Vincenzo Barrile

University of Reggio Calabria | UNIRC · Department of Civil, Energy, Environment and Materials Engineering

In recent years, e-commerce has become a significant social and cultural phenomenon. Many organizations now offer their services online. Within this context, online recruitment services play an important role in supporting individuals in job searches and assisting companies in finding personnel. Conversely, the potential that AI forecasting systems...

In the context of urban sustainability and the development of resilient cities, the use of 4D geospatial data and the integration and association of building information with geographical information are of considerable interest. Achieving this integration is particularly significant in the scientific field from a technical standpoint but poses sig...

Interest in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been increasingly growing in recent years, especially for purposes other than those for which they were initially used (civil and military purposes). Currently, in fact, they are used for advanced monitoring and control purposes, for 3D reconstructions of the territory and cultural heritage, and for f...

Over the past two decades, we have witnessed significant progress in the digitization of artistic and cultural heritage, which was initially aimed at conservation and analysis but has since expanded its scope to emphasize the dissemination and knowledge of artworks and sites of historical, archaeological, and architectural interest. For ancient vil...

Landslides represent a growing threat among the various morphological processes that cause damage to territories. To address this problem and prevent the associated risks, it is essential to quickly find adequate methodologies capable of predicting these phenomena in advance. The following study focuses on the implementation of an experimental WebG...

Urban planning and land cover management represent crucial challenges in the design and sustainable development of cities from the perspective of energy management. This article presents a methodology for integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as an advanced tool for building energy management, allo...

Digital image processing holds an increasingly essential role in the medical domain. This study emphasizes the significance of researching and implementing methods aimed at the segmentation of critical image regions and potential noise reduction, which is indispensable for medical professionals in disease diagnosis. Consequently, the investigation...

Mapping of Cultural Heritage is a crucial process aiming at safeguarding and promoting the unique identity, history, and traditions of a particular community or region. This practice involves the documentation, conservation, and interpretation of various aspects of Cultural Heritage, which can be conducted through Geomatics techniques including the...

In a world in continuous evolution and in which human needs grow exponentially according to the increasing world population, the advent of new technologies plays a fundamental role in all fields of industry, especially in agriculture. Optimizing times, automating machines, and guaranteeing product quality are key objectives in the field of Agricult...

As is well known, image segmentation is widely used in the fields of echocardiography and diagnostic and interventional radiology. The delineation of structural components of various organs from 2D images is a technique used in the medical field in order to identify intervention targets with increasing precision and accuracy. In recent decades, the...

Data from the Copernicus project are proving to be fundamental in so many areas of spatial governance, and in particular in the context of safeguarding the cultural and natural heritage. This is mainly due to their dissemination mode, which allows them to be used by a countless number of institutions and organizations. With regard to their use in o...

Initially used exclusively for military scopes, RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) have become increasingly common and versatile thanks to continuous technological innovations and today they find applications in many other fields. Two of the most interesting applications of drones concern the transport of goods and the monitoring/control of c...

Until now, in the design phase of infrastructures there has been a general tendency to “economize” the resources allocated to them. This modus operandi did not consider the installation of monitoring and control systems as an integral part of the infrastructure itself, not considering the high post-intervention costs. This work aims to show how the...

In the last years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) – systems have become relevant for multiple purposes in different fields of study. The purpose of this work is presenting an innovative experimental system for the assessment of the structural conditions of buildings and infrastructures through continuous monitoring stations based on the use of UAVs....

In recent times, the need for the management and monitoring of steel structures (bridges, but also buildings) has become more and more important; consequently, a new phase has opened up aimed at the surveillance and monitoring of these structural types with the objective of their protection and preservation, also through preventive maintenance acti...

Geomatics is important for agriculture 4.0; in fact, it uses different types of data (remote sensing from satellites, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-UAVs, GNSS, photogrammetry, laser scanners and other types of data) and therefore it uses data fusion techniques depending on the different applications to be carried out. This work aims to present on a stud...

In this paper a framework for the rapid seismic risk assessment of bridges using aerial surveys using Unmanned Aerial Systems is presented. The acquisition process to obtain data for the photogrammetric 3d reconstruction and the procedure for the automatic extraction of the visible variables using computer vision are described. The extracted featur...

In the field of extreme weather and climate events management and territorial protection, there is an increasing need for decision support tools that allow the creation of the most realistic virtual scenarios in time for prevention and the design of risk containment systems. This paper describes the operation of an atmospheric simulator capable of...

The purpose of this research is to help clarify how digital and technological transformation can contribute to improving the protection of the cultural heritage of our nation, through the creation of an innovative monitoring system of cultural heritage, where it is possible to faithfully reproduce the study area in a short period of time, analyzing...

