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Benchmark datasets have become increasingly widespread in the scientific community as a method of comparison, validation, and improvement of theories and techniques thanks to more affordable means for sharing. While this especially holds for test sites and data collected above the water, publicly accessible benchmark activities for geospatial analy...
The study of Cultural Natural Heritage (CNH) requires the development of multi-disciplinary and multi-scale methodologies for data recording, representation, and correlation from various platforms such as terrestrial, aerial and satellite sensors. The heterogeneity of geo-databases currently available demands on-site validation and time monitoring...
The first edition of the SUNRISE (Seashore and UNderwater documentation of aRchaeological herItage palimpSests and Environment) summer school was carried out in Marina di Ragusa in Sicily (Italy) from 3rd to 9th September 2022. It was jointly organized by Politecnico di Torino, IUAV, University of Sassari, FBK, University of Udine and the Universit...
GIS tools in archaeology have become fundamental for professionals and researchers around the world. In recent years, the “3D revolution” has drastically changed archaeological practices and methods, including the use of GIS. This paper presents the results of a project aimed at building an integrated system for the management and study of archaeol...
Cultural heritage preservation is becoming increasingly important in today's culture and advancements in technology are enabling more effective preservation of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. This paper proposes the development of a system for documenting intangible cultural heritage using multiple calibrated and synchronized LiDAR...
This paper explores the use of Mobile Mapping Systems (MMSs) for urban Cultural Heritage (CH) documentation, which has become an increasingly important tool in surveying for rapid and accurate mapping of both internal and external environments. The study evaluates the performance of the STONEX® X120GO SLAM Laser Scanner, a recent commercial MMS, in...
The increasing computational capacity and the reduction of production costs of electronic devices allow the adoption of new approaches to the architectural survey. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and test different low-cost sensors able to acquire odometry, depth data and RGB images processed through SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapp...
This research proposes a detailed analysis of the potential of MMS (Mobile Mapping Systems), supported by SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping) algorithms, performed on a multiscale test field in order to make a concrete contribution to the morphological study of cities. These systems, developed with the aim of acquiring a large number of po...
The use of historical maps in a digital environment can give considerable support to the study of the history of cities. It allows you to combine information from different sources, processed according to different geomatic techniques, to provide a reconstruction of urban configurations of the past and their comparison with iconographic and textual...
La fruizione delle cartografie storiche avviene sempre più spesso
tramite l’ausilio delle tecnologie digitali, che possono dare notevole supporto allo
studio della storia delle città consentendo l’integrazione delle informazioni
trasmesse dai mezzi tradizionali con le potenzialità offerte dai nuovi strumenti di
comunicazione. Il lavoro presentato p...
The ClusterLab HeModern of the Università Iuav di Venezia has been working in recent years on the study, knowledge and conservation of 20th century architecture. This interdisciplinary research group (History of Architecture, Geomatics, Building Technology, Restoration Project) intends to investigate how to analyse and evaluate the state of conserv...
Sometimes digital reconstruction interfaces with the ephemeral aspect of the Cultural Heritage. Photogrammetric survey, integrated with the most up-to-date visualization technologies, aims to the production of 3D models that can recreate and document the artifacts that were made to be short-lived.The paper deals with the documentation of an histori...
The Venetian galea (galley), dominating the Mediterranean Sea for almost 1000 years, is one of the most emblematic and fascinating objects in the history and culture of the Serenissima Republic of San Marco, the official name of ancient Venice. This boat has changed according to the needs and developments that have taken place over the centuries, p...
In recent decades, 3D acquisition by laser scanning or digital photogrammetry has become one of the standard methods of documenting cultural heritage, because it permits one to analyze the shape, geometry, and location of any artefact without necessarily coming into contact with it. The recording of three-dimensional metrical data of an asset allow...
The deep knowledge of Cultural Heritage, with historical research and interpretative analysis of materials, is fundamental to know the state of conservation and to plan potential restoration interventions. In the last years, thanks to the fast and continuous technological development, the metrical survey had a significant increase in this particula...
GAMHer (Geomatics data Acquisition and Management for landscape and built Heritage in a European perspective) is a three-year research project financed under the Italian PRIN 2015 framework (Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale). The project, started in February 2017 under the University of Bologna coordination, links other 5 Italia...
