People

Alberto Guarnieri

Alberto Guarnieri received the degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Padova (Italy) in 1998, then in 2004 he got the PhD in Geodetic and Topographic Sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy).In 2003-2004 he was visiting researcher at the Department of Geomatics Engineering of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada. From November 2008 to November 2015 he was assistant professor, and since 2015 he is associate professor at the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry (TESAF) of the University of Padova. His research activity is mainly focused on 3D modeling supported by terrestrial laser scanning and digital photogrammetry for cultural heritage and hydrogeological risk mapping. He is also involved in the development of land-based and UAV-based low-cost mobile mapping systems. He currently teaches higher education courses on Global Navigation Systems (GNSS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at the School of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinry Medicine of the University of Padova. He has (co)authored more than 130 papers, published on international scientific journals, books and national or international conference proceedings. He is active in the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), serving from 2012 to 2016 as secretary of Inter-Commission Working Group ICWG I/Va - Mobile Scanning and Imaging Systems for 3D Surveying and Mapping.
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Last updated on 27 June 2014

Francesco Pirotti

Francesco Pirotti is associate professor at the TESAF Departmentof University of Padova. His research interests are:
- Earth Observation (EO) applications and the use of AI in data analytics in particular from Earth Observation.
- Collaborative web solutions for applying new algorithms to large remote sensing datasets.
- Lidar data, both full-waveform and discrete, for forestry applications.

He is committed to several national and international scientific committees and research groups related to geomatics, i.e. ISPRS Co-Chair in WG, EARSeL Chair of Agriculture SIG.

From 2021 to 2023 Francesco is Director of the Master in Geostatistics for human, veterinary and environmental health

He teaches remote sensing and geographic information systems in higher-education and holds several connected external courses.

He is author of 100+ articles in national and international journals; 91 of which peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Currently part of Editorial/Scientific Board for the following Journals:
- Science of Remote Sensing (Elsevier - open-access twin journal of Remote Sensing of the Environment)
- Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (Elsevier)
- Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk (Taylor and Francis)
- Applied Geomatics (Springer)
- Bollettino SIFET (Società Italiana di Fotogrammetria e Topografia)



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     Email: francesco.pirotti(at)unipd.it     Phone: +39 392 3952067

Last updated on 27 June 2014

Andrea Masiero

Andrea is Associate Professor of Geomatics at the TESAF Department of the University of Padua and member of the Interdepartmental Research Center of Geomatics (CIRGEO). He previously was Associate Professor of Geomatics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Florence (2020-2023). He received his MSc Degree in Computer Engineering and his PhD degree in Automatic Control and Operational Research from the University of Padua. He held a post-doc position at CIRGEO from 2012 to 2019. He teaches Geomatics, Topography and Cartography, Photogrammetry, Least Squares Adjustment, Positioning and Navigation courses for MSc and PhD students.
He is committed in national and international scientific committees (chair of the ISPRS WG I/2 Mobile Mapping Technology 2022-2026, secretary of the same WG in the 2016-2022 term, chair of IAG WG Vision Aided Positioning and Navigation 2020-2023) and research groups related to geomatics. He was visiting researcher at the Department of Geomatics of the University of Calgary (Canada), Mobile Multi-Sensor System (MMSS) Research Group, in 2018, and at the Digital Photogrammetry Research Group (DPRG) of the Purdue University (West Lafayette, US), in 2017.
He has been in the scientific committee of several international scientific conferences, and co-organizer of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Mapping Technology 2023. He is author of 100+ articles in international scientific journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. He is the recipient of best paper and best poster awards in International Scientific conferences (ISPRS TCII symposium 2018, FIG working week 2019) and FIG article of the month July and August 2019.
His research mainly focused on mobile mapping, positioning and navigation, photogrammetry, LiDAR data processing, visual and LiDAR odometry, statistical and mathematical modelling, machine and deep learning, semantic segmentation.

