Publications by authors named "Vasileios Syrris"
Soil erosion can present a major threat to agriculture due to loss of soil, nutrients, and organic carbon. Therefore, soil erosion modelling is one of the steps used to plan suitable soil protection measures and detect erosion hotspots. A bibliometric analysis of this topic can reveal research patterns and soil erosion modelling characteristics that can help identify steps needed to enhance the research conducted in this field.
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- The study reviewed soil erosion prediction models from peer-reviewed literature published between 1994 and 2017, aiming to identify key processes, application regions, and gaps in research.
- A collaborative effort involving 67 soil-erosion scientists led to the creation of the 'Global Applications of Soil Erosion Modelling Tracker (GASEMT)', which compiled 3030 modeling records from 126 countries, covering all continents except Antarctica.
- The GASEMT database is open-source, designed to support future soil erosion research and the United Nations' global soil erosion assessment, allowing for community contributions and enhancements.
There is an increasing availability of geospatial data describing patterns of human settlement and population such as various global remote-sensing based built-up land layers, fine-grained census-based population estimates, and publicly available cadastral and building footprint data. This development constitutes new integrative modelling opportunities to characterize the continuum of urban, peri-urban, and rural settlements and populations. However, little research has been done regarding the agreement between such data products in measuring human presence which is measured by different proxy variables (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClimate can affect the geographic and seasonal patterns of vector-borne disease incidence such as West Nile Virus (WNV) infections. We explore the association between climatic factors and the occurrence of West Nile fever (WNF) or West Nile neuro-invasive disease (WNND) in humans in Northern Greece over the years 2010-2014. Time series over a period of 30 years (1979-2008) of climatic data of air temperature, relative humidity, soil temperature, volumetric soil water content, wind speed, and precipitation representing average climate were obtained utilising the ECMWF's (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) Re-Analysis (ERA-Interim) system allowing for a homogeneous set of data in time and space.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pilocytic astrocytoma can be challenging to diagnose.
Methods: Its clinical presentations can differ, directly related to its size and location, and are relatively unreliable. Similarly, imaging findings also vary with the location of the pilocytic astrocytoma.