Raffaele Albano

University of Basilicata | UniBas · School of Engineering (SI-UniBas)

The quality and level of groundwater tables have rapidly declined because of intensive pumping in Punjab (Pakistan). For sustainable groundwater supplies, there is a need for better management practices. So, the identification of potential groundwater recharge zones is crucial for developing effective management systems. The current research is bas...

Today, hydrological and hydraulic modelling are essential tools for flood risk management, although these models are still affected by elements of uncertainty that needs to be reduced by optimizing their results. The present research aims to implement an operational mechanism on the Basento river basin in Southern Italy based on the cascading use o...

In addition to technical issues related to the instruments used, differences between soil moisture (SM) measured using ground-based methods and microwave remote sensing (RS) can be related to the main features of the study areas, which are intricately connected to hydraulic–hydrological conditions and soil properties. When long-term analysis is per...

Among the data made available by the European Copernicus Sentinel missions, those acquired by sensors aboard Sentinels 1 and 2 satellites have already proven to be suitable for detecting and monitoring floods, with different capabilities depending on the characteristics of the instrument used. C-band SAR aboard Sentinel 1A and 1B can provide all-da...

Satellite data have been widely utilized for flood detection and mapping tasks, and in recent years, there has been a growing interest in using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data due to the increased availability of recent missions with enhanced temporal resolution. This capability, when combined with the inherent advantages of SAR technology over...

La pianificazione urbana sostenibile costituisce un ambizioso e complesso processo di sviluppo delle aree urbane che mira a preservare o migliorare il rapporto tra le esigenze di sviluppo urbanistico, l'uso del suolo, l'efficienza delle infrastrutture e l'equilibrio complessivo dei luoghi, al fine di garantire sempre migliori condizioni di vita ai...

Several satellite microwave-based soil moisture (SM) products have become available in recent years, making possible to produce different datasets at continental and/or a global scale. Numerous variables, including geographic heterogeneity, weather and climate, and land cover, have an impact on these products' accuracy. In this study, we account fo...

Understanding the interactions between human and environmental systems is key to sustainable environmental management. Dynamically Coupled Socioeconomic system dynamics models integrated with physically-based Environmental Models (DCSEMs) are promising tools to appropriately capture the non-linear relationships between complex socioeconomic and bio...

Citation: Salahudin, H.; Shoaib, M.; Albano, R.; Inam Baig, M.A.; Hammad, M.; Raza, A.; Akhtar, A.; Ali, M.U. Using Ensembles of Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Reference Evapotranspiration (ET 0) Using Limited Meteorological Data. Hydrology 2023, 10, 169. Abstract: To maximize crop production, reference evapotranspiration (ET 0) measurement...

The paper analyzes the urban context of Matera city, adopting an approach based on the concept of watershed, interpreted in its dynamic meaning. This approach exceeds the classical urban planning analysis by focusing on the interaction between the morphological characteristics of the territory, the land uses and their human-made changes and the con...

The science of hydrological modeling has continuously evolved under the influence of rapid advancements in software and hardware technologies. Starting from simple rational formulae for estimating peak discharge and developing into sophisticated univariate predictive models, accurate conversion of rainfall into runoff and the assessment of inherent...

Urban flood risk mitigation requires fine-scale near-real-time precipitation observations that are challenging to obtain from traditional monitoring networks. Novel data and computational techniques offer a valuable potential source of information. This study explores an unprecedented, device-independent, artificial intelligence-based system for op...

Automatic building extraction from high-resolution remotely sensed data is a major area of interest for an extensive range of fields (e.g., urban planning, environmental risk management) but challenging due to urban morphology complexity. Among the different methods proposed, the approaches based on supervised machine learning (ML) achieve the best...

Near real-time rainfall monitoring at local scale is essential for urban flood risk mitigation. Previous research on precipitation visual effects supports the idea of vision-based rain sensors, but tends to be device-specific. We aimed to use different available photographing devices to develop a dense network of low-cost sensors. Using Transfer Le...

Floods are considered major natural disasters throughout Europe, furthermore climate change may increase their frequency and magnitude. The vulnerability of urban structures demonstrates the urgency of mitigation interventions to improve the risk knowledge, dissemination and communication, response capability and monitoring and warning service. For...

Large-scale flood risk assessment is essential in supporting national and global policies, emergency operations and land-use management. The present study proposes a cost-efficient method for the large-scale mapping of direct economic flood damage in data-scarce environments. The proposed framework consists of three main stages: (i) deriving a wate...

SPHERA v.9.0.0 (RSE SpA) is a FOSS CFD-SPH research code validated on the following application fields: floods with transport of solid bodies and bed-load transport; fast landslides and their interactions with water reservoirs; sediment removal from water bodies; fuel sloshing tanks; hydrodynamic lubrication for energy efficiency actions in the ind...

