Cultural heritage around the globe suffers from wars, natural disasters and human negligence. The importance of cultural heritage documentation is well recognized and there is an increasing pressure to document our heritage both nationally and internationally. This has alerted international organizations to the need for issuing guidelines describing the standards for documentation. Charters, re...

Within the extensive plateau crossed by the upper Miño there are a vast number of tumuli. Their distribution is fairly homogeneous and they reach densities of up to 6 mounds per km 2. The grave goods recovered from some of these monuments bear little relation to those in the coastal areas, especially so by the later par! of the 3rd millenium BC. Recent surveys have found that some of the bigges...

The project “Georeferencing of Architectural Heritage” is part of a larger Regional Program of Development that provides the carrying out of the management aim “Achievement and optimization of the Informative System of Lombardia for the Risk Chart of Cultural Heritage”. The project aims to build, as pointed out in laws, the co-ordination of activities and specific competences that are necessary...

The biodegradation is a general action strictly linked in the presence of active organisms, and this is not only unavoidable but it represents a fundamental process of the Biosphere. When this process is acting on « valuable » objects, is named as Biodeterioration. The consequences surely produce a worse condition, and this process is particularly unfavourable when the object belongs to the Cul...

What is believed to be the first fluorescence imaging of the facades of a historical building, which was accomplished with a scanning fluorescence lidar system, is reported. The mobile system was placed at a distance of ~60 m from the medieval Lund Cathedral (Sweden), and a 355-nm pulsed laser beam was swept over the stone facades row by row while spectrally resolved fluorescence signals of eac...

Several measurements of vertical ground motion at Pition Flat Observatory, California, indicate the overall weakness and instability of the Earth's weathered surface with respect to the underlying rock. Cumulative long-period motions of order 0.5 mm per year dominate these records, though smaller elastic deformations caused by precipitation loading, atmospheric loading, and tidal strains are ev...