Gherardo Chirici

Gherardo Chirici is Full Professor at the University of Florence (Italy), chair of Forest inventory and remote sensing, director of geoLAB – Laboratory of Forest Geomatics (www.geolabforest.com). As data scientists his main research interests are the integrated use of remote and proximal sensing for forest inventory and monitoring, landscape ecology, biodiversity monitoring, urban forestry, multiscale land management and sustainable forest management. Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Remote Sensing, he authored more than 200 papers and several books. Coordinator of IUFRO Unit 4.02 Forest resources inventory and monitoring.