The Laboratory of Forest Geomatics at the University of Florence. Earth observation, modelling and geomatics for sustainable forest management.
The research group at geoLAB "Laboratory of Forest Geomatics" at the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry of the University of Florence develop methods to increase our knowledge of forests and forest related resources.
Founded in 2000, it deals with research, training and scientific advisory of all applications of Geographic Information Systems, spatial modeling, remote sensing and geomatics supporting forestry and environmental management and planning.
Our resources include a drone fleet, different terrestrial LiDAR systems, precision GNSS, cloud computing based on multicore systems for big data manipulation and traditional forest survey instruments. geoLAB also created a spin-off private company, BlueBiloba, which sells commercial services based on the know-how created at geoLAB.
Projects
News
- geoLAB at the MoniFun consortium meeting: forest mapping, remote sensing and Federated Learning2026-11-10
- NextBON holds its kick-off meeting in Copenhagen2026-11-03
- How the erosion of natural darkness affects tree-covered urban areas worldwide2026-02-02
- FORWARDS Poster presentation at ESA Living Planet Symposium2025-06-30
- The new Italian Forest Inventory2025-06-10
- geoLAB on the Rai programme NOOS2025-02-10
Publications
- Satellite Remote Sensing for Monitoring Cork Oak Woodlands—A Comprehensive Literature Review2026-01-19
- GEDI and Sentinel data integration for quantifying agroforestry tree height and stocks2026-01-15
- Advancements in Forest Monitoring: Applications and Perspectives of Airborne Laser Scanning and Complementarity with Satellite Optical Data2025-11-24
- National Forest Inventory in Italy: new perspectives for forest monitoring2025-10-27
- Conference Posters2025-03-03
- SPOT: robotics for forest assessment2023-11-21
Director
- Gherardo ChiriciFull professor of remote sensing, forest inventory, urban ecology
