scholarly journals Digital survey: from new technology to everyday use, a knowledge path and challenge for scholars

Author(s):  
Giorgio Verdiani

Which is the meaning of researching and working in the field of the digital survey at the beginning of the XXIth century? Are the scholars and professionals planning procedures and strategies or just producing an enormous amount of digital data which destiny will be a colossal data loss? Starting from a reflection about “where we are” after 20 years of active digital survey for built heritage this article will try to trace some points about how to start and to plan digital survey intervention when the task is not merely professional and when the new survey bases are supposed to be used in a “liquid” context. From the massive machines and procedures of the XXth century, producing quite “light” amount of data, in the last two decades these tools passed to be lightweight in their hardware, while the amount of gathered data increased continuously, in what it seems an unstoppable process. But massive data gathering maybe it is not knowledge by itself and the information society, especially in its next evolutions, will need contents and versatile data to support and link our present to the heritage values. A specific reflection on the value of digital survey and procedures will be held here not in the pretention of finding a stable paradigm but in the will of stimulating the discussion in a field often tempted by simply technical solutions.

2000 ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
E. I. Rachkovskaya ◽  
S. S. Temirbekov ◽  
R. E. Sadvokasov

Capabilities of the remote sensing methods for making maps of actual and potential vegetation, and assessment of the extent of anthropogenic transformation of rangelands are presented in the paper. Study area is a large intermountain depression, which is under intensive agricultural use. Color photographs have been made by Aircraft camera Wild Heerburg RC-30 and multispectral scanner Daedalus (AMS) digital aerial data (6 bands, 3.5m resolution) have been used for analysis of distribution and assessment of the state of vegetation. Digital data were processed using specialized program ENVI 3.0. Main stages of the development of cartographic models have been described: initial processing of the aerial images and their visualization, preliminary pre-field interpretation (classification) of the images on the basis of unsupervised automated classification, field studies (geobotanical records and GPS measurements at the sites chosen at previous stage). Post-field stage had the following sub-stages: final geometric correction of the digital images, elaboration of the classification system for the main mapping subdivisions, final supervised automated classification on the basis of expert assessment. By systematizing clusters of the obtained classified image the cartographic models of the study area have been made. Application of the new technology of remote sensing allowed making qualitative and quantitative assessment of modern state of rangelands.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3682
Author(s):  
Renata Turisová ◽  
Hana Pačaiová ◽  
Zuzana Kotianová ◽  
Anna Nagyová ◽  
Michal Hovanec ◽  
...  

Maintenance management is connected with two opposing aspects, management costs and operational efficiency. With the implementation of new technology within the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) concept, new technical solutions are being created. These solutions (mainly robotic workplaces) must reach a maximum performance rate, production quality, and, of course, high availability. Their operation, during the whole life cycle, is expected to be absolutely safe with minimum maintenance costs. These trends, even though they seem to be optimistic, face a lot of problems. The conducted research follows up on the results of previous research aimed at the initial assessment Slovak industrial company readiness status for the I4.0 conception between 2017 and 2019. The aim of the ongoing research was to assess the readiness status in more than 70 industrial organizations in the selected area for the new concept of maintenance management (eMaintenance) and its relation to machinery integrated safety. The research was carried out by questioning, with the structure of individual questions and closed answers stemmed from the self-evaluation according to the new European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model (2020). The results of the research were presented to managements of questioned organizations and confirmed the assumptions about a low level of maintenance management transformation to eMaintenance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
OLGA FIOFANOVA ◽  

The article discusses a new technology in the field of administration – a method of data-based management. In the field of education, analytics is the necessary manager’s competence to fulfill his work duties. The author identified the problem of transforming legal norms when working with open data, which did not affect the change in institutional and cultural norms of “data- based management” in managerial decision-making practice. The article provides a comparative analysis of the professional standards’ requirements and educational programs for the managerial personnel’s professional development in the field of education. The author analyzed two aspects of the development of a data-based management system: personnel – the development of educational programs for training managerial specialists who can use such technology, and infrastructure – the development of digital open data services and digital data processing services for making managerial decisions. The tasks of developing education through the analysis of data for assessing its quality are reflected in the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On national goals and strategic objectives for the development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2024” and can be implemented based on the professional capital of managers using tools for analyzing such data. It is necessary to improve the interaction of electronic information exchange services for more effective information interaction and the construction of analytical reporting. This will allow for the efficient integration of data from different information systems and electronic resources and obtain the necessary data of the information of interest.


