Il rilievo digitale del waterfront del centro storico di Taranto (Italia)

The contribution concerns the possibilities of utilization of the digital technologies focused on the documentation of the historical centers in the mediterranean area. The aim of this project is the evaluation of the Heritage conservation status and the possibilities and opportunities of enhancement and upgrading of historical urban centers through diagnostic opportunities offered by contemporary digital survey methods. In this occasion there is the presentation of the partial results of a case of studies analyzed through several typologies of equipment (static and mobile laser scanner, S.f.M. photogrammetry) and which gave significant results such as high reliable 3D models, orthophoto for the decay mapping, analysis of the stability of the buildings. The case selected in the Mediterranean area shows the quality of the results, especially in relation to the possibility of recovering ancient human settlements intended to abandon and decay but nowadays still full of important aspects concerning the local economy, structural stability and the inhabitants safety in the historical town centers.