To simulate the dynamics of two-dimensional dam-break flow on a dry horizontal bed, we use a smoothed particle hydrodynamics model implementing two advanced boundary treatment techniques: (i) a semi-analytical approach, based on the computation of volume integrals within the truncated portions of the kernel supports at boundaries and (ii) an extens...

Dynamically Coupled Socioeconomic system dynamics models integrated with physically-based Environmental Models (DCSEM) appropriately capture nonlinear relationships between complex environmental and socioeconomic systems and are promising tools for participatory environmental management involving the integration of various viewpoints, disciplines a...

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques are increasingly used to obtain 3D representations of buildings due to the broad range of applications for 3D city models related to sustainability, efficiency and resilience (i.e., energy demand estimation, estimation of the propagation of noise in an urban environment, routing and accessibility, fl...

Participatory methods to support successful policy decisions regarding the complex and dynamic interactions of social, ecological, and physical processes involved in flooding must be simple, easy-to-use, and cost-efficient. Accordingly, a stepwise methodological framework based on causal loop diagrams (CLDs) was developed to address the challenge o...

This paper collects some recent smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) applications in the field of natural hazards connected to rapidly varied flows of both water and dense granular mixtures including sediment erosion and bed load transport. The paper gathers together and outlines the basic aspects of some relevant works dealing with flooding on com...

Mapping the delineation of areas that are flooded due to water control infrastructure failure is a critical issue. Practical difficulties often present challenges to the accurate and effective analysis of dam-break hazard areas. Such studies are expensive, lengthy, and require large volumes of incoming data and refined technical skills. The creatio...

In the last decade, real-time access to data and the use of high-resolution spatial information have provided scientists and engineers with valuable information to help them understand risk. At the same time, there has been a rapid growth of novel and cutting-edge information and communication technologies for the collection, analysis and dissemina...

The considerable increase in flood damages in Europe in recent decades has shifted attention from flood protection to flood risk management. Assessments of expected damage provide critical information for flood risk management efforts. The evaluation of potential damages under different flood scenarios through quantification of their ability to pro...

KEY POINTS - In data-poor environments useful information about flood hazard exposure can be obtained using geomorphic methods. - An automated DEM-based procedure, named Geomorphic Flood Areas tool, has been implemented in the QGIS environment. - The GFA tool enables a fast and cost-effective flood mapping by performing a linear binary classific...

The GFA tool executable code and documentation can be downloaded from the QGIS plugin repository and/or the website: https://github.com/HydroLAB-UNIBAS/GFA-Geomorphic-Flood-Area.

The increasing number of floods and the severity of their consequences, which is caused by phenomena, such as climate change and uncontrolled urbanization, create a growing need to develop operational procedures and tools for accurate and timely flood mapping and management. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), with its day, night, and cloud-penetrating...

Delineation of flood hazard and flood risk areas is a critical issue, but practical difficulties regularly make complete achievement of the task a challenge. In data-scarce environments (e.g. ungauged basins, large-scale analyses), useful information about flood hazard exposure can be obtained using geomorphic methods. In order to advance this fiel...

The European ‘Floods Directive’ 2007/60/EC focuses on the development of flood risk maps and management plans on the basis of the most appropriate and advanced tools. This pushed a paradigm shift for moving to sustainable development through processes of stakeholder engagement to improve the efficiency and transparency of decision processes. In thi...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901116309728 (valid unitl 02 August 2017) The EU Flood Directive 2007/60 requires the assessment and delineation of flood risk maps. The latter should provide the required knowledge for the development of flood risk management plans (FRMPs), that should deal with all features of risk management:...

Manual calibration of distributed models with many unknown parameters can result in problems of equifinality and high uncertainty. In this study, the Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) technique was used to address these issues through uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of a distributed watershed scale model (SAHYSMOD) for predi...

The paper introduces a minimalist water-driven crop model for sustainable irrigation management using an eco-hydrological approach. Such model, called MY SIRR, uses a relatively small number of parameters and attempts to balance simplicity, accuracy, and robustness. MY SIRR is a quantitative tool to assess water requirements and agricultural produc...

The importance of delineating flood hazard and risk areas at a global scale has been highlighted for many years. However, its complete achievement regularly encounters practical difficulties, above all the lack of data and implementation costs. In conditions of scarce data availability (e.g. ungauged basins, large-scale analyses), a fast and cost-e...

Flood damage assessments supply crucial information to support authorities, local entities, and the stakeholders involved in decision-making regarding flood risk management in their compliance with the Floods Directive (2007/60/EC). Specifically, the estimation of economic flood damage provides objective results and rational procedure in so that re...