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the need for rapid and digital monitoring means for managing information relating to the spread of the virus. The researchers have produced some innovative experiments in this sense, using geomatics technologies and technologies for the treatment of Big Data. In this research, we used an integrated platf...

Three-dimensional digital acquisition techniques can be useful in archaeology because they make a further technological contribution to the visualization of finds and structures. The possibility of integrating three-dimensional models from different acquisition systems (laser scanner, UAV, reflex and Georadar) is even more exciting. One of the pecu...

Nowadays, a great interest in historical installations like museographic devices in international museological studies (capable of giving space form during user communication) is largely attributable to new techniques of immediate communication. Tools and libraries for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality content have recently become increasingly...

In this paper, we want to propose an investigation and a re-reading of the “Conventazzo” of San Pietro di Deca in Torrenova (ME), through the use of geomatics techniques (laser scanner, UAV—Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-photogrammetry and BIM—Building Information Modeling) and a reconstruction and representation of different morpho-typological phases tha...

In the National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria (Southern Italy) are located two full-size bronzes cast around the 5th century BC: The “Bronzi di Riace”. Thanks to their outstanding manufacture, they truly represent significant sculptural masterpieces of Greek art in the world. This paper describes the methodology used by the Geomatics Lab...

In the context of the monitoring and control of the Italian transport infrastructure heritage, both with regards to existing network and infrastructure works, an experiment has been developed: it combines geomatic and soft computing techniques in order to produce a system which aimed at both solving Early Warning problems and it is able to generate...

There are several studies related to the cultural heritage digitization through HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modelling) techniques. Today, BIM (Building Information Modelling) software cannot represent old buildings with complex prominent and particularly detailed architecture perfectly, and multiple software are combined to obtain the build...

Our society is heavily dependent on many interdependent and complex critical infrastructures. Deficiencies in the functionality of the transportation network (e.g., vehicular traffic interruptions or limitations) can cause enormous inconvenience to communities and people. The Italian transport infrastructure heritage and new infrastructure construc...

Geodynamic phenomena monitoring is constantly evolving; however, earthquake prediction is still impossible. The acquired big data over time availability allows us to create specific models to simulate these phenomena. Generally, earthquakes happen in clusters, and major aftershocks are preceded by other small aftershocks. Applying mathematical mode...

The application in question is aimed, in the study of deformations of mountain areas, as well as test the TLS applied to a hilly area in two different eras. For this purpose, it was also tested using the algorithm LS3D “Least square 3D surface matching” that allows both the registration of point clouds produced by scans carried out without using ta...

In eastern countries the use of bamboo as sustainable and local material is becoming a standard. The integration of this environmentally friendly material in complex structure and buildings is appreciated also from an architectural point of view. In this paper a digitalization of a bamboo spatial truss structure using aerial photogrammetry and comp...

Research aims to provide a strategy to start mitigate the over consumption of fossil energy in buildings and the inter connected over burning of energy fossil sources: methane; oil; coal. All this, through energy efficiency or “passivation” of all buildings in whole districts, quarters, cities using cork, a unique and very highly performing nature-...

The purpose of the research carried out by the Laboratory of Geomatics of the University of Reggio Calabria is to revive firsthand through applications of virtual reality natural scenarios and/or underwater artifacts within the framework of underwater heritage.

Nowadays, the law defines as “cultural heritage” a big number of artifacts, many of which are unfortunately in a state of decay. Their conservation and restoration are fundamental to preserve their history, and for this reason all the manufacts need to be kept in a good state maintaining their integrity and duration, without interrupting their acce...

Today, tourism plays a key role in our country’s economy. With the advent of smart cities, there is a growing trend to introduce urban planning strategies aimed to optimize and innovate public services in order to relate the material infrastructure of cities “with the human, intellectual and social capital of those who live there”. The introduction...

Come è noto, la metodologia di trilaterazione, solita-mente utilizzata dagli operatori umani durante i rilievi su-bacquei, implica l'utilizzo di un grande lasso di tempo a causa della sua complessità (difficoltà oggettiva del sot-tomarino nel mantenere una posizione stabile, errori, im-precisioni, tempi limitati disponibili in questi ambienti). Una...

Fires continue to devour hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest even in 2020, generating gigantic damage to the ecosystem, if we think that we are in the midst of a climate crisis caused precisely by CO2 emissions into the atmosphere by man, due to burning of fossil fuels. The action to safeguard the territory and the fight against its progres...

Road infrastructures systems are critical in many regions of Italy, counting thousands of bridges and viaducts that were built over several decades. A monitoring system is therefore necessary to monitor the health of these bridges and to indicate whether they need maintenance. Different parameters affect the health of an infrastructure, but it woul...

