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Publications

2026

Papadopoulou, I., Karampini, C., Mingou, L., Arroyo-Cerezo, A., Cambronero-Ruiz, L., Moreno-Cuenca, L., & Kalogeras, A. (2026). Sustainable and Precision Viticulture: Systematic Insights from Soil and Remote Sensing Studies. Agriculture, 16(13), 1370. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture16131370

Rodrigo-Comino, J., Xouris, C., Caballero-Calvo, A., Seeger, M., Kavian, A., & Kalogeras, A. (2026). From consumer to RTK-enabled UAVs: A comparative assessment of vineyard mapping accuracy and spectral indices. Precision Agriculture, 27(4), 90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-026-10363-4

Rodrigo-Comino, J., Domínguez-Rull, J., Xouris, C., Kalogeras, A., Cerdà, A., & Herrera, F. (2026). Hybrid interpretable and explainable deep learning workflow for vineyard wildfire damage mapping from UAV-RGB imagery: PCA–k-means calibrated with U-Net segmentation (Patras, August 2025). The Photogrammetric Record, 41(194), e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/phor.70044

González-Vivar, J., Demir, S., & Rodrigo-Comino, J. (2026). Improving yield prediction and decision-making in Mediterranean vineyards using machine learning on multisource remote sensing and soil data. Air, Soil and Water Research, 19, 11786221261432379. https://doi.org/10.1177/117862212614323

Rodrigo-Comino, J., González-Moreno, M. T., Moreno-Cuenca, L., Cambronero-Ruiz, L., & Senciales-González, J. M. (2026). Assessing relative gully morphometric change after extreme rainfall events: A UAV-based GIS framework applied to the 2024 DANA in southern Spain. Transactions in GIS, 30(1), e70214. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.70214

Rodrigo-Comino, J., González-Moreno, M. T., Moreno-Cuenca, L., Cambronero-Ruiz, L., Irigaray, C., Serrano Bernardo, F., Durán Zuazo, V. H., Fernández-Gálvez, J., Caballero-Calvo, A., & Rodríguez-Galiano, V. (2026). Terrain controls on NDVI spatial variability under post-harvest conditions: A UAV-based geomorphometric and machine learning approach in Mediterranean croplands. Revue Internationale de Géomatique. https://doi.org/10.32604/rig.2026.081803

Rodrigo-Comino, J., Cambronero-Ruiz, L., Moreno-Cuenca, L., González-Vivar, J., González-Moreno, M. T., & Rodríguez-Galiano, V. (2025). Integrating UAV-LiDAR and Field Experiments to Survey Soil Erosion Drivers in Citrus Orchards Using an Exploratory Machine Learning Approach. Water, 17(24), 3541. https://doi.org/10.3390/w17243541

Rodrigo-Comino, J., Al-Shammary, A. A. G., Durán-Zuazo, V. H., Serrano-Bernardo, F., Caballero-Calvo, A., & Rodríguez-Galiano, V. (2026). The limits of RGB-based vegetation indexes under canopy degradation: Insights from UAV monitoring of harvested cereal fields. Drones and Autonomous Vehicles, 3(1), 10021. https://doi.org/10.70322/dav.2025.10021

2025

González-Vivar, J., Sobczyk, R., Romero-Frías, E., & Rodrigo-Comino, J. (2025). Adoption and Perception of Precision Technologies in Agriculture: Systematic Review and Case Study in the PDO Wines of Granada, Southern Spain. Agriculture, 15(23), 2468. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15232468

Cambonero-Ruiz, L., Yu, Yang, Rodrigo-Comino, J. (2025). Scaling up analysis of human impacts on hydrological connectivity in Mediterranean viticultural landscapes: From hillslope to a watershed perspective. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology. 100700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2025.100700

González-Moreno, M. T., & Rodrigo-Comino, J. (2025). Geostatistical Vegetation Filtering for Rapid UAV-RGB Mapping of Sudden Geomorphological Events in the Mediterranean Areas. Drones, 9(6), 441. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones9060441

Carvajal-Pachón, José, Cambronero-Ruiz, Laura, Serrano-Bernardo, Francisco, Zuazo, Víctor Hugo Durán, Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús. 2025. Introducing earhtworms to generate sustainable microenvironments able to modify soil hydrological properties on vineyards. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics. Vol. 73 (2025): 2.https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2025-0014

Arredondo, A.M., Mirzaei, M., Wu, GL. et al. Evaluating soil respiration and water infiltration in esparto grasslands: the effects of hillslope position and soil management in arid, human-affected Mediterranean environments. Discov Sustain 6, 421 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-025-01282-x

