IMAGE PROCESSING FOR PHYSICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (IPPES): Specific research activities 

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.

 

Leader: Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico Torino, Assistant Professor Position at Politecnico di Torino. List  of Publications at https://sites.google.com/site/ameliacarolinasparavigna/

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 Peru, 10/14/2010, NBC NEWS, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39673084/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/possible-geoglyphs-spotted-peru/

Massive geoglyphs discovered near Titicaca, The Toronto Star, Published on Mon Oct 18 2010, http://www.thestar.com/life/2010/10/18/massive_geoglyphs_discovered_near_titicaca.html

Die Bodenbilder der Pukara, Spektrum.de, 19.10.2010, http://www.spektrum.de/alias/peru/die-bodenbilder-der-pukara/1052030

Visible Only From Above, Mystifying 'Nazca Lines' Discovered in Mideast, Livescience, 14 Sept, 2011, http://www.livescience.com/16046-nazca-lines-wheels-google-earth.html

Egyptian tomb mystery may be world's first protractor, NewScientist, 29 July 2011, http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20748-egyptian-tomb-mystery-may-be-worlds-first-protractor.html#.Ui1uKzi0NCw

Sir Isaac Newton's life rendered as KML, Italian boffins suggest “georeferenced” lives of notable people, The Register, 26th March 2012, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/26/sir_isaac_newtown_kml/

Mysterious grid patterns in China's deserts explained, November 02, 2012, LiveScience http://www.livescience.com/24497-chinese-sand-patterns.html

Mysterious grid patterns in China's deserts explained, November 5, 2012, FOXNews, http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/05/mysterious-grid-patterns-in-china-deserts-explained/

Armchair archaeologist explains mysterious Chinese desert lines, Wired.co.uk, 30 October 2012, http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/30/mysterious-chinese-desert-lines

Strange Checkerboard Pattern Found in China’s Desert, 2 Nov, 2012, The Epoch Times, http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/science/strange-checkerboard-pattern-found-in-china-s-desert-310613.html

Mysterious patterns found in Chinese desert 'are result of geological surveys for nickel mines', 4 Nov 2012, Mail OnLine, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2227671/Mysterious-patterns-Chinese-desert-result-geological-surveys-nickel-mines.html

谷歌地图最新发现:中国境内沙漠中出现的奇异图, YEEYAN, http://article.yeeyan.org/compare/328730

 

On the MIT Technology Review:

New Desert Crater Found Using Google Maps and Free Software

10 August, 2010, http://www.technologyreview.com/view/420182/new-desert-crater-found-using-google-maps-and-free-software/

How Free Software Revealed Self-Portrait of Young Leonardo

23 November 2011, http://www.technologyreview.com/view/426186/how-free-software-revealed-self-portrait-of-young-leonardo/

The Amazing Steam Engines Of The First Century

20 January, 2011, http://www.technologyreview.com/view/422467/the-amazing-steam-engines-of-the-first-century/

The Puzzle Of The 13 Solar Towers of Chankillo

21 August 2012, http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428951/the-puzzle-of-the-13-solar-towers-of-chankillo/

Google Earth Finds More Strange Patterns in the Chinese Desert

29 October 2012, http://www.technologyreview.com/view/506471/google-earth-finds-more-strange-patterns-in-the-chinese-desert/

 

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/

 

Personal interests.

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 Syrian Desert (satellite imagery). Desert kites and stone circles!


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

  • General Physics and Mathematics,
  • Optics, Quantum optics,
  • Software, Image Processing
  • AstroFracTool.

Roberto Marazzato is founder and member of the board of: the

Società accademica per la matematica e la fisicaBolzano, Akademische Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Physik -Bozen
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