-Pines, E. Haas, M. Hagen, I. Hajnsek, J. Jacobeit, T. Jadghuber, N. Kalthoff, R. Kiese, H. Kunstmann, O. Kosak, R. Krieg, C. Malchow, M. Mauder, R. Merz, C. Notarnicola, A. Philipp, W. Reif, S. Reineke, T. Rödiger, N. Ruehr, K. Schäfer, M. Schrön, A. Senatore, H. Shupe, I. Voelksch, C. Wanninger, S. Zacharias, and H. Schmid, 2016: The ScaleX campaign: scale-crossing land-surface and boundary layer processes in the TERENO-preAlpine observatory. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00277.1. 5. Vaglio Laurin, G.; Pirotti, F.; Callegari, M.; Chen, Q.; Cuozzo, G.; Lingua, E.; Notarnicola, C.; Papale, D. Potential of ALOS2 and NDVI to Estimate Forest Above-Ground Biomass, and Comparison with Lidar- Derived Estimates. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 18. 6. Colliander A, Jackson TJ, Bindlish R, Chana S, Das N, Kima SB, Cosh MH, Dunbar RS, Danga L, Pashaian L, Asanuma J, Aida K, Berg A, Rowlandson T, Bosch D, Caldwell T, Caylor K, Goodrich D, al Jassar H, Lopez-Baeza E, Martínez-Fernández J, González-Zamora A, Livingston S, McNairnm H, Pacheco A, Moghaddamn M, Montzka C, Notarnicola C, Niedrist G, Pellarin T, Prueger J, Pulliainen J, Rautiainens K, Ramos J, Seyfried M, Starks P, Su Z, Zeng Y, van der Velde R, Thibeault M, Dorigo, Vreugdenhil M, Walker JP, Wu X, Monerris A, O'Neill PE, Entekhabi D, Njoku EG, Yueha S (2017). Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, vol. 191, p. 215-231, ISSN: 0034-4257, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.021 7. J. Stamenkovic, L. Guerriero, P. Ferrazzoli, C. Notarnicola, F. Greifeneder, J-P. Thiran, Soil moisture estimation by SAR in Alpine fields using Gaussian Process Regressor trained by model simulations,IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing PP(99):1-14, June 2017, DOI10.1109/TGRS.2017.2687421. 8. Ma C, Li X, Notarnicola C, Wang S, Wang W : Uncertainty Quantification of Soil Moisture Estimations Based on a Bayesian Probabilistic Inversion. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , 55 , 2017 , 6 , pp. 3194 - 3207 9. Singh M, Tokola T, Hou Z, Notarnicola, C. Remote sensing-based landscape indicators for the evaluation of threatened-bird habitats in a tropical forest. Ecol Evol. 2017;00:1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2970. 10. Xie, J., M. Kneubühler, I. Garonna, C. Notarnicola, L. De Gregorio, R. De Jong, B. Chimani, and M. E. Schaepman (2017), Altitude-dependent influence of snow cover on alpine land surface phenology, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 122, 1107-1122, doi:10.1002/2016JG003728. 11. Schlögel, R.; Thiebes, B.; Mulas, M.; Cuozzo, G.; Notarnicola, C.; Schneiderbauer, S.; Crespi, M.; Mazzoni, A.; Mair, V.; Corsini, A. Multi-Temporal X-Band Radar Interferometry Using Corner Reflectors: Application and Validation at the Corvara Landslide (Dolomites, Italy). Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 739. 12. A. C. Mondini, K-T Chang, S-H Chiang, R. Schlögel, C. Notarnicola, H. Saito, Automatic mapping of event landslides at basin scale in Taiwan using a Montecarlo approach and synthetic land cover fingerprints, Int J Appl Earth Obs Geoinformation, 63 (2017), 112-121. 13. M. Engel, C. Notarnicola, S. Endrizzi, G. Bertoldi, A sensitivity analysis of a snow model to understand spatial and temporal snow dynamic in a high-elevation catchment, Hydrological Processes · August 2017, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11314. 14. A.Pistocchi, S. Bagli, M. Callegari, C. Notarnicola, P. Mazzoli, On the Direct Calculation of Snow Water Balances Using Snow Cover Information, Water 9(11), 848, Nov. 2017. 15. L. De Gregorio, M. Callegari, P. Mazzoli, S. Bagli, D. Broccoli, A. Pistocchi, C. Notarnicola, Operational River Discharge Forecasting with Support Vector Regression Technique Applied to Alpine Catchments: Results, Advantages, Limits and Lesson Learned, Water Resources Management, Aug. 2017, DOI 10.1007/s11269-017-1806-3 16. R. Cazzolla Gatti, C. Notarnicola, A novel Multilevel Biodiversity Index (MBI) for combined field and satellite imagery surveys, Global Ecology and Conservation 13 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2017.e00361.