2024

  • Klamerus-Iwan, A., Cambronero Ruiz, L., Muñoz Gómez, C., Warczyk, C., Dev Singh, P., Owais Khan, M., Caballero-Calvo, A. 2024. Assessing water storage capacity and wettability of plants and woody fragments in post-fire environments: A case study in Los Guájares, SE Spain. Trees, Forests and People, 17, 100607, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100607.
  • Rodrigo-Comino, J. Soil resilience assessment using soil profile descriptions and Analytic Hierarchy Process in Mediterranean mountains considering diverse fire occurrences. J. Mt. Sci. 21, 2517–2532 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-024-8803-9
  • Ortega, J.P., Cambronero, L., Alcarria Salas, M. Keesstra, S.D., Durán-Zuazo, V.H., Rodrigo-Comino, J. 2024. Conducting an in situ evaluation of erodibility in a Mediterranean semi-arid and conventional vineyard in Granada province (Southern Spain) through rainfall simulation experiments. Euro-Mediterr J Environ Integr9, 797–808 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41207-024-00485-4
  • Rodrigo-Comino, J. Abellán, A., Caballero-Calvo, A., Carmona, M.D., Fernández-Ondoño, E., Durán-Zuazo, V.H., Keesstra, S.D. 2024. Combining Improved Stock Unearthing Method and ancillary measurements to assess catch crops impacts on soil mobilisation in vineyards. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Supplementary DOI: 10.1127/zfg/2024/0811
  • Muñoz-Gómez, C., & Rodrigo-Comino, J. (2024). Designing a Multitemporal Analysis of Land Use Changes and Vegetation Indices to Assess the Impacts of Severe Forest Fires Before Applying Control Measures. Forests, 15(11), 2036. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15112036
  • Rodrigo-Comino, J., & Seeger, M. (2024). Exploring the unintended contribution of soil erosion research to microplastic contamination. Results in Earth Sciences, 2, 100043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rines.2024.100043
  • Rodrigo-Comino, J., Cambronero, L., Gonzalez-Moreno, M. T., Keesstra, S. D., Gonzalez Vivar, J., Cerda, A., Senciales, J. M. (2025). Chapter 2 – Sustainable development and integrated soil management: tools and keys for surveying the landscape evolution and degradation processes in Mediterranean mountainous regions. In L. Salvati (Ed.), Environmental Sustainability and Global Change (pp. 19-31). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-31596-1.00002-7

Ongoing PhD theses

  • Jesús González-Vivar (2022-2026): «The use of remote sensing and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) as key tools for designing efficient and sustainable management plans in agricultural ecosystems». Supervisors: Jesús Rodrigo-Comino and Yolanda Jiménez-Olivencia.
  • Laura Cambronero-Ruiz (2024-2028): «Spatiotemporal analysis of ecogeomorphological processes in viticultural agrosystems: an integrated approach involving fieldwork, laboratory experimentation, and Big Data modeling via GIS programming». Supervisor: Jesús Rodrigo-Comino
  • María Teresa Gonzalez-Moreno (2024.2028): «Assessment and Modeling of Land Use Change Dynamics in the Province of Granada: Spatiotemporal Analysis of Big Data with Machine Learning and GIS Tools». Supervisors: Jesús Rodrigo-Comino and Esteban Romero Frías.
  • Lucía Moreno-Cuenca (2024-2028): «Analysis of Climate Variability and its Effects on the Soils of the Province of Granada: Modeling Pedoclimatic Gradients and Climate Scenarios with Big Data». Supervisors: Jesús Rodrigo-Comino.
  • Ana López Ávila (2025-2028): «Gender perspectives in agriculture: science, management, and territorial governance». Supervisors: Jesús Rodrigo-Comino and Esteban Romero Frías.
  • Jacinto Domínguez Rull (2025-2028): “Advanced post-natural disaster modeling (floods and wildfires) using deep learning through drone imagery.”

Master theses

  • Cambronero, L. 2024. Analysis of eco-geomorphological processes using Geographic Information Technologies and field measurements in a Granada vineyard: temporal and spatial evaluation.

Bachelor theses

  • Parra, J. 2023 (Bachelor of Environmental Sciences). Evaluation of erodibility in a Granada vineyard through simulated rainfall and mini-disk infiltration experiments.
  • Mogroviejo, P. 2024 (Bachelor of Biology). Monitoring key soil properties for the sustainable management of the Granada vineyard.
  • Arredondo-Tudela, A. 2024 (Bachelor of Geography). Assessing soil degradation through the analysis of key soil components in abandoned esparto grasslands of the Mediterranean: A case study of Benamaurel (Granada).
  • Carvajal, J. 2024 (Bachelor of Geography). Introduction of earthworms: A nature-based solution to improve soil infiltration and properties in vineyards.

Others

  • Departmental fellowship: José Luis Rodríguez (2022-2023); Laura Cambronero Ruiz (2023-2024), María Salas Alcarria (2023-2024); José Carvajal Pachón (2024-2025).
  • Practicum: José Luis Rodríguez (2021-2022); Laura Cambronero Ruiz (2022-2023); María Alcarria Salas (2022-2023); Irene Chacón (2023-2024); Miranda Salazar (2023-2024). José Carvajal (2024-2025); Alicia Arredondo (2024-2025); Alejandro José Florido (2025).
  • International official practicum: Casandra Gómez (UNAM, 2023); Stefania Choulaki (Crete University, Greece, 2024); Valerie Balgne (ENTPE Lyon, 2024); Jack Cuneo (Clemson University, USA, 2025); Thodoris Chytis (Crete University, Greece, 2025).
  • Visiting Scholars: Dimitris Papadimitriou (Agricultural University of Athens, Greece); Manuel Seeger (Universität Trier, Germany, 2023); Anna Klamerus-Iwan (University of Warsaw, Poland, 2023); Saskia D. Keesstra (University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2022-2024); Yıldız Bahçeci Öztürk (University of Duce, Turkey, 2023); Laszlo Bertalan (University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2023).