In line with the growing demand of digital documentation in the field of Cultural Heritage, nowadays survey technologies allow an immediate reading of a whole system directly in a 3D environment. The Photogrammetry Laboratory at the Iuav University of Venice had often dealt with surveying and documenting complex wooden structures. In this work, we...
Conservation of modern and contemporary cultural heritage, which goes from design objects, to architecture, to cities and territories, is certainly a current topic and in the development phase as it is underway – in the same modernity – a process of systematic replacement of architectural elements, outcome of solutions then experimental, which toda...
3D printing has seen a recent massive diffusion for several applications, not least the field of Cultural Heritage. Being used for different purposes, such as study, analysis, conservation or access in museum exhibitions, 3D printed replicas need to undergo a process of validation also in terms of metrical precision and accuracy.
The Laboratory of...
The new geomatics techniques have the aim of responding to the needs of damage documentation, risk assessment and providing support for managing and sharing data in emergency and danger conditions. The paper describes the experience of a group of researchers in geomatics and construction techniques at the Iuav University of Venice following the Emi...
A recent research on Matteo Ricci’s 1602 Chinese World Map raised, among other issues, the question of the oval graticule used before as the projection reference of the map representation. Here, we go back to the origin of the oval graticules, which almost dominated the imaging of the sixteenth-century cartography from the Contarini-Rosselli’s map...
GAMHer is a collaborative project that aims at exploiting and validating Geomatics algorithms, methodologies and procedures in the framework of new European regulations, which require a more extensive and productive use of digital information, as requested by the Digital Agenda for Europe as one of the seven pillars of the Europe 2020 Strategy. To...
The paper focuses on the educational experience produced during the International Workshop, organized by the IUAV University of Venice and dedicated to both the understanding and conservation of the maison Stein-de-Monzie “Les Terrasses”, an emblematic work of Le Corbusier’s early career period.
The villa, located in Garches (Vaucresson), was desi...
On 20th and 29th of May 2012, two powerful earthquakes struck northern Italy. The epicentres were recorded respectively in Finale Emilia (magnitude 5.9 Ml) and Medolla (magnitude 5.8 Ml) in the province of Modena, though the earthquake was formed by a series of seismic shakes located in the district of the Emilian Po Valley, mainly in the provinces...
During the last decades, the development of new digital technologies improved research methodologies as well as furthering historical iconography and cartographic representation studies. Moreover, the multidisciplinary approach based on different disciplines of knowledge (history, cartography, computer graphics and sciences) enabled the development...
The research aims at the investigation of an important map projection appeared in the beginning of sixteenth century in order to satisfy the new representational requirements due to the discovery of the “New World”. This new typology of map projection called today the oval, first introduced in Italy by Contarini and Rosselli in 1506, is in fact the...
The discussion about the origin and the evolution of the portolan charts, more than seven centuries after the appearance of the oldest extant the Carta Pisana, is still lively on going. Despite the advances made in the recent years both in the historical – thematic and the geometric aspects of this map typology there is still open and inviting the...
In the last years, the development of 3D technologies applied to the field of Cultural Heritage (CH) has led to results of the utmost importance from the point of view of preservation, valorisation, communication and fruition of our assets. In particular, we experienced many interdisciplinary projects in which, thanks to the cooperation of differen...
Negli ultimi anni, il Laboratorio di Fotogrammetria dell’Università Iuav di Venezia ha intrapreso una collaborazione con il Laboratorio di Urbanistica e Rilievo dell’Università degli Studi di Perugia, che da molto tempo si occupa delle ricerche archeologiche dell’area di Saepinum, in Molise; tale collaborazione ha riguardato prevalentemente il rili...
Digital technologies can now make an innovative contribution to urban history, lending themselves to processes aimed at achieving quite different goals, from research to training, from the dissemination to the fruition of cultural cartographic heritage. Through technological innovation and the development of multimedia tools, it is now possible to...
Nowadays, researchers widely employ the acquisition of point clouds as one of the principal type of documentation for cultural
heritage. In this paper, different digital survey techniques are employed to document a wooden ancient shipwreck, a particular and
difficult kind of archaeological finding due to its material characteristics. The instabilit...
