Sara Modanesi

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 687 citations indexed

About

Sara Modanesi is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Modanesi has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 687 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Environmental Engineering, 16 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Sara Modanesi's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (18 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers). Sara Modanesi is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (18 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers). Sara Modanesi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Austria and Belgium. Sara Modanesi's co-authors include Christian Massari, Luca Brocca, Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, Wolfgang Wagner, Luca Ciabatta, Christoph Paulik, Vahid Freeman, Stefan Schaufler, Senmao Cao and Stefania Camici and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Resources Research and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Sara Modanesi

21 papers receiving 674 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Toward Global Soil Moisture Monitoring With Sentinel-1: Harnessing Assets and Overcoming Obstacles

2018 303 citations Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, Vahid Freeman et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Modanesi Italy	12	493	375	223	190	92	22	687
Fangni Lei United States	17	591 1.2×	477 1.3×	159 0.7×	265 1.4×	38 0.4×	32	827
Vahid Freeman Austria	7	345 0.7×	279 0.7×	93 0.4×	142 0.7×	49 0.5×	10	500
Liangliang Bai China	9	493 1.0×	405 1.1×	113 0.5×	213 1.1×	41 0.4×	11	709
Abdelhakim Amazirh Morocco	15	349 0.7×	206 0.5×	123 0.6×	371 2.0×	136 1.5×	38	726
Chandra Holifield Collins United States	14	476 1.0×	387 1.0×	92 0.4×	134 0.7×	78 0.8×	24	660
Chandra D. Holifield Collins United States	14	315 0.6×	227 0.6×	136 0.6×	181 1.0×	166 1.8×	22	619
Senmao Cao Austria	11	387 0.8×	385 1.0×	122 0.5×	244 1.3×	40 0.4×	20	717
Gareth Ireland United Kingdom	12	569 1.2×	389 1.0×	87 0.4×	313 1.6×	55 0.6×	16	795
Gurjeet Singh India	13	280 0.6×	156 0.4×	138 0.6×	134 0.7×	130 1.4×	30	497
Vincent Rivalland France	15	349 0.7×	213 0.6×	178 0.8×	496 2.6×	134 1.5×	36	767

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20 of 20 papers shown

Modanesi, Sara, et al.. (2026). Supplementary material to "Long-term irrigation water use datasets from multiple Earth Observation-based methods in major irrigated regions".

Bechtold, Michel, et al.. (2024). Irrigation Quantification Through Backscatter Data Assimilation With a Buddy Check Approach. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(3). 2 indexed citations

Zappa, Luca, Jacopo Dari, Sara Modanesi, et al.. (2024). Benefits and pitfalls of irrigation timing and water amounts derived from satellite soil moisture. Agricultural Water Management. 295. 108773–108773. 12 indexed citations

Dari, Jacopo, Sara Modanesi, Christian Massari, et al.. (2024). An inter-comparison of approaches and frameworks to quantify irrigation from satellite data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(3). 441–457. 9 indexed citations

Lannoy, Gabriëlle De, Michel Bechtold, Sara Modanesi, et al.. (2024). Contributions of Irrigation Modeling, Soil Moisture and Snow Data Assimilation to High‐Resolution Water Budget Estimates Over the Po Basin: Progress Towards Digital Replicas. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(10). 3 indexed citations

Girotto, Manuela, Giuseppe Formetta, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, et al.. (2023). Identifying snowfall elevation patterns by assimilating satellite-based snow depth retrievals. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167312–167312. 11 indexed citations

Dari, Jacopo, Luca Brocca, Sara Modanesi, et al.. (2023). Regional data sets of high-resolution (1 and 6 km) irrigation estimates from space. Earth system science data. 15(4). 1555–1575. 43 indexed citations

Page, Michel Le, Mehrez Zribi, Aaron Boone, et al.. (2023). Irrigation Timing Retrieval at the Plot Scale Using Surface Soil Moisture Derived from Sentinel Time Series in Europe. Remote Sensing. 15(5). 1449–1449. 7 indexed citations

Massari, Christian, Victor Pellet, Yves Tramblay, et al.. (2023). On the relation between antecedent basin conditions and runoff coefficient for European floods. Journal of Hydrology. 625. 130012–130012. 17 indexed citations

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Massari, Christian, Giuseppe Formetta, Silvia Barbetta, et al.. (2023). On understanding mountainous carbonate basins of the Mediterranean using parsimonious modeling solutions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(24). 4485–4503. 5 indexed citations

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Bechtold, Michel, Sara Modanesi, Hans Lievens, et al.. (2023). Assimilation of Sentinel-1 Backscatter into a Land Surface Model with River Routing and Its Impact on Streamflow Simulations in Two Belgian Catchments. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 24(12). 2389–2408. 8 indexed citations

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Modanesi, Sara, Christian Massari, Michel Bechtold, et al.. (2022). Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(18). 4685–4706. 20 indexed citations

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Page, Michel Le, Lionel Jarlan, Nicolas Baghdadi, et al.. (2022). Irrigation Mapping on Two Contrasted Climatic Contexts Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data. Water. 14(5). 804–804. 19 indexed citations

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Biondi, Daniela, Wade T. Crow, Stefania Camici, et al.. (2021). Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture Products for River Flow Prediction: An Extensive Experiment in Over 700 Catchments Throughout Europe. Water Resources Research. 57(6). 30 indexed citations

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Modanesi, Sara, Christian Massari, Alexander Gruber, et al.. (2021). Optimizing a backscatter forward operator using Sentinel-1 data over irrigated land. 3 indexed citations

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Modanesi, Sara, Christian Massari, Alexander Gruber, et al.. (2021). Optimizing a backscatter forward operator using Sentinel-1 data over irrigated land. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(12). 6283–6307. 13 indexed citations

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Modanesi, Sara, Christian Massari, Stefania Camici, Luca Brocca, & Giriraj Amarnath. (2020). Do Satellite Surface Soil Moisture Observations Better Retain Information About Crop‐Yield Variability in Drought Conditions?. Water Resources Research. 56(2). 23 indexed citations

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Dariane, Alireza B., Sara Modanesi, Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, et al.. (2019). Assimilation of Sentinel 1 and SMAP – based satellite soil moisture retrievals into SWAT hydrological model: the impact of satellite revisit time and product spatial resolution on flood simulations in small basins. Journal of Hydrology. 581. 124367–124367. 68 indexed citations

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Bauer-Marschallinger, Bernhard, Vahid Freeman, Senmao Cao, et al.. (2018). Toward Global Soil Moisture Monitoring With Sentinel-1: Harnessing Assets and Overcoming Obstacles. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(1). 520–539. 303 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bauer-Marschallinger, Bernhard, Christoph Paulik, Thomas Mistelbauer, et al.. (2018). Soil Moisture from Fusion of Scatterometer and SAR: Closing the Scale Gap with Temporal Filtering. Remote Sensing. 10(7). 1030–1030. 85 indexed citations

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