Geomatics for structural assessment and surface diagnostic of CH

The capacity to rapidly acquire large quantities of spatial data, to geo-reference information on them, to obtain detailed models that allow more and more accurate analyses and simulations, place Geoinformatics at the center of attention in many research areas. Among these, the use of these techniques for the study of existing structures is particularly interesting. Assessing the current stability of a building, monitoring the evolution over time of a failure, preventing the potential causes of damage, simulating the behavior of a building under seismic actions, are just some of the ways in which the geometric properties of a structure, acquired with the most up-to-date automated surveying systems, are used to help validate structural integrity analyses