Geomatica forestale - Forestry and Wood

Forest Geomatics - Arezzo

Dr  Ugo Chiavetta and Nicola Puletti

The laboratory of Forest Geomatics (ForGeo.lab), based on geo-informatics, has been established to investigate the suitable science to manage forests and other natural resources. Our research activities in the ForGeo.lab are diverse and focus on a large scale of issues ranging from landscape to single-tree. ForGeo.lab aims at providing innovative solutions to support silviculture, forest planning and management, and ecosystem monitoring. 

Research activities:  

• Use and development of Geographical Information Systems to support silviculture and forest monitoring 
• Forest mapping and forest structure analysis at landscape level 
• Analysis of remotely-sensed optical imagery (airborne, from satellite, from UAV) and active data (airborne, UAV) to model/map/predict forest attributes 
• Detecting stand forest structure through proximal and remote sensing techniques 
• Use of terrestrial image analysis and/or remote sensed data to measure/model/predict tree features 
• Analysis of tree profile for wood assortment assessment and estimation 

 

Lab equipment: 

• Trimble Faro 360 Terrestrial Laser Scanner. 
• TerrestrialLaser Scanner ZEB1 GeoSLAM. 
• 1 senseFly eBee fixed-wing drone equipped with optical camera. 
• 1 multicopter equipped with laser scanner (prototype realized in cooperation with D.R.E.Am Italia). 
• 4 GNSS receivers: 1 Trimble ProXT, 1 Trimble Pro 6H, 3 Trimble Juno SB. 
• Digital Cameras for estimation of forest attributes. 
• Tablet and palmtop for field forest digital surveys. 
• 6 Desktop Workstations e 1 mobile workstation. 

For more information contact: 

ugo.chiavetta@crea.gov.it

nicola.puletti@crea.gov.it