After earthquakes, international and national organizations must overcome many challenges in rescue operations. Among these, the knowledge of the territory and of the roads is fundamental for international aid. The maps that volunteers make are a valuable asset, showing the roads in the area affected by the seismic events, a knowledge which is nece...

Preventive safety analyses can help to indicate the presence of situations on a road track potentially at risk for circulation. The key objective of safety analysis is to provide a greater level of safety for all road users. In this paper the evaluation of the road degradation through image by UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is presented. A commercia...

BIM is a methodology applied to the realization of design models applied to new buildings. To date, however, most of the building interventions as it happens in the field of cultural heritage are developed in the existing. For this reason, scan to BIM procedures are improved and improved every day to make the use of BIM easier. This document will d...

The proposed research activity is based on the study and development of advanced monitoring techniques for the inspection and mapping of road infrastructures. Data detection (initial and periodic) is one of the most important phases of the process to be followed for the knowledge of the current state of road infrastructure and this is fundamental f...

The tourism sector is one of the major industries in Italy that has a high impact on local communities in terms of employment and economy. To show the results of a research project highlighting the use of new technology in the tourism sector, the Geomatics Laboratory of the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria has developed a mobile applicati...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) allows us to have information about the structure under investigation and thus to create analytical models for the assessment of its state or structural behavior. Exceeded a predetermined danger threshold, the possibility of an early warning would allow us, on the one hand, to suspend risky activities and, on the...

In the ‘Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Magna Grecia' in Reggio Calabria (south Italy) are located two full-size bronzes cast around the 5th century BC: The Riace Bronzes; thanks to their outstanding manufacture, they truly represent significant sculptural masterpieces of Greek art in the world. This paper describes the methodology used by the G...

The Riace Bronzes are two full-size bronzes cast around the 5th century BC, located at the ‘Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Magna Grecia’ in Reggio Calabria; they truly represent significant sculptural masterpieces of Greek art in the world due to their outstanding manufacture. This paper describes the methodology for the achievement of a 3D mod...

In this paper a workflow for bridges and viaducts aerial survey through Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is presented.

This note presents the experimental results deriving from the application of two innovative photogrammetric techniques (with particular reference to non-conventional photogrammetric applications) for the production of time-space 3D models of the marine surface. Moreover, the first method (automatic three images processing (ATIP)) proposes some easy...

The renewed interest, in the context of international museological studies, for historical installations such as museographic devices (able to give shape to a space duly dialoguing with the user), is due today to their communicative immediacy. In recent years the availability of libraries and tools for the use of augmented reality (AR) content has...

Relevant cultural heritage buildings have been subject to numerous maintenance interventions over the years. Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology is already part of the construction industry especially in the design phase and is considered as a very useful tool. From a survey with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), using photogrammetry...

Modern surveying techniques, with the combined use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with low-cost photographic sensors, and photogrammetric techniques, allows obtaining a precise virtual reconstruction of environment and object with centimetre accuracy. Recently, the diffusion of UAV allows the survey of extensive areas significantly reducing surv...

On 21 and 22 August 1972, a young diver near the coast of Riace Marina (South Italy) found two bronze statues representing one of the highest moments of the sculptural production and the most important archaeological discovery of the last century: the Riace Bronzes. The Geomatics Laboratory of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria sets a...

The digital representation of hydraulic engineering works such as dykes or barriers is a sector that is becoming increasingly important. In general, however, the 3D relief of semi-submerged structures is still a problem. The Geomatics Laboratory in collaboration with CNR-IPCF of Messina as part of a broader project to analyze the variations of the...

p>3D modelling of archaeological and historical structures is the new frontier in the field of conservation science. Similarly, the identification of buried finds, which enhances their multimedia diffusion and restoration, has gained relevance. As such sites often have a high level of structural complexity and complicated territorial geometries, ac...

Early detection and measurement of the distresses are necessary to keep the pavement functions at an acceptable level and to pledge the safety users. The use of digital photography in order to record pavement images and, later, to identify the surface distresses has undergone continuous improvements during recent years. Image measurement methods ar...

The local authorities that are responsible for the management of road infrastructures must have by law a Road Cadastre by realizing one from scratch or updating the existing one. The Italian road network is spread over 160,000 km of state and provincial roads, so in the face of an efficient solution in terms of costs/performance, a rapid timetable...

The aim of road surface monitoring is to detect the distress on paved or unpaved road surfaces. Depending on the types of surface rupture, required parameters are measured on-site to determine the severity level of the road damage. Local infrastructure engineers and supervisors must therefore optimize their resources when monitoring road conditions...

Regarding the current necessity to reduce energy consumption, and to redefine energy supply systems, the territorial and urban planning, opens up interesting new, development scenarios in GIS based on multi criteria analysis, with particular reference to the modelling and innovative implementation phase. The accurate knowledge of the territory with...

