Francesco Mugnai is an assistant professor of geomatics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Florence. He obtained a Ph.D. degree with a study on the integration of laser scanning survey techniques and wireless sensor networks for the development of rapid alert systems. Laser scanning and photogrammetry for 3D mapping, aerial photogrammetry with AUV for mapping extended areas affected by deformative processes, and digital image correlation analysis for landslide deformation monitoring are his main research fields.