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Role
Adjunct Professor
Program
M.A. Cultural Heritage: Sustainability & Community
Education
PhD in Ecosystem Biology (ongoing), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (2025鈥�2028)
Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in GIScience and UAV, University of Padua, Italy (2021鈥�2022)
MSc in Environment and Forest Conservation and Restoration, University of Tuscia, Italy (2016鈥�2018)
BSc in Forest and Natural Sciences, University of Tuscia, Italy (2013鈥�2016)

Biography

Lorenzo Crecco is a researcher at the Italian Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment. His work focuses on geospatial data science and open-source software development, with particular emphasis on听leveraging听big geospatial data and cloud computing to investigate environmental change. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Ecosystem Biology at Sapienza University of Rome, where his research explores vegetation phenology sensitivity to photoperiod and the impacts of artificial light at night (ALAN). His work integrates satellite-based remote sensing, process-based modelling, and multivariate statistical approaches across natural and urban ecosystems.听

Affiliations

  • Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA)
  • Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), Italy听

Selected publications

  • Crecco, L.,听Bajocco, S., 2026.听prismatools: An open-source Python package for accessing and听analyzing听PRISMA hyperspectral data.听SoftwareX听34, 102547.听听
  • Crecco, L., Bajocco, S.,听Bregaglio, S., 2025.听CrYP: An open-source Google earth engine tool for spatially explicit crop yield predictions. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 237, 110696.听听
  • Bajocco, S., Ferrara, C., Savian, F., Ginaldi, F., Puletti, N., Crecco, L.,听Bregaglio, S.,听Chianucci, F., 2024.听LAIr: an R package to estimate LAI from Normalized Difference Vegetation Index.听SoftwareX听27, 101776.听听

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