Environmental engineering MSc. Graduate at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) passionate about GIS, remote sensing and photogrammetric tools and applications.
Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering - 38th Cycle
Research Field: Geomatic methods for control and security of bridge infrastructures
Use and management of spatial data at local and provincial level. Development and
implementation of procedures in GIS environment for the management of geo-referenced
information flows with open-source tools. Main activities based on the municipality of
Bobbio and on the province of Piacenza.
Tutor for the 2021 edition of the summer school focused on land surveying and monitoring of
the Belvedere glacier in Macugnaga (VB).
Contribution to the learning resources preparation for the international "Climate Change
Induced Disaster Management in Africa" (CIDMA) MOOC with recorded presentation about
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Climate Change and Mapillary application.
Teaching assistant for the courses "Tecniche di rilievo e modellazione 3D per
l'architettura" (3D survey and modelling techniques for architecture), "GIS Applications" and "Progettazione di Sistemi Informativi Territoriali" (GIS Database
development).
"OpenStreetMap: il database geografico collaborativo per la conoscenza del territorio" course tutor for high school teachers.
12-weeks data quality training program focusing on the use and application of methodologies and instruments for ensuring the quality of geospatial features on the OpenStreetMap and GIS environment.
Responsible for all the social networks official profiles of "Il Teatro sull'Acqua" for a cultural association based in Arona (Italy, NO) that every year organizes meetings with authors and theatrical shows by the Lake Maggiore. Tutor for the school volunteers' group involved in the communication dynamics during the annual festival in September.
Master Thesis Project: "Geolocated Twitter data as a proxy for the analysis of natural disasters: the Hurricane Florence case study" Supervisor: Prof. Federica Migliaccio Co-supervisor: Katarina Spasenovic, Ph.D. Candidate Graduation mark: 106/110
Genie Civil and Sciences de la terre et des planètes, environnement
Bachelor Thesis Project: "Social Media Geographic Information: analisi geostatistiche sui dati di Instagram - Il caso di studio di Expo Milano 2015" Supervisor: Prof. Federica Migliaccio Co-supervisor: Diana Pagliari, Ph.D. Graduation mark: 93/110
Native Language
Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing: Level C1
Certification: First Certificate in English (2014)
Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing: Level B2
Certification: Français Langue étrangère (2019), OLS Assessment (2019)
ArcGIS - QGIS: Proficient User
ENVI - Agisoft Metashape - CloudCompare: Experienced User
iD – JOSM – Go Map ! – Mapillary – MapRoulette – OSMCha – OverpassTurbo – Field Papers - WikiOSM: Proficient User
Matlab – Python – SQL: Intermediate User
R - HTML5 - CSS - JS: Basic understanding
Microsoft Word – Microsoft PowerPoint – Microsoft Excel - Inkscape: Proficient User
Certification: ECDL (2012)
SAGA-GIS – HEC-RAS: Intermediate User
Migliaccio F., Pagliari D., Carrion D., Gaspari F., "Geostatistical and temporal analysis of Instagram data: The EXPO Milano 2015 case study," Proceedings ICTIC (Proceedings in Conference of Informatics and Management Sciences), DOI: 10.18638/ictic.2018.7.1.337, ISBN: 978-80-554-1436-2, ISSN: 1339-9144, vol. 7,issue 1,pp. 101 - 105, 2018
Gaspari, F., Stucchi, L., Bratic, G., Jovanovic, D., Ponti, C., Biagi, L. G. A., and Brovelli, M. A.: INNOVATION IN TEACHING: THE POLIMAPPERS COLLABORATIVE AND HUMANITARIAN MAPPING COURSE AT POLITECNICO DI MILANO, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-4/W2-2021, 63–69, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVI-4-W2-2021-63-2021, 2021.
Raviscioni, S., Rojas Bolanos, M. A., Gaspari, F., Ponti, C., Biraghi, C. A., and Tadi, M.: COLLABORATIVE MAPPING STRATEGY IN SUPPORT OF SLUM UPGRADING: THE CASE OF BOGOTÁ, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIII-B4-2022, 273–280, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2022-273-2022, 2022.
Gaspari, F., Ioli, F., Barbieri, F., Belcore, E., and Pinto, L.: INTEGRATION OF UAV-LIDAR AND UAV-PHOTOGRAMMETRY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING AND BRIDGE ASSESSMENT, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIII-B2-2022, 995–1002, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2022-995-2022, 2022.
Ruzindana, E., Gaspari, F., Ntakobangize, E., Ponti, C., Biraghi, C. A., Kilsedar, C. E., Tadi, M., Muindi, Z., Agenga, P. & Mugeha, L. (2023). Open Data Addressing Challenges Associated with Informal Settlements in the Global South. In Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 13-27). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05182-1_2
Global Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Summit 2020 (Dec 4th, 2020): “HOT Data Quality Internship: Results and perspectives of a collaborative project” – Lightning Talk (Video - Slides)
WikiMania 2021 (Aug 16th, 2021): "cOSMopolIT - Diversity and Inclusion within OpenStreetMap Italy" - Lightning Talk (Video)
FOSS4G 2021 Buenos Aires (October 1st, 2021): "Innovation in teaching: the PoliMappers collaborative and humanitarian mapping course at Politecnico di Milano" - Presentation on Academic Track (Video)
ISPRS 2022 Nice (June 6-11, 2022): "Integration of UAV-LiDAR and UAV-photogrammetry for infrastructure monitoring and bridge assessment" - Poster session
State of the Map 2021 (Jul 2021): "Collaborative and Humanitarian Mapping 2021" (Poster)
Amateur swimmer and wannabe Grand Slam tennis champion in the free time.
Cinema , tv series and literature enthusiast. Since 2013, member of editorial staff of print and digital magazines mainly focused on cultural topics:
Occasionally, piano player and guitarist in the making .