Nowadays, researchers widely employ the acquisition of point clouds as one of the principal type of documentation for cultural heritage. In this paper, different digital survey techniques are employed to document a wooden ancient shipwreck, a particular and difficult kind of archaeological finding due to its material characteristics. The instabilit...
The paper describes how new digital methodologies can be used within the field of Cultural Heritage, not only with the aim of documenting the actual state of an architecture but to review the past transformations it has undergone, conserving and representing these histories as well. The premise to conservation and enhancement of our Heritage is a d...
The paper describes how new digital methodologies can be used within the field of Cultural Heritage, not only with the aim of documenting the actual state of an architecture but to review the past transformations it has undergone, conserving and representing these histories as well. The premise to conservation and enhancement of our Heritage is a d...
In the last few years the CIRCE Cartographic and GIS Lab of the University IUAV of Venice, in collaboration with the Muve Foundation, has been involved in an exhibition entitled "Water and Food in Venice. Stories of the Lagoon and the City", held in the Ducal Palace in Venice. The project proposes a reflection on the lagoon’s anthropic and morpholo...
Recently a collection of ancient maps was found in the Institute of Marine Sciences of CNR in Venice. The collection includes maps, perspective views, pilot books and ancient manuscripts: this work took into account a selection of maps and documents representing the Venice Lagoon and the Adriatic coast. The first part of this research focused on th...
Acquisition and processing of point clouds, allowing the high dimensional accuracy that is an essential prerequisite for good documentation, are widely used today for cultural heritage surveys. In recent years, manual and direct surveys in archaeological survey campaigns have been replaced by digital image processing and laser-scanning. Multi-image...
Geomatics technics and methods are now able to provide a great contribution to the Cultural Heritage (CH) processes, being adaptable to different purposes: management, diagnosis, restoration, protection, study and research, communication, formation and fruition of the Cultural Heritage. This experimentation was done with an eye to encouraging and p...
Underwater survey, compared to land archaeology, needs some specific techniques, because the application of some active 3D sensor, such as laser scanner, is obviously impossible. The necessity to produce three-dimensional survey, offering the same accuracy of classical terrestrial laserscanning or photogrammetric methods, combined with the request...
This research is focused on the analysis of the potential of a close range aerial photogrammetry system, which is accessible both in economic terms and in terms of simplicity of use. In particular the Go Pro Hero3 Black Edition and the Parrot Ar. Drone 2.0 were studied. There are essentially two limitations to the system and they were found for bot...
In this paper, the complementary nature of topographical and continuous inclinometric monitoring procedures for the assessment of the movements of the complex structure being built is analysed.
The processes used in the two different monitoring systems and the results obtained are described. These are characterized by a significant homogeneity in t...
Nowadays archaeological and architectural surveys are based on the acquisition and processing of point clouds, allowing a high metric precision, essential prerequisite for a good documentation. Digital image processing and laser scanner have changed the archaeological survey campaign, from manual and direct survey to a digital one and, actually, mu...
The conservation and enhancement of our cultural heritage (CH) require an exhaustive study in terms of position, shape, colour, geometry and also of the historical and artistic features. Survey methods have polished data acquisition techniques in line with technological progress. Today’s electronic and IT technologies, that are the tools of modern...
Tooteko is a smart ring that allows to navigate any 3D surface with your finger tips and get in return an audio content that is relevant in relation to the part of the surface you are touching in that moment. Tooteko can be applied to any tactile surface, object or sheet. However, in a more specific domain, it wants to make traditional art venues a...
Highly accurate documentation and 3D reconstructions are fundamental for analyses and further interpretations in archaeology. In the last years the integrated digital survey (ground-based survey methods and UAV photogrammetry) has confirmed its main role in the documentation and comprehension of excavation contexts, thanks to instrumental and metho...
This work is part of a research branch that studies how to acquire metric, semantic and symbolic information from historical maps without damaging the physical support. The technological growth regarding both mechanical instruments and digital high-resolution sensors allowed the development of suitable tools for the digitization of historical maps...
The use of action cameras for photogrammetry purposes is not widespread due to the fact that until recently the images provided by the sensors, using either still or video capture mode, were not big enough to perform and provide the appropriate analysis with the necessary photogrammetric accuracy. However, several manufacturers have recently produc...