Author(s):  
María Teresa Broseta Palanca

ÍndiceIntroducción1 El catálogo urbanístico en Valencia   1.1 Catálogo de Bienes y Espacios Protegidos del PGOU de Valencia    1.2 Normas urbanísticas sobre protección de inmuebles catalogados         1.3 Contenido normativo del catálogo   1.4 Los niveles de protección frente a convenciones de intervención en patrimonio arquitectónico   1.5 Modificaciones del catálogo: la Cárcel Modelo y la Tabacalera2 La ampliación y revisión del catálogo   2.1 La ampliación del Catálogo con los Planes Parciales   2.2 El Catálogo BYEP de Planes Especiales y Planes Especiales de Reforma Interior   2.3 Catálogo BYEP de Palnes Especiales de Protección   2.4 La Revisión Simplificada del Plan General de Valencia. Catálogo Estructural de Bienes y Espacios Protegidos   2.5 La multiplicidad de catálogos en el Término Municipal de Valencia3 La Catalogación de los Planes Especiales de Protección   3.1 Planes de Acción Territorial y Catálogos de Paisaje   3.2 Catálogo de Bienes y Espacios Rurales Protegidos del Plan de Acción Territorial de Protección de la Huerta (PATH)   3.3 Intervenciones en la Huerta Protegida de Valencia: La Punta y La Torre4 La catalogación de los Planes Especiales de Protección   4.1 Planes Especiales de Protección de la ciudad de Valencia    4.2 Normativa Urbanística del PGOU de Valencia sobre Palnes Especiales de Protección   4.3 Propuesta de ordenación de los PEPRI del Conjunto Histórico de la ciudad de Valencia   4.4 La catalogación. Niveles de protección propuestos en los Planes   4.5 Conclusión: cuadro comparativo de los diferentes criterios de intervención sobre inmuebles catalogados en los PEPRIS valencianos5 Catalogación de entornos BIC. La duplicidad de catálogos   5.1 PE de Protección del entorno BIC de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia de Campanar   5.2 PE de Protección del entorno de los BIC: Puerta de los Serranos, Iglesia y Convento de Santo Domingo, Museo de Bellas Artes, Monasterio del Temple, Palacio de Justicia, Exconvento del Carmen e Iglesia de Santa Cruz y Palacio de los Condes de Cervellón6 Conclusiones7 BibliografíaResumenEl presente trabajo es una adaptación del capítulo cuarto de la tesis doctoral realizada por la autora donde se analiza el tratamiento del patrimonio urbano arquitectónico en el ámbito del urbanismo y se aportan propuestas para la mejora de la conservación y difusión de los valores patrimoniales, a través de la optimización de los medios de catalogación. Para ello se comprueba la vigencia de los instrumentos de protección del patrimonio arquitectónico y su aplicación en la planificación urbanística de la Comunidad Valenciana, tanto a escala territorial como en los ámbitos urbanos de la ciudad de Valencia y núcleos de menor población. Asimismo, se analizan las técnicas de registro y catalogación de inmuebles y la adaptación de las TICS a estas prácticas tradicionales, mediante un sistema “e-heritage” como plataforma digital de datos, que garantice la operatividad de la gestión, y la comunicación y difusión del patrimonio por las administraciones. Como contribución, se propone la actualización y digitalización del catálogo de la ciudad Valencia, exportable al resto de catálogos municipales, como herramienta básica en la gestión del patrimonio, en consecución de la primera fase hacia su conservación, el conocimiento de los valores que llevaron a su catalogación.Palabras clave:Catálogo urbano / Patrimonio arquitectónico / Planeamiento / Gestión urbanística / ValenciaAbstract:This work is the fourth chapter adaptation of author’s doctoral thesis, whose main purpose is the knowledge of the validity of heritage preservation tools in town planning and land development management, with the aim to get useful proposals to improve the preservation and dissemination of the heritage values. The document explains the traditional methods of registration and cataloguing and their adaptation to ICT by an e-heritage digital data system, as guarantee of effective heritage policy of preservation, communication and diffusion by public administration. In the same way, the study provides the relation between built heritage management and land use and development regulation of Comunidad Valenciana, either on large territory scale or on urban area of Valencia and underpopulated towns. Given the right study, it provides improvements in the method of heritage identification and designation, as well as progress in built heritage protection rules for Valencian historic towns; furthermore, it contributes to update and digitize the heritage city catalogue of Valencia, with a system exportable to other cities, as a basic tool in cultural heritage management, towards the better identification of the values which cause designation and preservation.Keywords: Urban catalogue / Built heritage / Town planning / Urban Development / Valencia 


Author(s):  
Milena Andrighetti ◽  
Giovanna Turvani ◽  
Giulia Santoro ◽  
Marco Vacca ◽  
Andrea Marchesin ◽  
...  