He was in the organizing/scientific committee for the following conferences/workshops:
  • GSW 2023 (Cairo, Egypt), September 2-7, 2023
  • MMT 2023 (Padova, Italy), May 24-26, 2023
  • 3D Arch (Mantova, Italy), March 2-4, 2022
  • ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 and Geomatics & Restoration, GeoRes 2021 (Valencia, Spain), April 26-28, 2021
  • Joint International Symposium on Deformation Monitoring (Athens, Greece), May 15-17, 2019
  • Geomatics & Restoration, GeoRes 2019 (Milan, Italy), May 8-10, 2019
  • The 11th Symposium of Mobile Mapping Technology, MMT 2019 (Shenzhen, China), May 6-8, 2019
  • ISPRS Technical Commission I Symposium (Karlsruhe, Germany), October 10-12, 2018
  • Geomatics & Restoration 2017, Florence (Italy)
  • La Geomatica e i beni culturali, Italian Workshop, (Padova, Italy), 2017
  • ISPRS Workshop on Laserscanning 2015, La Grande Motte (France)
He is reviewer for the following journals:
  • Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE
  • Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE
  • Automatica, Elsevier
  • Journal of Process Control, Elsevier
  • HardwareX, Elsevier
  • Sensors, MDPI
  • Remote Sensing, MDPI
  • Micromachines, MDPI
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI
  • Inventions, MDPI
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, OSA
  • Applied Optics, OSA
  • Optics Express, OSA
  • Optics Letters, OSA
  • Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, Taylor & Francis
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis
  • European Journal of Remote Sensing, AIT
  • Applied Geomatics, Springer
  • Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards, Springer
  • Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics
Selected publications with CIRGEO
Andrea@Scopus
Andrea@Google Scholar

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Last updated on 01 July 2014

Marco Piragnolo

Marco Piragnolo got his graduate degree at University of Padua in Natural Science, Conservation of Nature and Natural resources, with a thesis of fluvial geomorphology and geophysics. Then he got a specialization in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing at University of Architecture of Venice (IUAV). He currently holds a position in CIRGEO where he is working as developer for Nasa World Wind platform and he participated at two editions of World Wind Europa Challenge. He has experience in natural and environmental field, geographic information systems (GIS), WebGIS and programming with and several languages (R, Java, Php, MySql, Html).
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     Email: marco.piragnolo(at)unipd.it     Phone: +39 049 827 2522

Last updated on 01 July 2014


Visiting Researchers, Past Collaborations and Alumni

Erico Kutchartt

Born in Valdivia, Chile (1987), Erico has been working for the FRI (Forest Resource Inventory) of the Province of Ontario, Canada. Developing skills in the field data acquisition and photo-interpretation in the Boreal forests. Erico has been involved in several projects regarding geomatics topics and biomass projects as associated resercher in sevel countries as Chile, Bolivia,...
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Last updated on 04 December 2021

Francesca Fissore

Francesca, M.Sc. in Environmental Physics at University of Turin. In April 2014 she received her PhD in “Monitoring of Systems and Environmental Risk Management” at the University of Genoa, during which she dealt with low-cost sensors for the detection and monitoring of environmental parameters and developed a real time web-based monitoring tool able to acquire, manage, sm...
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     Email: francesca.fissore(at)unipd.it     Phone: +39 049 827 2522

Last updated on 01 July 2014

Daniele Perissin

Daniele Perissin was born in Milan, Italy, in 1977. He received his Master (laurea) in Telecommunications Engineering and his Ph.D. in Information Technology (cum laude) from Politecnico di Milano in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He joined the Signal Processing research group at Politecnico di Milano in 2002, and since then, he has been working on Time Series InSAR analysis in t...
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Last updated on 11 June 2018

Greg Biging

Prof. Greg Biging, Professor Emeritus at Dept of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management at UC Berkeley in Forest Biometrics and Remote Sensing, has been guest at CIRGEO and TESAF Department several times in the past years collaborating on research regarding remote sensing of environment, specifically in the field of forestry.
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Last updated on 28 June 2014