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Towards Structural Monitoring and 3D Documentation of Architectural Heritage Using UAV

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This paper describes how Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) may support the architectural heritage preservation and dissemination. In detail, this work deals with the long-term monitoring of the crack pattern of historic structures, and with the reconstruction of interactive 3D scene in order to provide both the scholar and the general public with a simple and engaging tool to analyze or visit the historic structure.

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    https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/buy/jetson-tx1.

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This work is being carried out in the framework of the Tuscany Regional Project MOSCARDO (FAR-FAS 2014). The Jetson TX1 embedded processor used for this research was donated by the NVIDIA Corporation.

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Germanese, D., Leone, G.R., Moroni, D., Pascali, M.A., Tampucci, M. (2019). Towards Structural Monitoring and 3D Documentation of Architectural Heritage Using UAV. In: Choroś, K., Kopel, M., Kukla, E., Siemiński, A. (eds) Multimedia and Network Information Systems. MISSI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 833. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98678-4_34

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