2016 17. D. Vincent, O. Karatekin, V. Vallaeys, A. G. Hayes, M. Mastrogiuseppe, C. Notarnicola, V. Dehant, E. Deleersnijder, Numerical study of tides in Ontario Lacus, a hydrocarbon lake on the surface of the Saturnian moon Titan, Ocean Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s10236-016-0926-2, published on line 7 March 2016. 18. J. D. Hofgartner, A.G. Hayes, J.I. Lunine, H. Zebker, R. D. Lorenz, M. J. Malaska, M. Mastrogiuseppe, C. Notarnicola, J. M. Soderblom, Titan’s “Magic Islands”: Transient features in a hydrocarbon sea, ICARUS, 271 (2016) 338–349. 19. Greifeneder, F., C. Notarnicola, G. Bertoldi, G. Niedrist, and W. Wagner. From point to pixel scale: An upscaling approach for in-situ soil moisture measurements. Vadose Zone Journal, Vol.15, Iss. 6, 2016. 20. D. Castelletti, L.Pasolli, L. Bruzzone, C.Notarnicola, B. Demir, A Novel Hybrid Method for the Correction of the Theoretical Model Inversion in Bio/Geophysical Parameter Estimation, IEEE TGRS, vol. 54, n.8, 2016. 21. F. Di Paolo, S. E. Lauro, D. Castelletti, G. Mitri, F. Bovolo, B. Cosciotti, E. Mattei, R. Orosei, C. Notarnicola, L. Bruzzone, and E. Pettinelli, Radar Signal Penetration and Horizons Detection on Europa Through Numerical Simulations, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 10, p. 118-129, ISSN: 1939-1404, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2544103. 22. M. Callegari, L. Carturan, C. Marin, C. Notarnicola, P. Rastner, R. Seppi and F. Zucca, “A Pol-SAR Analysis for Alpine Glacier Classification and Snowline Altitude Retrieval Combined with Optical Data,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 3106-3121, Jul 2016. 23. R. SOLORZA, M. COGLIATI, A.P. SALCEDO, C. NOTARNICOLA, ESTIMACIÓN DEL ÁREA CUBIERTA DE NIEVE CON DATOS SAR EN BANDA L EN UN SECTOR CORDILLERANO DE LA PATAGONIA ARGENTINA, Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 73 (3): 421 - 429 (2016).