The use of old maps as art's item is being established for many years now and the use of (both geometric and color) accurate scanning systems for the production of their digital copies' is spread worldwide. However, the geometric accuracy of an old maps' scanned digital image is of no use, at least for cartographic purposes, when certain condition'...
The paper describes how new digital methodologies can be used within the field of Cultural Heritage, not only with the aim of documenting the actual state of an architecture but to review the past transformations it has undergone, conserving and representing these histories as well.
Over the last few years, the methodologies of acquisition and inte...
In this paper we would like to present an operational procedure for surveys of complex structures, such as the wooden dome of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. The aim of this work was to analyse the shape and the geometry of this very articulated constructive technique: because of its complexity, a laser scanning survey, with the support of more tra...
Una collezione di carte antiche è stata ritrovata presso la sede ora in ristrutturazione dell'Istituto di Scienze Marine del CNR. Questo fondo cartografico, raccolto tra il 1933 e il 1945 dall'ex-Istituto di Studi Adriatici, comprende carte, vedute prospettiche, portolani e preziosi manoscritti ed inediti. Su questo materiale è stato concordato un...
The aim of this research is to study the wooden structure of the dome of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. The main purpose of this work is to analyse the shape and the geometrical and spatial knowledge of a very articulated structure that was very common in the Venetian architectural tradition of the XIV and XV century. Because of its complexity, a...
Cultural Heritage constitutes a fundamental resource for all Countries, even in economic terms, as it can be considered an extraordinary tourist attraction. This is particularly true for Italy, which is one of the Countries with the richest artistic heritage in the world. For this reason, restoration becomes an essential step towards the conservati...
The mapping and GIS Laboratory of the University IUAV of Venice owns several digital copies of historical maps, some of which concern the city of Venice, from the view by De Barbari to the most recent orthophotos. Even the most careful analysis of an historical map rarely -and almost never easily- allows the automatic individuation of correspondenc...
L'esperienza condotta su San Michele in Isola si inserisce nel fi lone di ricerca della geomatica applicata allo studio dei Beni Culturali. Il rilievo di una facciata, operazione tradizionale in architettura, si caratterizza infatti come campo di applicazione per nuove tecnologie e strumenti e come possibilità di verifi ca delle metodologie già con...
In last years all the activities developed in the cultural heritage field have shown the necessity to integrate different analytical methodologies and technologies to obtain a cognitive apparatus of our architectural monuments, both from geometric and matericalfigurative aspect. The research on the archaeological site of the roman city of Grumentum...
L’Università Iuav di Venezia ha testato sul Canal Grande le più innovative tecniche di rilevamento, in collaborazione con Riegl e Microgeo, realizzando la scansione di tutti i prospetti attraverso un sistema di acquisizione integrato da natante. The Grand Canal in Venice by boat 3d laser scanningThe Iuav University in Venice realized a test on the...
Lafrery's perspective map of Milan (1573): genesis and geometric content Summary This paper considers an analysis of the perspective view of Milan engraved by Anto-nio Lafrèry and published in 1573. The study focuses on the perspective view in or-der to define its cartographic content and to establish if it was constructed by a rigor-ous methodolog...
In cartographic heritage we suddenly find maps of the same mapmaker and of the same area, published in different years, or new editions due to integration of cartographic, such us in national cartographic series. These maps have the same projective system and the same cut, but they present very small differences. The manual comparison can be very d...
The use of geographic information systems (GIS) for the management and the analy-sis of diachronic geographical and territorial spatial distributed data is the main con-cern of this paper. This process of obtaining historical information through the read-ing of spatial changes as depicted in early maps and historical mapping in general is of main i...
Modern architecture or contemporary architecture can be quite difficult to survey. Most of the time, a survey is done as support to an analytical view that is constructed as support for a conservation or restoration project. Due to the fact that by and large, contemporary or modern architecture does not call for these types of interventions, the ca...
Acquisition, management and processing survey data in a digital form opens up exciting new opportunities to represent the territory, its architecture, and its objects efficiently by building 3D models. In the case of archaeological sites, data and information of structures on the territory and related objects, represented in territorial scale, must...
