The paper presents a GIS based model for the evaluation of land suitability to the restoration of vegetation cover in protected areas. The model classifies the land in 5 suitability classes (highly suitable, moderately suitable, marginally suitable, currently not suitable, permanently unsuitable) according to vegetational, topographical and pedological variables. The model was implemented in the northern part of the Asinara Island, one of the Italian National Parks, where low impact restoration interventions are necessary due to the degradation of vegetation cover caused by past anthropic pressure. The application of the model allowed the location of that areas suitable to such a kind of interventions