2015 24. Pasolli, L.; Notarnicola, C.; Bruzzone, L.; Zebisch, M.; Wohlfahrt, G.: Retrieval of Green Area Index in Mountain pasture and meadows from satellite MODIS imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment 165 (2015) 159–174. 25. M. Callegari, D. Casarano, M. Mastrogiuseppe, V.Poggiali, C. Notarnicola, Dune Height Estimation on Titan Exploiting Pairs of Synthetic Aperture Radar Images With Different Observation Angles, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol.8, n.3, 1295-1306, 2015. 26. L. Pasolli, C. Notarnicola, G. Bertoldi, L. Bruzzone, R. Remelgado, F. Greifeneder, G. Niedrist, S. Della Chiesa, U. Tappeiner and M. Zebisch, Estimation of soil moisture in mountain areas using SVR technique applied to multiscale active radar images at C band, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 01/2015; 8(1):262-283. 27. M.Callegari, P.Mazzoli, L.De Gregorio, C.Notarnicola, L. Pasolli, M.Petitta, A.Pistocchi, 28. Seasonal river discharge forecast using machine learning techniques: a case study in the Italian Alps“, Water 2015, 7(5), 2494-2515; doi:10.3390/w7052494. 29. Polychronaki, A., Spindler, N., Schmidt, A., Stoinschek, B., Zebisch, M., Renner, K., Sonnenschein, R. & Notarnicola, C.: Using earth observation data to map habitats: A preliminary study in an Alpine region in South Tyrol, Italy. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 37 (2015), 65-71. 30. Ali, I.; Greifeneder, F.; Stamenkovic, J.; Neumann, M.; Notarnicola, C. Review of Machine Learning Approaches for Biomass and Soil Moisture Retrievals from Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sens. 2015, 7, 16398-16421.

2014

31. Pasolli, L., Notarnicola, C., Bertoldi, G., Della Chiesa S., Niedrist, G., Bruzzone, L., Tappeiner, U., Zebisch, M.: Soil moisture monitoring in mountain areas by using high resolution SAR images: results from a feasibility study. European Journal of Soil Science 10/2014; 65(6). 32. P. Rastner, T. Bolch, C. Notarnicola, F. Paul, Comparison of Pixel- and Object-Based Glacier Classification With Optical Satellite Images, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 01/2014 7(3):853-862. 33. C. Notarnicola, A Bayesian change detection approach for retrieval of soil moisture under different roughness conditions, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol.11, n.2, p. 414-418, 2014. 34. M. Mastrogiuseppe, V. Poggiali, C.Notarnicola, R. Seu, Titan dune heights retrieval by using Cassini Radar Altimeter, Icarus 02/2014; Volume 230(Third Planetary Dunes Systems):191-197. 35. Bertoldi, G., S. Della Chiesa, C. Notarnicola, L. Pasolli, G. Niedrist, and U. Tappeiner. “Estimation of soil moisture patterns in mountain grasslands by means of SAR RADARSAT2 images and hydrological modeling. J. Hydrol. (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.02.018 36. M.Mastrogiuseppe, V. Poggiali, A.Hayes, R. Lorenz, J. Lunine, G. Picardi, R. Seu, E. Flamini, G. Mitri, C.Notarnicola, P. Paillou, H.Zebker, The Bathymetry of a Titan Sea, Geophysical Research Letters 02/2014; DOI:10.1002/2013GL058618. 37. W. Wagner, J. Fröhlich, G. Wotawa, R. Stowasser, M. Staudinger, C. Hoffmannh, A. Walli, C. Federspiel, M. Aspetsberger, C. Atzberger, C. Briese, C. Notarnicola, M. Zebisch, A. Boresch, M. Enenkel, R. Kidd, A. von Beringe, S. Hasenauer, V. Naeimi, W. Mücke, Addressing grand challenges in Earth Observation Science: the Earth Observation data centre for water resources monitoring, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume II-7, 2014, ISPRS Technical Commission VII Symposium, 29 September – 2 October 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.

