Italy

Polytechnic University of Milan

Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milan, POLIMI)

Italy，Milano

Unit：Geomatics and Earth Observation laboratory

Politecnico di Milano, as a strong GIS/RS university in Italy, has a Geomatics and Earth Observation laboratory under the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The entrance degree for the master’s program is bachelor’s degree and the duration is 2 years. After graduating from the master’s program, the student can continue pursuing the Ph.D. degree. The GIS master’s program of the school is a master’s degree in geographic information engineering that integrates environment, geographic information science, and computer science, with a relatively more emphasis on computer science.

Professors：

• Maria Antonia Brovelli: GIS, webGIS, geospatial web platform, VGI, citizen science and big geo data;
• Daniela Carrion: ‪GIS, remote sensing, geodesy.‬

University of Trento

Università degli Studi di Trento (University of Trento, UniTn)

Italy，Trento

Unit：Remote Sensing Laboratory

As a strong RS university in Italy, the University of Trento has a Remote Sensing Laboratory under the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science. The entrance degree for the master’s program is bachelor’s degree and the duration is 2 years. After graduating from the master’s program, the student can continue pursuing the Ph.D. degree. The master’s program in this department is information and communication engineering that integrates Information Engineering, Communications/Radar, Environmental Remote Sensing, etc., with a relatively more emphasis on Information and Communication Engineering.

Professors：

• Lorenzo Bruzzone: Remote Sensing, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition;
• Francesca Bovolo: Remote Sensing, Pattern Recognition.‬

University of Bologna

Bologna, Italy

Unit: Multiple

The University of Bologna is one of the oldest universities in Europe, founded in 1088, and the oldest university in the world that continues to operate today. It offers master’s programs in urban and landscape planning, geography and territorial development, earth system science, sustainable development, agricultural and forest planning, agroforestry and environmental technology, and marine engineering. It also starts PhD programs in the fields of Earth environment and climate change, agro-environment, and statistical data science.

University of Florence

Florence, Italy

Unit: Architecture

The Department of Architecture of the University of Florence offers a Master’s program in Urban and Regional Planning. The program is managed by the University of Florence, but operates in collaboration with the University of Palermo, the University of Bari, the University of Trieste and the University of Naples. In addition, the university offers doctoral degrees in earth sciences, forest resource management, agricultural and environmental sciences, and sustainable development.

University of Palermo

Palermo, Italy

Unit: Agriculture, Food and Forestry and Geoscience

The school offers master’s degree programs in forest and environmental science and technology, geographic risk and geographic resources, and environmental analysis and management. It also offers a PhD in Earth and Marine Sciences.

University of Pisa

Pisa, Italy

University of Pisa offers a master’s degree program in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining, the first of its kind in Italy. Also, it has a masters in urban health.