Raffaele Casa

Associate Professor 

Teaching

Experimental Methods as main lecturer

Contact details 

Telephone : +39-0761-357559
fax :   +39-0761-357558
e-mail :   rcasa@unitus.it

C.V.:

• University Degree in Agricultural Sciences at Viterbo University,  110 out of 110 cum laude. April 1990. Experimental graduation dissertation.

• EC ERASMUS scholarship from January to March 1989 at the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, spent carrying out research at the Dept. Virology and attending courses of the MSc in Plant Pathology.

• From July 1990 to September 1995, employed as a full time researcher at Consorzio Agrital Ricerche, a research consortium located in Maccarese, (Rome). Work consisted of research activities in the field of agronomy and agrometeorology. 

• EU COMETT scholarship of  4 months, in March 1995, at the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management (IERM) of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. I joined the research activities of the Crop Physiology Group supervised by Dr. Graham Russell. 

• From September 1995 to present: employed as a researcher at the Department of Crop Production of the University of Viterbo (Italy). 

• EU Marie Curie Scholarship of one year (February 1999- February 2000) spent at the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Dundee (Scotland). Work on a research project entitled "Water and nitrogen stress monitoring of herbaceous crops using hyperspectral multidirectional remote sensing". Joined Professor H.G. Jones' group.

• Italian National Research Council (CNR) Short-term Mobility scholarship for one month (July 2000) spent at the University of Dundee.

• PhD at the University of Dundee awarded in 2003.

• Member of the Italian Society of Agronomy (SIA), of the Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) and of the Italian Association of Agrometeorology (AIAM) and International Society for Agricultural Meteorology (INSAM). 

Research interests

• study of the effects of environmental factors on arable crops, with paticular interest for evapotranspiration, water and radiation use efficiency, crop canopy structure and crop growth modelling;

• remote sensing for the detection of plant canopy stress in arable  crops using multiangular and multispectral approaches;

• agrometeorology and use of micrometeorological techniques.

Main publications

• Casa, R., Jones, H.G., 2005. LAI retrieval from multiangular image classification and inversion of a ray tracing model. Remote Sensing of Environment 98, 414-428

• Casa, R., Jones, H.G., 2004. Retrieval of crop canopy properties: a comparison between model inversion from hyperspectral data and image classification. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25, 1119-1130

• D'Annibale, A., Casa, R., Pieruccetti, F., Ricci, M., Marabottini, R., 2003. Lentinula edodes removes phenols from olive-mill wastewater: impact on durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) germinability. Chemosphere, 54, 887-894

• H.G. Jones, N. Archer, E. Rotenberg, R. Casa, 2003. Radiation measurement for plant ecophysiology. Journal of Experimental Botany, 54, 384, 1-11.

• R. Casa, 2003. Multiangular remote sensing of crop canopy structure for plant stress monitoring. PhD Thesis, University of Dundee, Scotland, 314 pp. [Download as PDF (6.8 Mb)]

• R. Casa, A. D'Annibale, F. Pieruccetti, S.R. Stazi, G.Giovannozzi Sermanni, B. Lo Cascio, 2003. Reduction of the phenolic components in olive-mill wastewater by an enzymatic treatment and its impact on durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) germinability. Chemosphere 50, 8, 959-966.

• Casa, R., Jones, H.G., 2003. Field-based multiangular remote sensing for plant stress monitoring. In: J. Stafford and A.Werner (Eds.): Precision Agriculture, 109-114, Wageningen Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.

• Rossini, F., Casa, R., 2003. Influence of sowing and harvest time on fibre flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) yield. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 189, 191-196

• Jones, H.G., R. Casa, 2000. The use of the VIFIS (Variable Interference Filter Imaging Spectrometer) to obtain information on vegetation properties using multiangular data. Remote Sensing Reviews, 19, 133-145.

• R. Casa, G. Russell, B. Lo Cascio, 2000. Estimation of evapotranspiration from a field of linseed in Central Italy. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 104, 289–301.

• Jones, H.G., J.M. Anderson, R. Casa, 2000. Multispectral and multiangular remote sensing of crop canopy stress. Aspects of Applied Biology, 60, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, 155-162.

• R. Casa, G. Russell, B. Lo Cascio, F. Rossini, 1999. Environmental effects on linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) yield and growth of flax at different stand densities. European Journal of Agronomy, 11, 267–278.

• Colla G., Casa R., Lo Cascio B., Saccardo F., Leoni C. e Temperini O., 1998. Responses of processing tomato to water regime and fertilization in Central Italy. Acta Horticulturae, 487, 531-535.

• Casa R., D’Antuono L.F. e Rossini F., 1997. Simulazione della produzione potenziale del lino da olio (Linum usitatissimum L.) mediante il modello SUCROS. Applicazioni preliminari. Rivista di Agronomia, XXI (3 suppl.), 624-625

• Casa R. e Lo Cascio B., 1997. Effetti delle lavorazioni del suolo sul bilancio energetico della soia (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). Rivista di Agronomia, XXXI (3), 642-650

• Rossini F. e Casa R., 1997. Confronto di differenti metodi per la stima della fitomassa di arbusti di Medicago arborea L.. Rivista di Agronomia, XXI (3 suppl.), 894-900

• Lo Cascio B. e Casa R., 1997. Soil tillage effects on soybean canopy resistance. Atti XIV I.S.T.R.O. Conference, "Agroecological and ecological aspects of soil tillage". Fragmenta Agronomica 2A, 135-138

• Lo Cascio B., Casa R. e Rossini F., 1997. Soil properties after 9 years of different tillage systems on continuous wheat in Central Italy. Atti XIV I.S.T.R.O. Conference, "Agroecological and ecological aspects of soil tillage". Fragmenta Agronomica 2A, 139-142