Dr. Luigi Boschetti

 
Education

PhD Geodesy and Geomatics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2005
Diploma in Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2000

Research Interests

• Global scale applications of low and medium resolution satellite data
• Remote sensing of burned areas
• Multitemporal algorithms
• Validation of low resolution thematic products

The research activity of Dr. Boschetti is mainly focused on the processing of moderate resolution optical data for burned area monitoring at global scale. He is currently part of the team in charge of the development and validation of the MODIS global burned product (http://modis-fire.umd.edu/MCD45A1.asp). He is leading the global validation of the MODIS burned area product, and he is interested in the use of the multi-annual fire datasets for the characterisation of global fire regimes and for the analysis of multi-year trends in fire activity.

Before joining the department of Geography at the University of Maryland in April 2005, Dr. Boschetti held research fellowships at the Italian national Research Council (2004-2005) and at the Institute for Environment and Sustainability of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (2002-2004), and was a visiting scientist at the Natural Resources Institute - University of Greenwich (2000-2002).

Representative Papers

Boschetti, L. and Roy, D, Strategies for the fusion of satellite fire radiative power with burned area data for fire radiative power derivation, Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, accepted August 2009.

M. Pepe, L. Boschetti, P.A. Brivio, Rampini,.A., Comparing the performance of fuzzy and crisp classifiers on remotely sensed images: a case of snow classification, International Journal of Remote Sensing, accepted February 2009.     

Roy, D.P. and Boschetti, L., 2009, Southern Africa Validation of the MODIS, L3JRC and GlobCarbon Burned Area Products, IEEE transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47(4), pp. 1032 – 1044, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009000 (pdf) .

D.P. Roy, L. Boschetti, C.O. Justice, J. Ju, The Collection 5 MODIS Burned Area Product - Global Evaluation by Comparison with the MODIS Active Fire Product, 2008, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 3690-3707 (pdf)

Boschetti, L. and Roy, D., "Defining a fire year for reporting and analysis of global fire inter-annual variability”, J. of Geophys. Res. - biogeosciences, vol. 113, G03020, doi:10.1029/2008JG000686, 2008(pdf)

Boschetti, L., Roy, D. and Justice, C., Using NASA’s World Wind Virtual Globe for Interactive Visualization of the Global MODIS Burned Area Product, 2008, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(11)3067-3072.(pdf)

Boschetti, L ., Roy, D. Barbosa, P., Boca, R. and Justice, C., A MODIS assessment of the summer 2007 extent burned in Greece, ,2008, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(8):2433-2436.(pdf)

Boschetti, M., Boschetti, L., Oliveri, S., and Casati, L., Tree species mapping with Airborne hyper-spectral MIVIS data: the Ticino Park study case, 2007, International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol 28(6), pp 1251-1261.(pdf)

Roy, D., Lewis, P., Schaaf, C., Devadiga, S., Boschetti, L., The Global impact of cloud on the production of MODIS n-day and daily rolling n-day bi-directional reflectance model based composites for terrestrial monitoring , IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Volume 3, Issue 4, Oct. 2006 Page(s):452 - 456 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LGRS.2006.875433(pdf)

Boschetti, L., Brivio, P. A., Eva, Hugh D., Gallego, J., Baraldi, A. and Grégoire, J-M., A Sampling Method for the Retrospective Validation of Global Burned Area Products, IEEE-Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 44, Issue 7, Part 1, July 2006 Page(s):1765 - 1773 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TGRS.2006.874039(pdf)

Roy, D.P., Boschetti, L., Trigg, S., Remote Sensing of Fire Severity: Assessing the performance of the Normalized Burn Ratio, 2005, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, DOI 10.1109/ LGRS.2005.858485.(pdf)

Boschetti, L., Eva, H., Brivio, P.A. and Grégoire, J.M., Lessons to be learned from the intercalibration of three satellite-derived biomass burning products, 2004, Geophysical Research Letters 31:21, L21501 10.1029/2004GL021229.(pdf)

Tansey, K., J-M. Grégoire, D. Stroppiana, A. Sousa, J.M.N. Silva, J.M.C. Pereira, L. Boschetti, M. Maggi, P.A. Brivio, R. Fraser, S. Flasse, D. Ershov, E. Binaghi, D. Graetz and P. Peduzzi, 2004, Vegetation burning in the year 2000: Global burned area estimates from SPOT VEGETATION data, J. of Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 109, D14S03, doi:10.1029/2003JD003598.(pdf)

Tansey K., J-M. Grégoire, E. Binaghi, L. Boschetti, P.A. Brivio, D. Ershov, S. Flasse, R. Fraser, D. Graetz, M. Maggi, P. Peduzzi, J.M.C. Pereira, J.M.N. Silva, A. Sousa and D. Stroppiana , 2004, A global inventory of burned areas at 1km resolution for the year 2000 derived from SPOT VEGETATION data, Climatic Change, 67(2), 1573-1580.(pdf)

Boschetti L., S. Flasse and P.A. Brivio, 2003, Analysis of the conflict between omission and commission in low spatial resolution thematic products: the Pareto Boundary, Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 91 (3-4), pp. 280-292.(pdf)

Boschetti L., P.A. Brivio, and J-M. Grégoire, 2003, The use of Meteosat and GMS imagery to detect burned areas in tropical environments, Remote Sensing of Environment, 85(1), 25 April 2003, 78-91.(pdf)