This volume of “Quaderni di Geofisica” collects the proceedings of the mid-term meeting of the GNV coordinated project “Development and application of remote sensing methods for the monitoring of active italian volcanoes” held on 24 and 25 January 2002 at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia in Catania. The project was supported by Dipartimento di Protezione Civile in the frame of the GNV Program 2000-2003. This research acted as a joint project between Research Institutes and Universities with the aim of improving the application of remote sensing techniques for the study of volcanoes and their activity that, in recent years, had significantly grown thanks to the availability of new sensors and new techniques for data processing. Remote sensing, by its nature, represents...