Benedetto Villa

Benedetto Villa
Università degli Studi di Palermo | UNIPA · Department of civil, environmental, aerospace, and materials engineering (DICAM)

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Il lavoro illustra i risultati conseguiti nell'ambito di uno studio condotto sulle immagini Quickbird standard per valutarne le potenzialità, sia dal punto di vita geometrico che qualitativo.
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The survey in underwater environment has always presented considerable difficulties both operative and technical and this has sometimes made it difficult to use the techniques of survey commonly used for the documentation of Cultural Heritage in dry environment. The work of study concerns the evaluation in terms of capability and accuracy of the Au...
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This paper shows the first results of a study aimed at monitoring the deformations of the dome of the Massimo Theatre in Palermo caused by thermal dilatations, with the use of topographic and photogrammetric integrated techniques. Particularly, two robotic total stations and high precision digital photogrammetric systems were employed. In order to...
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Sommario. L'articolo riporta i primi risultati di uno studio finalizzato al monitoraggio delle deformazioni della cupola del Teatro Massimo di Palermo provocate dalle dilatazioni termiche, con l'impiego di tecniche topografiche e fotogrammetriche integrate. In particolare, sono state utilizzate due stazioni totali robotizzate e sistemi di fotogramm...
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Le procedure per la realizzazione di modelli 3D di beni culturali ad alta risoluzione richiedono in genere sia fasi di rilievo impegnative sia operazioni di elaborazione ed editing dei dati spesso assai onerose dal punto di vista computazionale ed operativo. In particolare, il numero enormemente elevato di punti che deriva dalla fase di acquisizion...
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The diffusion of the use of Geographical Information Systems in archaeology has considerably increased in recent years. This multiplicity of applications is due mainly to the growing interest of archaeologists in modern methodologies for the management of archaeological data, surveyed by topographic, photogrammetric and remote sensing techniques. G...
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A first topographic survey of Grotte della Gurfa was carried out by Prof. Marescalchi in 1995. In 2009 a second survey was executed with the use of more recent techniques (total station, laser scanning, GPS). The comparison between the two surveys provides valuable indications to assess the evolution of the Geomatics techniques in these fifteen yea...
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The advance of information technology has enabled in recent years new fruition scenarios for cultural heritage sites. Multidisciplinary approaches integrate survey techniques with multimodal interfaces to allow enhanced fruition for larger group of users. In this paper we propose a multimodal interface to a virtual representation of a medieval ceil...
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Riassunto La sperimentazione descritta in questo lavoro riguarda la prima parte di un progetto di ricerca, tuttora in corso, che vede coinvolti l'Istituto Geografico Militare e il Dipartimento di Rappresentazione dell'Università di Palermo (DIRAP), avente come tema il raffittimento della rete IGM95 in Sicilia con l'impiego delle Reti di Stazioni Pe...
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In this paper the electromagnetic fields measured in dynamic way and static way are compared. The experimental tests are been carried out using a car, and over that a GPS antenna and a EMC receiver is been installed, equipped with a data treatment software; 6-minutes static measurements and dynamic ones is been carried out. In the selected area for...
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This paper deals with the survey and communications of Cultural Heritage through the development of innovative methodologies. The case of study is the polychrome wooden ceiling in the "Magna" Hall of "Palazzo Steri". The "Steri", built in the XIV th century by the noble family Chiaromonte, is at the present the headquarter of the Rector's Office of...
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In these last years employment and spreading of GPS real-time kinematic techniques is greatly improved. Its application field is extended from traditional topographic surveys to environmental applications. In this work a monitoring project of electromagnetic pollution is shown; this project has been carried out in order to realize an infrastructure...
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Nell’ambito di una collaborazione con il Laboratorio di Fisica dell’Agenzia Regionale di Protezione dell’Ambiente (ARPA) Sicilia è stato condotto uno studio relativo alla realizzazione di un sistema avanzato per il monitoraggio ambientale, attraverso l’integrazione di strumentazione tradizionale GPS e sensori in grado di acquisire parametri fisici...
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Telephone and radio communications are based on the electromagnetic wave motion in the ether, that may cause electromagnetic pollution. Italian laws provide surveying on electromagnetic emissions, standing on the point of interest with certified instruments for six minutes. Measures carried out according to this procedure are so long and expensive...
