{"id":1682,"date":"2026-09-10T02:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/?page_id=1682"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:24:20","slug":"agritech-leaf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/projects\/agritech-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"AGRITECH\u2013LEAF \u2013 reaLizing the potEntial of itAlian mountain Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2022\u20132025 \u00b7 PNRR \u2013 National Research Centre for Agricultural Technologies AGRITECH \u00b7 Spoke 7 \u00b7 Task 7.2.2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<!-- forestlab-project-image:start -->\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large forestlab-project-main-image\">\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"\nsrc=\"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-08-agritech-leaf-1024x683.jpg\"\nalt=\"Drone used for forest monitoring\"\nclass=\"wp-image-1726\"\n srcset=\"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-08-agritech-leaf-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-08-agritech-leaf-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-08-agritech-leaf-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-08-agritech-leaf-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/09\/forestlab-08-agritech-leaf.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: Jamie Balke \/ USDA Forest Service \u00b7 Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Photos_of_Drone,_CGNF_(53251252750).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<!-- forestlab-project-image:end -->\n\n\n<p>LEAF \u2013 <em>reaLizing the potEntial of itAlian mountain Forests to provide goods and services to society<\/em> \u2013 investigated how the potential of Italian mountain forests can be realised while jointly maintaining wood production, protection from hydrogeological hazards, climate regulation and the resilience of marginal mountain communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ForestLab developed four integrated components: <strong>Biomass Analyst<\/strong>, combining machine learning, satellite data, LiDAR and UAV observations to estimate biomass, harvestability, protection and carbon; <strong>Forest Simulator<\/strong>, modelling forest dynamics under alternative climate and silvicultural scenarios; <strong>Forest Restorer<\/strong>, integrating species distributions, wildfire risk and management optimisation; and <strong>Forest Carbon Assistant<\/strong>, addressing carbon stocks and sinks, vulnerability and material and energy substitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related research lines:<\/strong>\n<a href=\"\/en\/sustainable-forest-management-planning\/\">Sustainable forest management and planning<\/a> \u00b7\n<a href=\"\/en\/monitoring-remote-sensing-forest-modelling\/\">Monitoring, remote sensing and forest modelling<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reports and outputs:<\/strong>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/agritechcenter.it\/it\/llab_spoke_7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGRITECH \u2013 Spoke 7<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022\u20132025 \u00b7 PNRR \u2013 National Research Centre for Agricultural Technologies AGRITECH \u00b7 Spoke 7 \u00b7 Task 7.2.2 LEAF \u2013 reaLizing the potEntial of itAlian mountain Forests to provide goods and services to society \u2013 investigated how the potential of Italian mountain forests can be realised while jointly maintaining wood production, protection from hydrogeological hazards, climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":1726,"parent":570,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1682","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1682\/revisions\/1729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}