Department of Life Sciences · University of Trieste
Remote-sensing ecologist developing multi-scale approaches for habitat mapping, vegetation monitoring and biodiversity conservation, from field ground-truth data to satellite imagery, UAV products and deep-learning workflows.
Emilia Pafumi works on the integration of field ecology and remote sensing for biodiversity assessment and habitat mapping. Her research combines vegetation surveys with multispectral satellite imagery, LiDAR, UAV products, spectral-diversity metrics and spatial modelling.
Her PhD at the University of Siena investigated plant-diversity patterns and conservation priorities in Italian coastal dunes and developed automated habitat-mapping workflows using crisp and fuzzy classifiers as well as convolutional neural networks across multiple image resolutions and platforms.
Since May 2026 she has been working at the University of Trieste on remote monitoring of agro-forest systems in Friuli Venezia Giulia, developing approaches for crop identification, sustainable-management recognition and vegetation-condition monitoring.
University of Trieste · plant structure and function.
University of Trieste · remote sensing and habitat mapping in the Classical Karst.
University of Trieste · vegetation mapping, LiDAR and Sentinel-2 monitoring.
University of Siena · coastal-dune biodiversity, conservation priorities and habitat mapping. Final evaluation: excellent with honours.
Czech University of Life Sciences · advanced remote-sensing methods and image segmentation.
University of Trieste · remote monitoring of agro-forest systems in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Oral contribution: “Mapping crop diversity with open remote sensing data: a regional application in NE Italy”, presenting the SICANSE Sentinel-2/openEO workflow for regional crop classification and cross-year transferability.
Conference contributions and Biodiversity Lab updates directly connected to this researcher’s current work.
Conference · Remote sensing
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Journal of Vegetation Science 37, e70173
Biological Conservation 323, 112087
Ecological Informatics 86, 103059
Global Ecology and Conservation 54, e03085
Applied Vegetation Science 26, e12762
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