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Riassunto > La ricerca in corso è orientata alla definizione di standard di strutturazione della cartografia numerica (in relazione alle diverse scale nominali e al contenuto semantico) compatibile con i GIS, WEBGIS, LBS. Sulla base delle analisi critiche di tali sistemi e del funzionamento dei relativi software è stato definito un possibile modell...
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The paper describes one of the first outcomes of an Italian national research Project on inertial positioning in photogrammetry. The focus of the paper is on the quality which is attainable from direct photogrammetry in an industrial production context. Even if GPS/IMU -aided photogrammetry is used rather widely, it is still useful to perform rigor...
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The paper describes the first results of a study, supported by an Italian research project "Integrated Inertial Positioning Systems in Aerial Photogrammetry" on the potential use of these techniques for production of digital large scale orthophotos. The study has been done with aerial photographs collected from two different flights executed in Sic...
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This paper describes the first results of a study, carried out within the national research program "Cofin2001", on the potential use of high resolution satellite images for making digital orthophotos at a scale of 1:5000 and 1:10,000. Particularly, images from IKONOS II and QuickBird of four different types of areas were employed: the first area i...
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Aerial photos, both in colour and in black and white, have always been very important tools in archaeological surveys. Sensors, called hyperspectral, were available on the market for some years: they are able to expand the research beyond the visible area of the electromagnetic spectrum as far as the thermal infrared too. The use of these sensors,...
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Riassunto > La nota descrive i primi risultati di un Progetto di ricerca italiano sul posizionamento inerziale in fotogrammetria. L'articolo riguarda in particolare la qualità ottenibile nelle misure fotogrammetri-che con fotogrammi orientati direttamente e acquisiti in un contesto produttivo. Anche se la fotogrammetria supportata da GPS/IMU è abba...
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This paper deals with an application of numerical cartography, carried out by means of digital photogrammetry techniques, aimed at the planning of mobile telephony cells. Particularly, urban 3-D vector models (wireframe), got by digital restitution and integrated by raster images referred to rectified buildings facades, were carried out in a sample...
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In these last years employment and spreading of GPS real-time kinematic techniques is greatly improved. Its application field is extended from traditional topographic surveys to environmental applications. In this work a monitoring project of electromagnetic pollution is shown; this project has been carried out in order to realize an infrastructure...
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Archaeology is one of the sectors that can benefit by new surveying techniques (i.e. those ones related to the use of GPS) for the representation and the management of an archaeological site. Another aspect of the archaeological sector that can take advantage from the use of both GPS and GIS instruments is guided visits of archaeological sites. Tod...
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In these last years employment and spreading of GPS real-time kinematic techniques is greatly improved. Its application field is extended from traditional topographic surveys to environmental applications. In this work a preliminary monitoring project of electromagnetic pollution is shown; this project has been carried out in order to realize an in...
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Abstract The project goal is to define a new,way to access information,about the campus,of University of Palermo, based upon geographical data and accessible through Internet. Toachieve,this aim a new ,way to ask ,for information on a ,geographical portal was defined: the geographical,information ,is just ,the main ,access point ,to a ,geographical...
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The preservation of the cultural heritage has become at present a subject of fundamental importance in Italy, above all because of the numerous unhappy events, due to not only natural reasons, happened in these last years. Besides this problem is particularly urgent in Sicily, because of the existence of a considerable cultural heritage and in abse...
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Riassunto Il lavoro affronta le problematiche relative all'impiego delle immagini satellitari Ikonos per applicazioni di tipo cartografico. Lo studio è stato condotto utilizzando due scene di due differenti zone del territorio siciliano. Per entrambe le zone sono state utilizzate sia le immagini pancromatiche che quelle multispettrali. In una prima...
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This paper proposes a study on the virtual reconstruction of temple B in Selinunte. It is the smallest of Selinunte's temples yet, despite its size, it has been the subject of great interest and debate by scholars since its discovery in 1823. The studies carried out throughout the XIX century and the first half of the XX century provided different...

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