Ilaria Ferrando

Ilaria Ferrando
Università degli Studi di Genova | UNIGE · Dipartimento di Ingegneria civile, chimica e ambientale (DICCA)

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This study presents a methodology to integrate drone operations into urban environments by applying existing noise regulations within urban acoustic plans. These regulations define acceptable noise levels based on land use, with specific thresholds for different zones and times of day. By employing a regression equation that assesses noise generati...
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The link: http://www.inuedizioni.com/it/prodotti/pubblicazione/inclusive-cities-and-regions-territoires-inclusifs-parallel-workshop The presented work aims to establish the optimal positioning of infrastructures such as vertiports and air corridors to improve connection with remote areas, thus regenerating neglected regions without CO2 emissions,...
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The drone industry has the potential to catalyze a positive transformation within the transportation sector. Numerous technological advancements and regulatory milestones have been achieved, resulting in significant progress in Air Traffic Management (ATM) solutions. The SESAR project, coupled with the collective efforts of various stakeholders, ha...
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Bathymetric surveys of shallow waters are increasingly necessary for navigational safety and environmental studies. In situ surveys with floating acoustic sensors allow the collection of high-accuracy bathymetric data. However, such surveys are often unfeasible in very shallow waters in addition to being expensive and requiring specific sectorial s...
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From 2014, the European Commission established guidelines for drafting the SUMP (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan), defined as “a strategic plan to meet the varied mobility demand of people and businesses in urban and peri-urban areas in order to improve the quality of life in cities”. More recently, BiciPlans were introduced as mandatory for munici...
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Turbidity is a visual property of water, related to the presence of suspended particles in waters. This parameter is measured in different water quality monitoring programmes as it can determine negative environmental effects both on the biotic and abiotic marine ecosystem. Traditional methods, e.g., in situ monitoring, offer high accuracy but prov...
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The paper presents the geomatic survey campaign carried out in the Domus V of Pompeii Archaeological site, the photogrammetric processing of the collected images and the following fruition of the deriving products deploying open-source software. Among all the produced results, the orthophotos of the vertical walls of one of the Domus V rooms are ma...
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In this paper, the state-of-the-art concerning new methodologies for surveying in coastal areas in order to obtain an efficient quantification of submerged and emerged environments is described and evaluated. This work integrates an interdisciplinary approach involving both geomatics and robotics and focuses on definition, implementation, and devel...
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The management of emergency scenario is a very complex issue, due to the risk of recurrence of the calamity itself. The present work is intended as a methodological report based on the gained professional and scientific experience of the authors, involved in the survey of several Cultural Heritage buildings hit by the earthquakes that afflicted Cen...
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The approach in the teaching process is changing, thanks to the increased awareness that a higher students’ involvement leads to a better quality of their learning. The aim is to make the students more participative, avoiding a unidirectional lesson and encouraging their wish to keep updated on the course advancements. However, innovative teaching...
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The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver is one of the many sensors embedded in smartphones. The early versions of the Android operating system could only access limited information from the GNSS, allowing the related Application Program Interface (API) to obtain only the location. With the development of the Android 7.0 (Nougat) oper...
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Integrated remote sensing techniques, such as photogrammetry from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), mobile laser scanners (MLS) and multibeam echosounders (MBES), are particularly effective in detecting and measuring coastal and seabed features and their modifications over time (4D analysis) induced by sea storms. In fact, these techniques allow the...
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In the originally published version of the chapter 5, the name of the author Stefania Viaggio was incorrect. The name has been corrected.
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The present work aims to illustrate the experience in geomatic dissemination, gained by actively participating and contributing to seminars, lectures and educational workshops, applying both traditional and innovative teaching methods. The main focus is on two educational workshops: one on altitude, its measurement techniques, issues and the evolut...
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The authors conceived the GNSS for Meteorology (G4M) procedure to remote-sense the Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) content in atmosphere with the aim to detect severe meteorological phenomena. It can be applied over an orographically complex area, exploiting existing networks of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Permanent Stations (PSs) and...
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Geomorphological survey and mapping of the emerged and submerged coastal areas, particularly addressed to evaluate sea cliff instability within the assessment of coastal hazard and risk mitigation measures, require high resolution and georeferenced spatial data. Remote sensing techniques fully satisfy these needs and allow to obtain all information...
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The potentialities of an integrated 3D remote sensing survey with the most diffuse techniques, i.e. photogrammetry from UAV, laser scanner and multibeam from survey boat, are enhanced. Such techniques are useful both to verify the state of conservation of maritime infrastructures from a structural point of view and to highlight the phenomena of ero...
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In emergency and critical scenarios, the UAV could play a key role in accessing unreachable sites in a safe and rapid way, guaranteeing at the same time the necessary accuracy and precision of the survey. In this context, UAV survey campaigns have been performed by the authors in Norcia (Italy), hit by tragic seismic events in August and October 20...
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Orthophotos are one of the most common and typical products of a photogrammetric post-processing and, since the diffusion of specific software, their generation and usage have become even more widespread. In spite of it, some issues remain on the accuracy of orthophoto reconstruction, which is often downgraded by the introduction of meshes and Digi...
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La conoscenza dell'ambiente che ci circonda, comprensivo di territorio e costruito, è di fondamentale importanza per assicurarne una migliore fruizione da parte della collettività, attraverso analisi urbanistiche e territoriali, pianificazione e realizzazione di interventi di messa in sicurezza del territorio, di consolidamento o di restauro dei be...
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DataBases (DB) are a widespread source of data, useful for many applications in different scientific fields. The present contribution describes an automatic procedure to access, download and store open access data from different sources, to be processed in a GIS environment. In particular, it refers to the specific need of the authors to manage bot...
