Francesco Ioli

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Politecnico di Milano

Milan, Italy

I am a post-doctoral researcher in Geomatics at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, where I work on photogrammetry and computer vision for environmental monitoring. I currently lead the image-based monitoring work of the MOHYCAM project, tackling hydrogeological hazards at the Belvedere Glacier (Monte Rosa).

My research spans multi-scale 4D monitoring — from low-cost terrestrial time-lapse cameras for high-frequency glacier dynamics to satellite multi-view stereo for regional mass-balance studies. Before returning to Politecnico di Milano I was a post-doc at CNR IRPI in Turin, working on glacier-instability risk at the Planpincieux Glacier (Mont Blanc), and at the University of Zurich. I earned my PhD here in 2024, cum laude.

I am a firm believer in open science and actively build open-source tools. Off the screen I am a certified UAV pilot with a background in topographic surveying, and I spend most of my free time in the mountains — which is probably why I ended up working on glaciers.

Photogrammetry
Image matching
3D reconstruction
Deep learning
Glacier monitoring
UAV & time-lapse
HPC

code & tools

news

Jun 01, 2026	Started a new position as Post-doctoral Researcher at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, working on the MOHYCAM project at the Belvedere Glacier.
Jul 08, 2024	Successfully defended my PhD thesis *“Multi-scale and Multi-temporal Photogrammetry for Alpine Glacier Monitoring” at Politecnico di Milano, graduating _cum laude_.

selected publications

PFG

Deep Learning Low-cost Photogrammetry for 4D Short-term Glacier Dynamics Monitoring

F. Ioli, N. Dematteis, D. Giordan, and 2 more authors

PFG – Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science, 2024

DOI Bib

@article{ioli2024pfg,
  author = {Ioli, F. and Dematteis, N. and Giordan, D. and Nex, F. and Pinto, L.},
  title = {Deep Learning Low-cost Photogrammetry for 4D Short-term Glacier Dynamics Monitoring},
  journal = {PFG -- Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1007/s41064-023-00272-w},
}

ISPRS

Deep-Image-Matching: a Toolbox for Multi-view Image Matching of Complex Scenarios

L. Morelli, F. Ioli, F. Maiwald, and 3 more authors

In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2024

DOI Bib Code

@inproceedings{morelli2024toolbox,
  author = {Morelli, L. and Ioli, F. and Maiwald, F. and Mazzacca, G. and Menna, F. and Remondino, F.},
  title = {Deep-Image-Matching: a Toolbox for Multi-view Image Matching of Complex Scenarios},
  booktitle = {International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences},
  volume = {XLVIII-2/W4-2024},
  pages = {309--316},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-2-W4-2024-309-2024},
}

Mid-Term Monitoring of Glacier’s Variations with UAVs: The Example of the Belvedere Glacier

F. Ioli, A. Bianchi, A. Cina, and 4 more authors

Remote Sensing, 2022

DOI Bib

@article{ioli2022rs,
  author = {Ioli, F. and Bianchi, A. and Cina, A. and De Michele, C. and Maschio, P. and Passoni, D. and Pinto, L.},
  title = {Mid-Term Monitoring of Glacier's Variations with UAVs: The Example of the Belvedere Glacier},
  journal = {Remote Sensing},
  volume = {14},
  number = {1},
  pages = {28},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.3390/rs14010028},
}