Abstract
The cross-disciplinary approach provided in this work has been applied on a case study located in the province of Alessandria, within the ‘cultural landscape’ of Lower Monferrato, (Piemonte, NW Italy). From a methodological point of view, a comparison was achieved between the native design of the garden (dated back to the end of the sixties) and the actual one, as it developed along the time. For that purpose, a UAV-based survey was operated to define the present situation. A true color orthomosaic and a Digital Surface Model were derived and used for the comparison that occurred in a GIS environment. A botanical and phytopathological field survey was coupled to the UAV acquisition and a cross-reading analysis with historical sources (maps) achieved. As extensively documented in this essay, the interpretative tools provided by Geomatics made possible to quantify and locate the differences affecting the realization of the project and qualifying the present situation in terms of botanic content and phytopathological features. Some concerns were also provided about the potentiality that vegetation offers in protecting the private garden from external looks through some visibility analyses. A GIS project was finally structured to host all the obtained information, making possible a more effective management of the garden and improving consciousness in its evolution, aiming at the generation of scenarios useful for supporting conservation, planning and management choices and preventing the cancellation of such a valuable heritage over time.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Salwa, M.: The Garden as a Performance. Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics. 51, 42–61 (2014)
Capdevila-Werning, R., Spaid, S.: What’s so authentic about restoration? Aesthetic Investigations (2019)
Brandi, C.: Theory of Restoration (trad. Cynthia Rockwell; rev. Dorothy Bell; cur. Giuseppe Basile). Firenze, Nardini (2005)
Accati, E., Bordone, R., Devecchi, M.: Il giardino storico nell’Astigiano e nel Monferrato (1999)
Scazzosi, L.: Rural landscape as heritage: reasons for and implications of principles concerning rural landscapes as heritage ICOMOS-IFLA 2017. Built Heritage 2, 39–52 (2018)
Borgogno Mondino, E., Fissore, V., Lessio, A., Motta, R.: Are the new gridded DSM/DTMs of the Piemonte Region (Italy) proper for forestry? a fast and simple approach for a posteriori metric assessment. iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry. 9, 901–909 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor1992-009
Barzaghi, R., Betti, B., Carrion, D., Gentile, G., Maseroli, R., Sacerdote, F.: Orthometric correction and normal heights for Italian levelling network: a case study. Applied Geomatics 6(1), 17–25 (2014)
Gullino, P., Pomatto, E., Gaino, W., Devecchi, M., Larcher, F.: New challenges for historic gardens’ restoration: a holistic approach for the royal park of moncalieri castle (turin metropolitan area, Italy). Sustainability 12, 10067 (2020)
Sicard, P., et al.: Should we see urban trees as effective solutions to reduce increasing ozone levels in cities? Environ. Pollut. 243, 163–176 (2018)
Battisti, L., Pomatto, E., Larcher, F.: Assessment and mapping green areas ecosystem services and socio-demographic characteristics in Turin neighborhoods (Italy). Forests 11, 25 (2019)
Isenburg, M.: LAStools-efficient tools for LiDAR processing (2012). http://www.cs. unc.edu/∼isenburg/lastools/ Accessed 9 Oct 2012
Brovelli, M.A., Crespi, M., Fratarcangeli, F., Giannone, F., Realini, E.: Accuracy assessment of high-resolution satellite imagery orientation by leave-one-out method. ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote. Sens. 63, 427–440 (2008)
Huang, H., Li, X., Chen, C.: Individual tree crown detection and delineation from very-high-resolution UAV images based on bias field and marker-controlled watershed segmentation algorithms. IEEE J. Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations Remote Sensing 11, 2253–2262 (2018)
Gillings, M., Wheatley, D.: GIS-based visibility analysis. In: Archaeological Spatial Analysis, pp. 313–332. Routledge (2020)
Rocchi, F., Quaroni, S., Sardi, P., Saracchi, M.: Studies on Anthostoma decipiens involved in Carpinus betulus decline. Journal of Plant Pathology. 637–644 (2010)
Saracchi, M., Rocchi, F., Quaroni, S.: Further Studies on the Etiological Agents of Carpinus Betulus Decline (2008)
Mexia, T., et al.: Ecosystem services: Urban parks under a magnifying glass. Environ. Res. 160, 469–478 (2018)
Nowak, D.J.: Understanding i-tree: summary of programs and methods. General Technical Report NRS-200. Madison, WI: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. pp. 1–100 (2020)
Nierhaus-Wunderwald, D., Forster, B.: Coleotteri corticicoli sui pini. Istituto federale di ricerca WSL (2000)
Goetcheus, C., Mitchell, N.: The Venice Charter and cultural landscapes: evolution of heritage concepts and conservation over time. Change Over Time. 4, 338–357 (2014)
Acknowledgement
The garden described was developed and cared for years by Renèe Poncet. The Authors are much thankful to Mme Poncet’s memory, as well as to her family.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Drusi, B. et al. (2022). Potential Contributions of Geomatics to Garden Design, Landscape Planning and Plant Disease Management. In: Borgogno-Mondino, E., Zamperlin, P. (eds) Geomatics for Green and Digital Transition. ASITA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1651. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17439-1_21
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17439-1_21
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-17438-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-17439-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)