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Geophysical and Remote Sensing Techniques for Evaluating Historical Stratigraphy and Assessing the Conservation Status of Defensive Structures Heritage: Preliminary Results from the Military Buildings at San Filippo Bastion, Cagliari, Italy

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This paper describes the preliminary results of integrated non-destructive surveys for the diagnosis of the materials and for the analysis of the underground structures of an historical building. The studied structure was built in the center of Cagliari, Italy. A single channel 200 MHz Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey was carried out in order to provide the 3D reconstruction of the buried structures localized under the floor level of two rooms of the structure. Two 3D models of the underground environments were derived from orthogonal radar profiles. In addition, active Infrared Thermography (IRT) and Multispectral Imaging techniques (MSI) were utilized to perform the non-invasive inspection of the conditions of the surface materials. IRT images were processed via the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique. The reflective patterns of the GPR maps allowed to locate several buried anomalies. IRT data and MSI images have provided a fundamental support to enhance discontinuities and defects of the investigated surfaces.

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Authors would like to thank also Luigi Noli and Mario Sitzia from University of Cagliari for their invaluable technical support. This research was performed with the fundamental help of the students of the degree in Architecture. Moreover, this work would not be possible without the support of the in charge local authorities of Comando Militare Esercito “Sardegna”. Authors thank all of them for their contribution.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, DICAAR, UniCA, Cagliari, Italy

    Luca Piroddi, Sergio Vincenzo Calcina, Donatella Rita Fiorino, Antonio Trogu & Giulio Vignoli

  2. Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, DSCG, UniCA, Cagliari, Italy

    Silvana Grillo

  3. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland GEUS, Aarhus, Denmark

    Giulio Vignoli

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Piroddi, L., Calcina, S.V., Fiorino, D.R., Grillo, S., Trogu, A., Vignoli, G. (2020). Geophysical and Remote Sensing Techniques for Evaluating Historical Stratigraphy and Assessing the Conservation Status of Defensive Structures Heritage: Preliminary Results from the Military Buildings at San Filippo Bastion, Cagliari, Italy. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020. ICCSA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58820-5_68

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