Technical and scientific protocol for multitemporal airborne surveying

This paper presents a first technical‐scientific step on the multitemporary airborne surveying activities (2012-2013) for the discretization of the cannabis’ cultivation in natural, off and inaccessible environment. These activities were conducted by a university‐military team of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design "L. Vanvitelli" of the Second University of Naples (SUN) and of Gruppo Esplorazione Aeromarittima (GEA‐GdiF) of Guardia di Finanza. After verifying the scientific procedures planned, and experiencing the technical and operational protocol at the air task in Albanian territory (2012), the attention has been given to multi‐temporal reading, and the intersection of the data acquired ‐ through the platform sensors, specially configured ‐ and stored in a geodatabase. The integrated interpretation of the data produced a territory’s theming, based on the previous experience, the subsequent oriented planning of flights ‐ also with a view to also with a view to resource optimization – and based on the discretization of tree species in relation to geomorphological data in support of the signature spectral. During the last airborne surveying activity (2013) in Albanian territory, it was also used a high resolution photographic camera added visible information to spectral information (scientific type). The visible information are especially useful for communicating the procedures and the results achieved to the institutional bodies of the Republic of Albania. The comparative results of the two years of remote sensing led to a greater awareness and understanding of the specific nature of the Albanian territory, and of the techniques and temporal processes of cannabis’ cultivation, so to highlight a series of items for study and ex‐ante control the phenomenon’s evolution.