Franco Guzzetti

ICAR/06 - Surveying and mapping

Professor Franco Guzzetti was born in Milan on 1 October 1959. He graduated in Civil Transportation Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1984. He is a member of the Association of Engineers of the Province of Milan with n° 18247. He is a reserve officer in the army, with the rank of lieutenant.
He obtained his PhD in Geodetic and Cartographic Sciences in 1989. In 1990 he became a researcher in Topography and Cartography and in 2002 became an associate professor. He teaches at the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Construction Engineering. During the first years of his tenure his research activities focused on matters relating to architectural surveying and structural testing. Subsequently his attention turned to cartography and map production and geographical database design methods to support the development of Geographical Information Systems. Recently he has developed considerable expertise and carried out important studies concerning the use of LIDAR instrumentation for geographical surveying and the management of interoperable WebGissystems. He has worked on Italian and European projects on standardisation of the surveying phase in the creation of geographical databases. He took part in working-group1 in the IntesaGisproject for drawing up specifications for topographical databases, and collaborates actively on projects of the Lombardy Region and other local authorities concerning the creation of topographical databases, interaction with land register databases, the implementation of Geographical Information Systems in relation to urban green spaces and underground technological infrastructure networks. Through specific research contracts he has drawn up “Specifichetecniche per ilrilievo e la mappaturadellereti del sottosuolo” (“Technical specifications for surveying and mapping underground infrastructure networks”) and “Specifichetecnicheaerofotogrammetriche per la produzionedeidatabase topografici” (“Aerial photogrammetry technical specifications for the production of topographical databases”).