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LiDAR and elevation data for Italy

Partial open LiDAR Openly licensed LiDAR exists, but only for limited areas such as states, provinces, cities or project sites.

Italy has no single national LiDAR survey. The Ministry of Environment's Piano Straordinario di Telerilevamento (PST) LiDAR DTM and DSM, flown along rivers and coasts, are downloadable from the Geoportale Nazionale under CC BY 4.0. Several regions and autonomous provinces publish their own open LiDAR, notably Friuli Venezia Giulia (region-wide 2017–2020 helicopter survey at about 16 points/m²), Emilia-Romagna (0.5 m DTM from the RER2022 programme), Toscana, Bolzano/Bozen and Trento.

Best open resolution
0.5 m
Open LiDAR coverage
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Datasets
10 · 10 open · 10 free
Region
Europe
Last reviewed

By state, province or region

LiDAR status by subnational area in Italy
Area Status Summary Datasets
Friuli Venezia Giulia National open LiDAR Region-wide helicopter LiDAR (2017–2020, 10–16 points/m²) with 0.5 m DSM/DTM, plus the earlier 2006–2010 Civil Protection 1 m DTM, CC BY 4.0. Nuvole punti e modelli altimetrici rilievo LIDAR RAFVG 2017–2020 , DTM_01_PCRFVG (Protezione Civile LiDAR DTM 1 m)
Emilia-Romagna Partial open LiDAR RER2022 and later LiDAR-photogrammetric campaigns provide 0.5 m DTMs and 20 cm orthophotos for priority areas, plus coastal LiDAR from 2004, 2010 and 2019, CC BY 4.0. DTM 0,5x0,5m – RER 2022 , Rilievi LiDAR della costa (2004, 2010, 2019) – DTM and DSM , Nuvola di punti rilievo LiDAR – Ferrara
Toscana Partial open LiDAR Regione Toscana publishes 1 m and 2 m LiDAR grids for parts of the region under CC BY 4.0. Regione Toscana – Rilievi Lidar
Bolzano/Bozen (South Tyrol) National open LiDAR The autonomous province publishes 2.5 m province-wide DTM/DSM, 0.5 m models for settlement areas, and LiDAR point-cloud coverages under CC0. Modello Digitale del Terreno (DTM 0,5 m) and DSM 0,5 m , Copertura nuvola LiDAR (Toposys/CGR 2004–06, Merano/Salorno 2009, Dolomiti 2010, Solar Tirol 2013)
Trento National open LiDAR The 2006–2008 provincial LiDAR survey (1 m and 2 m DSM/DTM) is downloadable from SIAT under CC BY 4.0. LIDAR rilievo 2006/2007/2008
Puglia Partial open LiDAR PST river and coastal LiDAR (1 m DTM) is available nationally; 15 cm orthophotos cover Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto. Piano Straordinario di Telerilevamento (PST) LiDAR – DTM, DSM First, DSM Last

Datasets 10

Free is not the same as open. Cost is what you pay to get the data; the licence says what you may do with it. How cost and licence are defined

Elsewhere in Europe