To live in the information society means to be surrounded by billions of electronic devices full of sensors that constantly acquire data. This enormous amount of data must be processed and classified. A solution commonly adopted is to send these data to server farms to be remotely elaborated. The drawback is a huge battery drain due to high amount of information that must be exchanged. To compensate this problem data must be processed locally, near the sensor itself. But this solution requires huge computational capabilities. While microprocessors, even mobile ones, nowadays have enough computational power, their performance are severely limited by the Memory Wall problem. Memories are too slow, so microprocessors cannot fetch enough data from them, greatly limiting their performance. A solution is the Processing-In-Memory (PIM) approach. New memories are designed that are able to elaborate data inside them eliminating the Memory Wall problem. In this work we present an example of such system, using as a case of study the Bitmap Indexing algorithm. Such algorithm is used to classify data coming from many sources in parallel. We propose an hardware accelerator designed around the Processing-In-Memory approach, that is capable of implementing this algorithm and that can also be reconfigured to do other tasks or to work as standard memory. The architecture has been synthesized using CMOS technology. The results that we have obtained highlights that, not only it is possible to process and classify huge amount of data locally, but also that it is possible to obtain this result with a very low power consumption.


Author(s):  
Luc Van Gool ◽  
Marc Pollefeys ◽  
Marc Proesmans ◽  
Alexey Zalesny

This chapter discusses the goals of the Murale project, an Information Society Technologies (IST) project, which is funded by the European Commission in order to advance the use of computer technology in the field of archaeology. The Murale project aims to offer solutions on the basis of photo-realistic modelling tools. The creation of the Murale project allowed archaeologists to solve old tasks with new means. This new technology has been applied to the Sagalassos site in the hopes of creating a convincing impression of how this Turkish province developed over the centuries. In this chapter, the focus is on the work carried out by three of the partners of the Murale: ETH Zurich, Eyetronics, and the University of Leuven. The results of their work predominantly pertain to 3D shape acquisition and image-based texture synthesis.


2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-282
Author(s):  
Ghada H. Fetais ◽  
Remah Gharib

Purpose This paper aims to explore the possibilities of economic diversification in the State of Qatar through the regeneration of built heritage post the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting sustainable tourism and creating a center for cultural heritage in Qatar, thereby enhancing the sense of identity both socially and physically among the nationals and residents. In light of the strategic goals of the Qatar National Vision 2030, which is to diversify Qatar’s economy and minimize its reliance on hydrocarbon industries, if these ambitious goals are to be achieved, there is a necessity to maintain the local cultural identity, demonstrated through architecture and urbanism. Design/methodology/approach This study is an exploratory research based on qualitative methods of data gathering and investigation. The local communities who used to live in the scattered old villages were approached with surveys. At the same time, semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals in the field in Qatar and other individuals from the public, depending on their literacy levels. Findings This paper examines how to revive those villages and improve their current economic level. Finally, the study proposes some recommendations for these abandoned villages in an attempt to rejuvenate their built heritage and revitalize their socioeconomic status. Originality/value Economic diversification needs to be engendered through the services and products of Qatari society; this is possible by exploiting current resources such as the built heritage or historic sites in areas outside the emerging metropolitan cities. This study reveals the great potential of regenerating the old villages of the Gulf States by establishing nonprofit organizations and increasing the economic benefit of the abandoned historic structures.


Author(s):  
Berit I. Helgheim ◽  
Rui Maia ◽  
Joao C. Ferreira ◽  
Ana Lucia Martins

Medicine is a knowledge area continuously experiencing changes. Every day, discoveries and procedures are tested with the goal of providing improved service and quality of life to patients. With the evolution of computer science, multiple areas experienced an increase in productivity with the implementation of new technical solutions. Medicine is no exception. Providing healthcare services in the future will involve the storage and manipulation of large volumes of data (big data) from medical records, requiring the integration of different data sources, for a multitude of purposes, such as prediction, prevention, personalization, participation, and becoming digital. Data integration and data sharing will be essential to achieve these goals. Our work focuses on the development of a framework process for the integration of data from different sources to increase its usability potential. We integrated data from an internal hospital database, external data, and also structured data resulting from natural language processing (NPL) applied to electronic medical records. An extract-transform and load (ETL) process was used to merge different data sources into a single one, allowing more effective use of these data and, eventually, contributing to more efficient use of the available resources.


2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 04002
Author(s):  
Nazira Dzhumagulova ◽  
Vladimir Smetanin ◽  
Nguyen Dinh Dap

One of the main problems in Russia is an acute shortage of free land for the disposal of solid domestic waste and sewage sludge. The treatment and removal of precipitation is a major problem in wastewater treatment. Urban sewage treatment plants were built on model projects in the 1970s, in which natural dehydration on silt areas was provided. Sludge dehydration on silt areas of sewage treatment plants of medium and high capacity is impossible due to the lack of free land areas. The major drawback of this method is the rejection of significant land areas, contamination of the geo-environment, the release of pollutants into the air, as well as the loss of land resources. In sludge processing and utilization, it is necessary to achieve minimum damage to the environment and to increase the possibility of using it on behalf of the national economy. The adoption of new technology and processing of sediments allowed to reduce the initial amount of precipitation by 4 times and to reduce the humidity from 97% to 83%, the amount of sludge formed at the treatment facilities will decrease by 6 times (from 300 m3/day to 50 m3/day) as a result of dehydration of the filter presses, the will be a reduction in the surface concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere from 5,4 tons per year to 2,9 tons per year.


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