Geomatica e Multimedia per la documentazione del Patrimonio paesaggistico e culturale: nuove tecnologie integrate per il miglioramento dei processi di rilevamento, gestione e diffusione delle conoscenze tramite Web. Il ruolo delle immagini e della rappresentazione.

Modern solutions today available in Geomatics and Information Technology offer great potential in the field of cultural heritage and landscape documenation in every step of recording, visualization, dissemination and communication. In this way the research aims to examine issues related to the integrated application of these technologies to improve knowledge on cultural heritage and landscape and the dissemination through web. The first part explores the themes of landscape and his representation, defining the theoretical principles of the study. Two cases are presented based on the experience gained during the PhD: The first one was carried out at the laboratories of CGT (Centro di Geotecnologie - University of Siena) within the project 'Portale dei Geopaesaggi della Regione Toscana', a scientific cooperation with Regione Toscana and Consorzio LaMMa. The project involves the integrated application of new technologies for the development of a Geographic Information System and a related web portal. In particular are discussed methodologies for landscape documentation such as digital photography to create virtual immersive panoramas and programming application to create a dedicated web site. The second one was carried out during a staying at GIFLE, Photogrammetry & Laser Scanning Research Group. It presents the use of a terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) as a valuable tool for 3D documentation of large outdoor cultural heritage sculptures such as the ones existing in the open-air museum, ‘Museo al Aire Libre’, inside the Campus de Vera of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Both case followed the same methodological approach from the object's registration, with a special attention for data quality and reliability, through the representation and visualization to promote the latter stages of communication and public dissemination through the web optimizing the cultural flow and knowledge of the landscape.