Satellite-based investigation of the spring 2025 Boccassuolo Landslide, Northern Apennines (Italy)

Abstract This study investigates the evolution of the Boccassuolo landslide using remote sensing techniques applied to PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. The landslide occurred in late March 2025 within the municipality of Palagano (Modena Province, northern Italy), approximately 1.5 km south of the hamlet of Boccassuolo. The event began as a rotational landslide and evolved rapidly into an earth flow; subsequently, the earth flow led to the development of an earth slide involving the