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.