Research Manager

email: angelo.basile@cnr.it

tel. +39 081.0624.(int 564)

                         
Degree in Agricultural Sciences

Qualification to teach in the Competitive Sector 07/C1 Agricultural, Forest and Biosystems Engineering - I Fascia

Main research interests:

• Soil water motion processes; Physics-based simulation models of water and solute motion in the soil-plant-atmosphere system; Decision support systems; Scale processes; Study of volcanic soils.
• Measurement of hydraulic properties: laboratory and field measurement techniques and their parameterisation;
• Sensing and measurement of soil variables (water content, potential, etc.) through point systems (e.g. TDR) and geospatial (e.g. geophysical, airborne and ground-based methods);
• Microscale relationships between porosity determined by image analysis and hydraulic properties of soils;
• scaling-up procedures of soil properties and variables measured at laboratory, field and spatial scales;
• Modelling transport processes, water stress and plant growth in the soil-plant-atmosphere system;
• Study and modelling of solute transport mechanisms, pollutants and in particular nitrates of agricultural origin;
• study of soil heterogeneity and spatial variability (e.g. geostatistics, neural networks);
• zoning procedures, mapping and relationships between product quality and the physical environment;
• effects of climate change on the agro-environment through the integrated use of simulation models at the local scale and statistical downscaling procedures of weather data;
• web application of Decision Support Systems (DSS). Integration of spatialisation techniques at farm (e.g. precision agriculture) and spatial scales with physically-based modelling for multifunctional agri-environment management.

Laboratory/field activities:

Laboratory: Measurement of soil hydraulic properties and solute transport parameters; inflow-outflow tests; soil particle size distribution;

Camp: Monitoring of soil potential, water content and solute concentration and weather variables in experimental sites cultivated with vines, wheat, maize, etc. Geophysical measurements for the geospatial study of soil properties.  

People: https://Angelo Basile - ISAFOM

Scopus Author ID: 57192935259

WoS Researcher ID: B-9641-2012 

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6238-0278 

Research Gate: Angelo_Basil 

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