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DataBases (DB) are a widespread source of data, useful for many applications in different scientific fields. The present contribution describes an automatic procedure to access, download and store open access data from different sources, to be processed in a GIS environment. In particular, it refers to the specific need of the authors to manage bot...
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The paper presents an innovative methodology for monitoring the content of Precipitable Water Vapour (PWV) in atmosphere for wide and orographically complex area. The water vapour content is strictly related to the occurrence of rains, hence the knowledge of PWV can be useful to interpret and monitor severe meteorological events. An automatic proce...
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The Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) is widely used in the photogrammetric surveys both of structures and of small areas. Geomatics focuses the attention on the metric quality of the final products of the survey, creating several 3D modelling applications from UAS images. As widely known, the quality of results derives from the quality of images acquis...
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The conservation of Cultural Heritage depends on the availability of means and resources and, consequently, on the possibility to make effective operations of data acquisition. In facts, on the one hand the creation of data repositories allows the description of the present state-of-art, in order to preserve the testimonial value and to permit the...
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An optimized planning and realization of the survey, coupled with well thought-out processing, allows obtaining good quality results, while guaranteeing a reasonable use of resources and time. It represents a benefit for both operators and end-users. The former can save time and acquire smaller datasets to process, while the latter can invest their...
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This study presents an innovative procedure to monitor the precipitable water vapor (PWV) content of a wide and orographically complex area with low-density networks. The procedure, termed G4M (global navigation satellite system, GNSS, for Meteorology), has been developed in a geographic information system (GIS) environment using the free and open...
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A useful contribution to atmosphere monitoring may be provided by the analysis of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals. The authors have identified a procedure to monitor in space and time the Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) content on regionally extended and orographically complex area. The starting point of the procedure is the local...
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While the theory and implementation of geographic information systems (GIS) have a history of more than 50 years, the development of dedicated educational tools and applications in this field is more recent. This paper presents a free and open source software (FOSS) approach for education in the geospatial disciplines, which has been used over the...
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The use of Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) is quite common for architectural surveys, however it requires to arrange special targets on the scanned object and to acquire several overlapping scans, which have to be aligned and edited externally. Recently, Leica released on the market a new kind of instrument, known as MultiStation (MS). It includes...
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The experimental campaign represents an example of how the careful design of the different test phases and the choice of the needed instrumentation are fundamental aspects to obtain a proper interpretation of the results, for future application on the real structures. Additionally, the present work represents a successful example of a combined moni...
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The task of conservation and management of cultural heritage is quite central in Italy, which lists a high number of beautiful architectures. A quick and precise survey may be requested in case of calamity. In the present paper, the most commonly used survey techniques are discussed, focusing on their applications for the conservation of the artist...
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Tra le opere di difesa portuale, rivestono particolare importanza le " dighe a gettata " , strutture realizzate con massi, con geometria tale da dissipare il più possibile l'energia residua delle onde e limitare il fenomeno di tracimazione. Dato l'importante ruolo di protezione dell'area portuale, è fondamentale monitorarne lo stato di conservazion...
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Come noto, l'analisi del segnale GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) può fornire un utile contributo al monitoraggio atmosferico e all'interpretazione di eventi meteorici intensi, sia a posteriori sia in near real-time. Gli autori hanno ideato una procedura per la realizzazione di mappe di vapore acqueo potenzialmente precipitabile (Precipita...
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Among the different techniques for atmosphere monitoring, the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can provide an innovative contribution (Bevis et al.,1992; Crespi et al., 2004; Sguerso et al., 2013, 2015). The Laboratory of Geomatics, Geodesy and GIS of the University of Genoa has identified a GIS procedure and a simplified physical model to...
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Among the different techniques for atmosphere monitoring, the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can provide an innovative contribution (Bevis et al.,1992; Crespi et al., 2004; Sguerso et al., 2013, 2015). The Laboratory of Geomatics, Geodesy and GIS of the University of Genoa has identified a GIS procedure and a simplified physical model to...
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Among the different techniques for atmosphere monitoring, the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can provide an innovative contribution (Bevis et al., 1992; Crespi et al., 2004; Sguerso et al., 2013, 2015). The Laboratory of Geomatics, Geodesy and GIS of the University of Genoa has identified a GIS procedure and a simplified physical model t...
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Il presente lavoro tratta il monitoraggio altimetrico di elevata precisione a supporto del collaudo statico di un ponte in acciaio sottoposto a differenti condizioni di carico. I criteri adottati per il disegno della rete altimetrica, la relativa campagna di misure e la fase di elaborazione vengono qui analizzate per la stima degli spostamenti vert...
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The present work aims to illustrate the potentiality of the GRASS command r.inund.fluv, developed in the Laboratory of Geomatics of DICCA, in the evaluation of potentially flooded areas by means of its application to the terminal reach of Magra River in Italy. Such application underlined the need of a code improvement, in order to better manage the...
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The Pollera cave is situated in the region of Liguria, Italy, and is the subject of a strategy aimed at improving and promoting tourism in the area. In this project, 3D laser scans of some of the more easily accessible cave rooms were needed to create multimedia products such as movies, images and scenes for 3D virtual tours, and to generate geocar...
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The present work is part of a series of activities involving different skills, in order to explore and document in detail one of the most visited caves in Liguria Region. In this context, in addition to speleologists, geologists, videographers, the geomatic expertise has also been involved to carry out a laser scanner survey, in order to produce a...
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Introduzione L'obiettivo del presente lavoro è l'interpolazione di dati puntuali di profondità rispetto alla superficie del DTM, al fine di generare le superfici del substrato roccioso e del livello di falda e determinarne l'andamento, con riferimento alla zona di S. Stefano d'Aveto (GE). I dati sono stati desunti dalla Tesi di Laurea Magistrale "S...

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