APPLIED SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
PROTECTION
Topic:
Image processing and satellite imagery analysis using fractional and
variational calculation. This research unit covers modelling methods for image
processing techniques based on variational and fractional approaches, which can
be used in applied physics and in environmental studies, where any human
interaction exists with the environment. In particular, the research unit is
investigating, through the image processing of satellite imagery, the impact of
ancient human activities on their local areas to create a built environment.
The image processing used in this investigation was developed during some
previous researches on the liquid crystal polarized light microscopy.
Participants: Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Roberto Marazzato (Adjunct Professor, Politecnico di Torino), Cesare Passerini (Politecnico di Torino), William Mepa Nouteza (Politecnico di Torino) and Giovanni Corazzi (Liceo Mariano Buratti, Viterbo).
On the
Press:
Asteroid Crater Hunting from Your Home, WIRED, 10 August 2010, http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/crater-hunting/
Scientist googles crater find, ABC, 16 August 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/08/16/2982419.htm
New crater in Sudan discovered
using Google Maps, August 16, 2010,
The Hindu, http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/new-crater-in-sudan-discovered-using-google-maps/article574245.ece
The geoglyphs of Titicaca, Archaeogate, 13-X-2010, http://www.archaeogate.org/classica/article/1305/1/
Possible Geoglyphs Spotted in Peru, Discovery Channel, http://porto.polito.it/2374703/3/Discovery_Channel_14_Ottober_2010.pdf
15 October 2010, and also DISCOVERY NEWS;
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/geoglyph-peru-andean.htm
Possible Geoglyphs Spotted in
Mysterious grid patterns in
ENERGY, ENVIROMENT; AND SAFETY ENGINEERING
Topic:
Thermal physics for energy and environmental applications. This research unit
is studying the thermal behaviour of some thermal models in periodic regimes.
The aim is to simulate the behaviour of small environments at the outermost
part of our planet, subjected to the periodic solar radiation. Lumped elements
or volumes are used to describe spatially distributed physical systems, through
a topology consisting of discrete entities. Energy storage systems are also
considered. - AC Sparavigna, Measuring the Thermal Diffusivity in a Student
Laboratory Engineering, 4(5) 266-271, 2012; Sparavigna A.C., S. Giurdanella, M. Patrucco,
Behaviour of Thermodynamic Models with Phase Change Materials under Periodic
Conditions, Energy and Power Engineering, 3(2), 2011, 150-157.
Leader:
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia,
Politecnico Torino.
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna. amelia.sparavigna@polito.it. General arguments of interest are as follows
List of selected publications. The list of all publications: in PORTO
POLITO .
Search "Sparavigna" InformaWorld. Search "Sparavigna" PROLA.
Preprints on Arxiv
List of thesis.
You can find my studies on ancient science and
image processing applied to arts and archaeology at the site: https://sites.google.com/site/archaeopapers/
Miei siti: Geoglyphs
(satellite imagery) , Merowe Dam
(satellite imagery) , La Cina del Neolitico
(Neolithic China) , il Dodecaedro
Romano (Roman Dodecahedron), Physics - Sparavigna , Not only Physics, AC Saparavigna - Torino
See also: https://sites.google.com/site/amarnasatelliteimagery/
on Amarna (satelite imagery), https://sites.google.com/site/saqqaradahshursatellite/ on Saqqara and Dahshur
(satellite imagery). You can also visit https://sites.google.com/site/syriandesertsatelliteimagery/
on the
Roberto Marazzato, Roberto.marazzato@polito.it. , web page http://staff.polito.it/roberto.marazzato/
Adjunct Professor
at Politecnico di Torino. General arguments of interest are as follows
Roberto Marazzato is founder and member of the board of: the
Società accademica
per la matematica e la fisica
–
http://www.math-phys-bz.org/index.php?pageid=1
Attending Early Music Courses at Arte Nova, Romano
Canavese, http://www.fondazioneartenova.org/default.htm