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The eruptive history of a volcano can be investigated by analyzing the changes of its topography through time. This type of analysis can be a useful support to improve studies aimed at volcanic hazard assessment for very densely populated active or quiescent volcanic zones as the Somma-Vesuvio (SV) area. For the first time, in this work the morphological evolution of the SV volcanic edifice from 1876 to nowadays is presented through the reconstruction of topographies obtained from IGM (Italian Geographic Military Institute) historical maps (1876, 1906 and 1929) and remote sensing techniques (e.g. LiDAR). In detail, the multi-temporal morphological analysis has been focused on the Gran Cono area. The main working environment has been the ESRI platform (ArcGIS 10®), but other specific software have been involved to manage the geo-referencing procedures and conversion data (TN-Sharc, IGM-Traspunto/Cartlab). Morphological analyses and volume changes quantification related to the summit portion of the SV edifice from 1876 to nowadays are presented. The morphometric analyses were obtained by using height profiles along the four main direction (N-S, W-E, NW-SE and NE-SW), the changes in volume were estimated elaborating each Digital Elevation Model (DEM) in the area of interest.
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Dr. Marco Bocci from Istituto Geografico Militare (IGM) is greatly acknowledged for kindly allowing the consultation of the IGM archive for the retrivement of historical maps for the Somma-Vesuvio area. We warmly thank R. Mari from “Città Metropolitana di Napoli – Direzione Strutturazione e Pianificazione dei servizi Pubblici di interesse generale di Ambito Metropolitano – Ufficio S.I.T. – Sistema Informativo Territoriale” for kindly providing LiDAR data for DEM implementation. This work was also partly funded by the French government IDEX-ISITE initiative 16-IDEX-0001 (CAP 20-25).
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Bisson, M., Tadini, A., Gianardi, R., Angioletti, A. (2020). Morphological Evolution of Somma-Vesuvio During the Last Century: Integration Between Historical Maps and Airborne LiDAR Survey. In: Parente, C., Troisi, S., Vettore, A. (eds) R3 in Geomatics: Research, Results and Review. R3GEO 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1246. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62800-0_24
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