Building reconstruction and urban analysis of historic centres with airborne photogrammetry

  1. Picon-Cabrera, Inmaculada 1
  2. Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Pablo 2
  3. Toschi, Isabella 3
  4. Remondino, Fabio 3
  5. González-Aguilera, Diego 1
  1. 1 University of Salamanca, Spain
  2. 2 University of León, Spain
  3. 3 3DOM research unit – Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy; nFrames GmbH, Germany
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Journal:
Informes de la construcción

ISSN: 0020-0883

Year of publication: 2021

Volume: 73

Issue: 562

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3989/IC.79082 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Historical city centers are complex scenarios to be reconstructed in 3D. Advances in automated 3D reconstruction are useful to apply urban analysis that otherwise will require a lot of human effort. In this paper, urban parameters are automatically derived to quantify the urban analysis in historical city centers. Particularly, an aerial photogrammetric flight is used as input data to reconstruct 3D models of buildings with metric capabilities. The results reveal that geometric information of buildings (heights, areas and volumes) and urban density attributes (building coverage ratio and floor area ratio) plays an essential role in the design, planning and management of historical cities. The approach developed was validated in the historical city center of Trento (Italy) using cadastral data and a mobile mapping system (MMS) as ground-truth.

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Authors would like to acknowledge Microgeo (Florenze, Italy) and Riegl (Vienna, Asutria) for the collection of the MMS data in Trento.

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