1. Introduction to digital forest management
- Electromagnetic radiation and spectral signatures
- Sensors and types of acquisition
- Satellite, airborn and drones platforms
- Characteristics and formats of geospatial data
- Software and cloud-computing platforms for the digital management of the forest resources

2. Field survey
- Acquisition and management of reference data
- GNSS receivers and mobile devices for data acquisition
- Mobile software and app for geographic database management

3. Analysis and monitoring of the forest resources
- Image classification for the forest types mapping
- Forest cover change detection
- Analysis of forest sustainable development indicators
- Forest disturbance dynamics
- Spectral indices and applications in forest health monitoring

4. Forest fire monitoring
- Introduction to forest fire radiometry
- Forest fire mapping
- Estimation of the forest fire severity

5. Modeling principles
- Parametric and non-parametric models
- Spatially explicit prediction and estimation of forest attributes

Lecture notes, slides and handouts provided by the teacher.
Chirici, G., Corona, P. (2006). Utilizzo di immagini satellitari ad alta risoluzione nel rilevamento delle risorse forestali. Aracne.
Gomarasca, Mario A. (2004). Elementi di geomatica. Associazione Italiana di Telerilevamento, Milano.
Manuale utente e altra documentazione ufficiale presente sul sito di QGIS https://www.qgis.org