About the Journal

Aims

The Bollettino della Società Italiana di Fotogrammetria e Topografia - Bollettino SIFET - ISSN 1721-971X (printed) | ISSN 2784-9473 (online), is the peer-reviewed and open access journal of the Italian Society of Photogrammetry and Topography (SIFET) .

The goal of the journal is to disseminate the science and application in the field of Geomatics in the academic and professional fields, providing a platform for constructive debate and confrontations between stakeholders.

The journal is divided in four sections: Science, Profession, Education and Life. All the editorial sections are open submissions, peer-reviewed and indexed.

The Science section includes contributions with academic focus, intending new research results and innovative methods regarding Geomatic technologies and processes; in the Professional section the reader can find articles with reviews of  state of the art applications of related technologies, which are of particular interest not only to academics but also to end-users in the professional field; the Educational section is devoted to reports of dissemination of innovation and state of the art in higher education and in other levels of education (e.g. technical degrees); the last section, Life, groups all communication regarding activites which do not fall clearly in the previous three sections, but have to do with Geomatics, such as events, dissemination activities, presentations.

SIFET also manages an international peer reviewed journal, Applied Geomatics.

Scope

The following are key topics that the journal covers:

  • Photogrammetry
  • Remote Sensing
  • Cartography 
  • Surveying
  • Geodesy
  • Propagation of error
  • Digital mapping
  • Image processing and analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Indoor and outdoor positioning and navigation
  • Crowdsourcing/volunteered geographic information
  • Spatial data analysis
  • Spatial information science

 

Editorial and review process

All authors who wish to publish in the Bollettino SIFET can send their contributions for peer review after registration to the website.

Each article must have an English title, key words and abstract. The official language of the journal and of the main text is Italian, but articles written in English will be accepted.

The editorial board operates a rigorous and transparent editorial process that aims to verify quality of the contents.

The articles follow a single-blind* peer review process *[from 2022 it will be double-blind],  handled by the academic community. The review process will consider content, formatting, correct technical terminology and appropriate language, as well as innovation and originality of the article. 

After a successful review process, the manuscript is published in one of the four sections, whichever is more representative, by decision of the editorial board.

Contents are then published as soon as accepted and are immediatly openly available to everyone from the website.  At the end of each year, a printed copy of the Bollettino SIFET is distributed to all SIFET members via regular mail.

License & Copyright

The Bollettino SIFET is open access as per definition of the "Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities of 22 October 2003", without fee for reading or publishing. Articles are shared with CC-BY-SA license.

Copyright on published articles is retained by the author(s).

Read the full license and copyright information here

Code of Ethical Conduct

Bollettino SIFET endorses the standards that have been developed and published by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) website here.

Read the full ethical code here