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Research activity
Laboratory of Geomatics Engineering
Research activity Impact on society
Researchers at the Laboratory of Geomatics Hundreds disasters related to natural and
Engineering, coordinated by Prof. Alessandro technological hazards are reported worldwide every
Capra, focus on geodetic surveying by traditional year. Thousands of people are globally killed by
and novel techniques for environmental/ disasters and the climate change together with the
structural monitoring and risk/hazard negligence of human activities strongly contribute
assessment. In the field of photogrammetry, to grow the impacts of these events. Preventive
researchers develop methodologies devoted approaches and risk mitigation plans are necessary
to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for 3D in order to avoid such enormous loss of human
reconstruction of natural and anthropogenic lives. The researches of the Geomatics Engineering
environments and approaches based on Lab contribute in designing effective actions to face
geospatial data for managing emergencies. emergencies, to protect the society and to increase
the resilience of the environment.
Context and motivation of National and international
the research academic relationships
The research activities carried out by the regarding the activity
Geomatics Engineering Lab aim at testing
new approaches and methodologies for Deformation monitoring and precision surveying
the acquisition, processing and analysis of are performed on the basis of strong relationships
geospatial data in a context of rapid evolution with national and international research institutes
of technological instrumentation, that become such as Polytechnic of Torino, University of
increasingly accessible and easy to use. The Bologna and University of Venice. Within the
researches give a tangible solution to the international scenario, the laboratory is included
needs of real world applications; among them in the SCAR Giant expert group and cooperates
the construction industry and the whole civil with University of Buenos Aires, University of
protection ecosystem. California Santa Barbara and ETH-Zurich.
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