2013 38. Ali, I.; Schuster, C.; Zebisch, M.; Forster, M.; Kleinschmit, B.; Notarnicola, C. First results of monitoring nature conservation sites in alpine region by using very high resolution (VHR) X-band SAR data. IEEE. J. Sel. Top. Appl. Earth Obs. Vol. 6, n.5, 2265-2274, 2013. 39. Notarnicola, C.; Duguay, M.; Moelg, N.; Schellenberger, T.; Tetzlaff, A.; Monsorno, R.; Costa, A.; Steurer, C.; Zebisch, M. Snow Cover Maps from MODIS Images at 250 m Resolution, Part 1: Algorithm Description. Remote Sens. 2013, 5, 110-126. 40. Notarnicola, C.; Duguay, M.; Moelg, N.; Schellenberger, T.; Tetzlaff, A.; Monsorno, R.; Costa, A.; Steurer, C.; Zebisch, M. Snow Cover Maps from MODIS Images at 250 m Resolution, Part 2: Validation. Remote Sens. 2013, 5, 1568-1587. 41. Hayes, A. G.; Lorenz, R. D.; Donelan, M. A.; Schneider, T.; Manga, M.; Lamb, M. P.; Mitchell, J. M.; Lunine, J. I.; Schlichting, H. E.; Fischer, W. W.; Graves, S. D.; Tolman, H. L.; Aharonson, O.; Encrenaz, P. J.; Ventura, B.; Casarano, D.; Notarnicola, C.: Wind driven capillary gravity waves on Titan's lakes: Hard to detect or non-existent?, ICARUS, Volume 225, Issue 1, July 2013, Pages 403–412. 42. Paloscia S., Pettinato S., Santi E., Notarnicola C., Pasolli L., Reppucci A., Soil moisture mapping using Sentinel-1 images: Algorithm and preliminary validation, Remote Sensing of Environment, 134 (2013) 234–248. 43. G. Vaglio Laurin , F. Del Frate, L. Pasolli , C. Notarnicola , L.Guerriero & R. Valentini (2013): Discrimination of vegetation types in alpine sites with ALOS PALSAR-, RADARSAT-2-, and lidar- derived information, International Journal of Remote Sensing, DOI:10.1080/01431161.2013.810823 44. L. Carturan, R. Filippi, R. Seppi, P. Gabrielli, C. Notarnicola, L. Bertoldi, F. Paul, P. Rastner, F. Cazorzi, R. Dinale and G. Dalla Fontana, Area and volume loss of the glaciers in the Ortles-1 Cevedale group (Eastern Italian Alps): controls and 2 imbalance of the remaining glaciers, The Cryosphere, 7, 1339-1359, 2013. 45. E. Santi , S. Paloscia, S. Pettinato, C. Notarnicola, L. Pasolli, A. Pistocchi, Comparison between SAR Soil Moisture Estimates and Hydrological Model Simulations over the Scrivia Test Site, Remote Sens. 2013, 5, 4961-4976. 46. C. Notarnicola, R. Ratti, V. Maddalena, T. Schellenberger, B. Ventura, M. Zebisch, Seasonal snow cover mapping in Alpine areas through time series of COSMO-SkyMed images, IEEE GRSL, vol. 10, n.4, p. 716-720, 2013.

2012 47. C. Notarnicola, L. Caporaso, F. Di Giuseppe, M. Temimi, B. Ventura, M. Zebisch, Inferring soil moisture variability in the mediterrean Sea area using infrared and passive microwave observations, Can. J. Remote Sensing, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 46-59, 2012 48. T. Schellenberger, B. Ventura, M. Zebisch, C. Notarnicola, Wet snow cover mapping algorithm based on multitemporal COSMO-Skymed X-band SAR images, Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, vol. 5, n.3, 1045-1053, 2012. 49. L.Pasolli, C.Notarnicola, L. Bruzzone, Multi-objective Parameter Optimization in Regression methods for the Retrieval of Geo- and Bio-Physical Variables, Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, vol.5, n.5, 1495-1508, 2012. 50. D.Piacentini, F.Troiani, M.Soldati, C.Notarnicola, D.Savelli, S.Schneiderbauer, C.Strada, Statistical analysis for assessing shallow-landslide susceptibility in South Tyrol (south-eastern Alps, Italy), Geomorphology, 2012 ; 151-152 Pages: 196 – 206. 51. A. Pistocchi, C. Notarnicola, Data-driven mapping of avalanche release areas: a case study in South Tyrol, Italy, Natural Hazard, February 2013, Volume 65, Issue 3, pp 1313-1330. 52. B. Ventura, C. Notarnicola, D.Casarano, F. Posa, L. Wye, A. Hayes, Comparison of methodologies for physical parameters estimation of Titan’s Ontario Lacus, ICARUS, 221 (2012), pp. 960-969. 53. G.Thirel, C. Notarnicola, M. Kalas, M. Zebisc, T.Schellenberger, A. Tetzlaff, M. Duguay, N.Mölg, P.Burek, A. de Roo, Assessing the quality of a real-time Snow Cover Area product for hydrological applications, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 127, December 2012, Pages 271–287