In architectural surveying aimed to restoration and to conservation, close to the traditional two-dimensional vectorial representation in orthogonal projection, raster representation has gained considerable importance. Among all raster representations, the most widely-used is the digital orthophoto. The application of laser scanners as a new instru...
The orthophoto is a powerful instrument of representation which combines radiometric and geometric properties. In architectural applications the orthophoto production cannot be performed by using the traditional orthophoto approach. True digital orthophoto is a new technique which uses several images and a complete DEM of the object in order to pro...
key words: laser scanning – complex structure survey – 3D modelling The wooden structure that supports the roof of Palazzo Ducale is very complex becouse of continuous works of maintainance and restoration occurred during centuries. The photogrammetric laboratory of CIRCE – IUAV is employed in the survey and representation of the overstanding struc...
KEY WORDS: 3D scanning, laser-based scanning, shape measurement, digital 3D models. ABSTRACT 3D digital models have a variety of applications such as the realization of 3D catalogues and virtual museum, fast prototyping, restoration and architectural supporting and monitoring. This paper reports the preliminary results of a project regarding the de...
The geometrical transformations change the spatial relationship between objects in an image. One of the principle applications of geometric transformations concerns the possibility of correcting the digital images of the distortions introduced by the camera. Often the images produced by inexpensive cameras present geometric distortions of a very la...
The Palazzo is one of the most notable monuments in the city of Padova: it was erected during the communal podestà government of Giovanni Rusconi (1218-1219), it underwent a radical restructuring by Frà Giovanni degli Eremitani in the first decade of 1300 and was almost entirely reconstructed after a devastating fire in 1420. It is still today the...
Le esigenze di documentazione sia in campo archeologico che architettonico unite alla possibilità di una gestione al computer dei modelli infografici sembrano spingere verso una convivenza tra le rappresentazioni statiche "classiche" e i modelli dinamici. Attualmente per predisporre un apparato conoscitivo appropriato, si ricorre all'uso integrato...
Riassunto Il rilievo e la rappresentazione del Giardino delle Sculture di Carlo Scarpa sono state l'occasione per confrontare sullo stesso luogo i metodi di rilievo tradizionali e consolidati, diretto, topografico e fotogrammetrico con i più recenti metodi basati sull'utilizzo del laser scanner 3D. I problemi affrontati sono vari e di varia natura:...
Analytical methods for the investigation of the possible projective properties of historic nautical maps with emphasis on the Mediterranean and the Aegean basin representations are proposed especially in view of the new digital processing techniques offered by the raster-wise analyses. A general layout for the design of the problem is presented and...
Attualmente le attività di ricerca svolte dal laboratorio di fotogrammetria del Circe si propongono
due obiettivi generali: il primo è di verificare metodi e strumenti per il rilievo di oggetti di
dimensione contenuta, come modelli lignei, globi terrestri e particolari architettonici (come ad
esempio i capitelli di uno stesso ordine che nel cors...
The Photogrammetry laboratory at CIRCE is conducting a research campaign to identify a procedure for survey and representation of warping on the façades of Gothic-era Venetian buildings. With respect to an ideal plane, the warpings can be caused by to two different sources: the first, the object of this research, involves a hypothesized "entropiomb...
La ricerca di un eventuale proprietà proiettiva nascosta nelle carte nautiche del tardo medioevo e del primo Rinascimento è un argomento spesso trattato in letteratura. Contrariamente alla diffusa convinzione che siano carte prive di sistema di proiezione, alcuni autori hanno trattato il problema soprattutto da un punto di vista teorico-intuitivo,...
Siamo soliti a considerare come patrimonio architettonico da conservare e studiare quella parte di architettura appartenente a epoche e momenti "storici" lontani dal nostro tempo. Questa classificazione è stato però messa in discussione ed oggi si ritiene necessario analizzare, studiare e conservare anche l'architettura più vicina ai nostri anni. L...
Le attività svolte negli ultimi anni nel settore dei beni culturali hanno mostrato come sia necessario integrare differenti metodi e strumenti di analisi al fine di ottenere un apparato conoscitivo del nostro patrimonio architettonico completo sua sotto l'aspetto geometrico che materico e figurativo. La ricerca condotta sull'anfiteatro di Grumentum...