Nowadays, the law define as "cultural heritage" a big amount of artifacts. It is immense and in continuous expansion.The need to know as much as possible about the goods and to maximize its duration while maintaining its integrity and its accessibility to the public, has led to the search for increasingly effective solutions to fulfill the purpose....

For years, the Laboratory of Geomatics of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria has undertaken an interdisciplinary project for the recovery and dissemination of information regarding the cultural-artistic and archeological heritage of the metropolitan area. The combined use of geomatics technologies (laser scanners, GPS positioning, digi...

The high congestion of airports, due to the increase in air traffic demand and the lack of significant infrastructure interventions, must be accompanied by a high level of security in airport areas. The risk related to interference between aircraft and vehicles during ground movements is still high and, for this reason, adequate distances must be e...

The Riace Bronzes, called also Riace Warriors, are hosted in Reggio Calabria, at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Magna Grecia. The two statues are full-size bronzes cast about 5th century BC and were discovered in the coast of Riace (RC) in 1972. They represent one of the most important sculptural masterworks of the Greek art in the world, f...

This paper deals with a test lead by Geomatics laboratory (DICEAM, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria), concerning the application of UAV photogrammetry for survey, monitoring and checking. The study case relies with the surroundings of the Department of Agriculture Sciences. In the last years, such area was interested by landslides and sur...

The degradation of buildings, or rather the decline of their initial performances following external agents both natural (cold-thaw, earthquake, salt, etc.) and artificial (industrial field, urban setting, etc.), in the years lead to the necessity of developing Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) intended to give useful information for an explanation of...

In this study, using technologies such as laser scanner and GPR it was desired to see their potential in the cultural heritage. Also with regard to the processing part we are compared the results obtained by the various commercial software and algorithms developed and implemented in Matlab. Moreover, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality allow inte...

The paper describes and analyses the evolution of the shoreline in front of Reggio Calabria’s promenade through a time period of the last thirty years. To identify the shoreline through this time slice, satellite imagery was analyzed, together with cartography data, aerial photos, and data collected from a survey using an UAV. In addition, the wave...

In 3D imaging and modeling, several applications require the definition of conceptual models, which imply the knowledge of the 3D topology. Working in 3D, as well known, is much more complex than in 2D. The combined study of topologic and geometric relations between primary elements and symmetries in the spaces in which the complex objects are loca...

On the Waterfront Italo Falcomatà of Reggio Calabria you can admire the most extensive tract of the walls of the Hellenistic period of ancient city of Rhegion. The so-called Greek Walls are one of the most significant and visible traces of the past linked to the culture of Ancient Greece in the site of Reggio Calabria territory. Over the years this...

As well known, Big Data is a term for data sets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications aren't sufficient to process them. The term "Big Data" is referred to using predictive analytics. It is often related to user behavior analytics, or other advanced data analytics methods which from data extract value, and rarely to a pa...

More and more often, there is talk of autonomous cars or “intelligent guidance” that can detect and navigate without human intervention. The proposed system is a vehicle equipped for the Mobile Mapping System (MMS) with sensors that fathom the environment with radar techniques, LIDAR, GPS and cameras, capable of tracking paths, identify obstacles,...

Main objective of this work is to suggest some easy procedures to solve typical non-linear problems of analytical photogrammetry, which are also frequent in digital photogrammetry. In particular, we propose a two-steps procedure based on two phases: Relative Orientation and Absolute Orientation, both characterized by non-linear functions. It is fir...

Recent advances in the techniques of laser scanning and the increase in computing power in last years have enabled astonishing experiments of virtual reality. The three-dimensional digitizing of cultural heritage and its modeling are so becoming increasingly widespread. This work shows a comparison between the consolidated operating mode of the las...

Several non-linear problems, typical of analytical photogrammetry and frequent in digital photogrammetry, can be solved with some easy procedures. In this work we propose a two-steps procedure based on two phases: Relative Orientation and Absolute Orientation, both characterized by non-linear functions. In the first step, it is firstly necessary to...

On the Waterfront Italo Falcomatà of Reggio Calabria you can admire the most extensive tract of the walls of the Hellenistic period of ancient city of Rhegion. The so-called Greek Walls are one of the most significant and visible traces of the past linked to the culture of Ancient Greece in the site of Reggio Calabria territory. Over the years this...

As well known, Big Data is a term for data sets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications aren’t sufficient to process them. The term “Big Data” is referred to using predictive analytics. It is often related to user behavior analytics, or other advanced data analytics methods which from data extract value, and rarely to a pa...

In 3D imaging and modeling, several applications require the definition of conceptual models, which imply the knowledge of the 3D topology. Working in 3D, as well known, is much more complex than in 2D. The combined study of topologic and geometric relations between primary elements and symmetries in the spaces in which the complex objects are loca...