2011 54. S.Kass, C. Notarnicola, M.Zebisch, Identification of orchards and vineyards with different texture-based measurements by using and object oriented classification approach, IJGI, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Vol. 25, n.6, June 2011, 931-947. 55. L. Pasolli, C.Notarnicola, L. Bruzzone, G. Bertoldi, S. Della Chiesa, V.Hell, G. Niedrist, U. Tappeiner, M. Zebisch, F. Del Frate, G. Vaglio Laurin, Estimation of soil moisture in an alpine catchment with RADARSAT2 images, Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2011, Article ID 175473, 12 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/175473. 56. L.Pasolli, C.Notarnicola, L. Bruzzone, Estimating Soil Moisture from Microwave Remotely Sensed Data with the ε-insensitive Support Vector Regression, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol.8, n.6, p. 1080-1084, 2011. 57. C.Notarnicola, D. Di Rosa, F.Posa, Cross-Comparison of MODIS and CloudSat Data as a Tool to Validate Local Cloud Cover Masks, Atmosphere 2011, 2(3), 242-255; doi:10.3390/atmos2030242. 58. L. Pasolli, C.Notarnicola, L. Bruzzone, G. Bertoldi, S. Della Chiesa, G. Niedrist, U. Tappeiner, 59. M. Zebisch, Polarimetric RADARSAT-2 imagery for soil moisture retrieval in alpine areas, Can. J. of Remote Sensing, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 535_547, 2011.

2010 and older 60. S. Wall, A. Hayes, C. Bristow, R. Lorenz, E. Stofan, J. Lunine, A. Le Gall, M. Janssen, R. Lopes, L. Wye, L. Soderblom, P. Paillou, O. Aharonson, H. Zebker, T. Farr, G. Mitri, R. Kirk, K. Mitchell, C. Notarnicola, D. Casarano, B. Ventura, Active shoreline of Ontario Lacus, Titan: A morphological study of the lake and its surroundings, Geophys. Res. Lett., VOL., 37, L05202, doi: 10.1029/2009GL041821, 2010. 61. 13. Bertoldi G., Notarnicola C., Leitinger G., Endrizzi S., Zebisch M., Della Chiesa S. and Tappeiner U., Morphological and ecohydrological controls on land surface temperature in an Alpine catchment, Ecohydrology, 3, 189-204, 2010, DOI: 10.1002/eco.129. 62. C. Notarnicola, B. Ventura, D.Casarano, F. Posa , Cassini Science Radar team, “Cassini Radar Data: Estimation of Titan’s lake features by means of a Bayesian inversion algorithm”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47, n.5, 2009. 63. C. Notarnicola, A. Mondini, “Use of historical orthophotos and digital elevation model to link watershed land use changes and storm flow response in a karst environment”, J. Appl. Remote Sens. Vol. 3, 033574, doi: 10.1117/1.3284717 (Dec. 18, 2009). 64. C. Notarnicola, “Group Inversion Approach for detection of soil moisture temporal-invariant locations”, Remote Sen., 2009, 1, pp. 1338-1352, doi:10.3390. 65. C. Notarnicola, M. Angiulli, F. Posa, “Soil Moisture Retrieval from Remotely Sensed Data: Neural Network Approach versus Bayesian Method” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.46, no.2, February 2008, p.547-557. 66. C. Notarnicola, F.Posa, “Inferring vegetation water content from C and L band images”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.45, no.10, October 2007, p.3165-3171. 67. C. Notarnicola, M. Angiulli, F. Posa, “Use of Radar and Optical Remotely Sensed Data for Soil Moisture Retrieval on Vegetated Areas”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.44, no.4, April 2006, p.925-935 . 