Laura Muscas is a senior researcher at CRS4 where she has been working since 1992. She got a degree (cum laude) in civil engineering (structural section) at the University of Cagliari in 1990 and a PhD in geo-environmental engineering at the Politecnico of Torino in 1994. Her research interests are focused on the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology. She has experience in the development of GIS applications and DSS (Decision Support Systems) tools in the urban, industrial, tourist, and environmental fields; development of environmental applications based on GIS e GRID technologies; integration between GIS and environmental models (numerical and empirical). In support of these activities, she is involved in the study and development of methods for processing and analyzing multispectral and hyperspectral Remote Sensing Images. She held several short courses on GIS and has been a tutor for several Stages, Master's, and PhD thesis.