Many simulation models focus on simulating a single physical process and do not constitute balanced representations of the physical, social and economic components of a system. The present study addresses this challenge by integrating a physical (P) model (SAHYSMOD) with a group (stakeholder) built system dynamics model (GBSDM) through a component...

Effective policies, leading to sustainable management solutions for land and water resources, demand a full understanding of interactions between socio-economic and physical processes. However, the complex nature of these interactions, combined with limited stakeholder engagement, hinders the incorporation of socio-economic components into physical...

We developed a tool: FloodRisk, a QGIS plugin that provides the assessment of flood consequences, in terms of loss of life and direct economic damages

Large debris, including vehicles parked along floodplains, can cause severe damage and significant loss of life during urban area flash-floods. In this study, the authors validated and applied the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) model, developed in Amicarelli et al. (2015), which reproduces in 3D the dynamics of rigid bodies driven by free su...

An analysis of global statistics shows a substantial increase in flood damage over the past few decades. Moreover, it is expected that flood risk will continue to rise due to the combined effect of increasing numbers of people and economic assets in risk-prone areas and the effects of climate change. In order to mitigate the impact of natural hazar...

This study has developed a 3D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical scheme to reproduce the transport of rigid bodies in free surface flows (e.g. floods, surface waves). It is based on the Euler–Newton equations for body dynamics, implemented through the SPH formalism. This scheme has been coupled to a Weakly Compressible (WC)-SPH model f...

As evidenced by the EU Floods Directive (2007/60/EC), flood management strategies in Europe have undergone a shift in focus in recent years. The goal of flood prevention using structural measures has been replaced by an emphasis on the management of flood risks using non-structural measures. One implication of this is that public authorities alone...

Efficient decision-making regarding flood risk reduction has become a priority for authorities and stakeholders in many European countries. Risk analysis methods and techniques are a useful tool for evaluating costs and benefits of possible interventions. Within this context, a methodology to estimate flood consequences was developed in this paper...

Currently, the urban flooding is one of the most concerning problems in hydraulic protection, both for the enormous number of people and the different elements (buildings, roads, vehicles, and so on) potentially exposed to risk, as well as the complexity of the territory at issue. At the practical level, vulnerability indicators are often predictab...

Fast-moving flows due to flash floods and/or dam-break events may often cause potential hazard to human beings and their proprieties in urban floodplains. Recently, flood risks related to solid bodies transport, such as vehicles, have become more and more common and, therefore, worth investigating. These hydraulic phenomena are complex events diffi...

Fast-moving flows due to flash floods and/or dam-break events may often cause potential hazard to human beings and their proprieties in urban floodplains. Recently, flood risks related to solid bodies transport, such as vehicles, have become more and more common and, therefore, worth investigating. These hydraulic phenomena are complex events diffi...

This paper details the technical contribution to the theme of flood risk analysis as consequence of a dam failure. According to the numerical problem proposed for the workshop, the analysis consists of the evaluation of the dam break and its consequences. The simulation includes two scenarios of dam breach: the scenario 1 that represents the case o...

This paper is intended to highlight the need to use data at high spatial resolution, such as those obtained through the use of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) techniques, to support hydraulic models for the assessment of flood hazards in urban territory. In fact, the significant structural features (houses, walls, roads, etc.) in the city are importa...

This paper aims to create a model for analyzing the systemic vulnerability of a complex urban area at landslide risk. The proposed approach of vulnerability evaluation differs from traditional methods as it provides an analysis of “Systemic Vulnerability” measuring the direct and indirect consequences of a simulated event on the territorial system....

This paper aims to create a model for analyzing the systemic vulnerability of a complex urban area at landslide risk. The proposed approach of vulnerability evaluation differs from traditional methods as it provides an analysis of “Systemic Vulnerability” measuring the direct and indirect consequences of a simulated event on the territorial system....

This chapter aims to analyze the systemic vulnerability of a complex urban area when a combined flood-landslide event occurs. The proposed approach of vulnerability evaluation differs from traditional methods as it provides an analysis of “systemic vulnerability” measuring the relationship between extreme event magnitude and the direct and indirect...

This chapter aims to analyze the systemic vulnerability of a complex urban area when a combined flood-landslide event occurs. The proposed approach of vulnerability evaluation differs from traditional methods as it provides an analysis of “systemic vulnerability” measuring the relationship between extreme event magnitude and the direct and indirect...

This paper aims to analyze the systemic vulnerability of a complex urban area when a combined flood-landslide event occurs. The proposed approach of vulnerability evaluation differs from traditional methods as it provides an analysis of "Systemic Vulnerability" measuring the relationship between extreme event magnitude and direct and indirect conse...