68. G. Cappelluti, A. Morea, C. Notarnicola, F. Posa, “Automatic detection of local cloud systems from MODIS data”, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, vol. 45, no.8, p. 1056-1072, August 2006. 69. C. Notarnicola, F. Posa “Bayesian Algorithm for the Estimation of the Dielectric Constant from Active and Passive Remotely Sensed Data”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol.1, no. 3, p. 179- 203, July 2004. 70. C. Notarnicola, A.C. D’Alessio, D. Casarano, F.Posa, V. Sabatelli, “Use of a C-band Ground-Based Scatterometer to Monitor Surface Roughness and Soil Moisture Changes” Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications, Volume 4, No. 2, April 2003, p.187-206. 71. F. Mattia, T. Le Toan, G. Picard, F.Posa, A.C. D’Alessio, C. Notarnicola, A.M. Gatti, M. Rinaldi, G. Satalino, G. Pasquariello, “Multitemporal C-band Radar Measurements on Wheat Field”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.41, no.7, July 2003. 72. D. Casarano , G. De Carolis, F.Mattia, C. Notarnicola, F. Posa, A. Refice , V.D. Schena, R. Sergi, P.Smacchia"SIR-C/X-SAR Data Calibration and Ground Truth Campaign over the Nasa-CB1 Test site" "Il Nuovo Cimento", Jan-Feb 2001, vol. 24 C, n.1, p. 11-23.

Chapters in Books 73. C. Notarnicola, “Retrieval of Bio-geophysical Parameters from Remotely Sensing Data by Using Bayesian Methodology” chapter XI of the book Bayesian Network Technologies: Applications and Graphical Models, IDEA Group Inc, p.222-252, 2007, ISBN 978-159904141-4. 74. C.Notarnicola, Ensemble of retrieval algorithms and electromagnetic models for soil and vegetation water content estimation from SAR images, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, ISBN 978-953-307-003-2, In- Tech, Settembre 2009. 75. C. Notarnicola, Mappe, carte ed analisi satellitari, in Ambienti, Flora e Fauna delle Murge di Sud-Est, ADDA Editore, Bari, 2010, a cura di Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, ISBN: 9788880829263 76. C.Notarnicola, E. K. Lewinska, M. Temimi, M.Zebisch, Application of the Apparent Thermal Inertia Concept for Soil Moisture Estimation in Agricultural Areas, in C. Kuenzer and S. Dech (eds.), Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing: Sensors, Methods, Applications, Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing 17, © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013, p.331-346. 77. M. Temimi, C. R. Hain, X. Zhan, R. Rabin,M. C. Anderson, C. Notarnicola, J. Stepinski, and A. Bonhomme, On the Synergistic Use of Microwave and Infrared Satellite Observations to Monitor Soil Moisture and Flooding, in Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content, Taylor & Francis Eds. 2014. 78. Claudia Notarnicola and Romina Solorza (2014). Integration of Remotely Sensed Images and Electromagnetic Models into a Bayesian Approach for Soil Moisture Content Retrieval: Methodology and Effect of Prior Information, Dynamic Programming and Bayesian Inference, Concepts and Applications, Dr. Mohammad Saber Fallah Nezhad (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-1364-5, InTech, DOI: 10.5772/57562. Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/dynamic-programming-and-bayesian-inference- concepts-and-applications/integration-of-remotely-sensed-images-and-electromagnetic-models-into-a- bayesian-approach-for-soil-m 79. M. Umar, S. Munir, I. Ali, S. Qureshi, C.Notarnicola, S. Rahman, Q. Weng, Soil Moisture Using Optical Remote Sensing and Ground Measurements: A Case Study from Pakistan, Chapter 13 in book: Remote Sensing for Sustainability, Publisher: CRC Press Taylor&Francis, Editors: Qihao Weng, pp.243-266, ISBN 9781498700719.