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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-W2-21-2013</article-id>
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<article-title>UAV APPLICATION IN POST &amp;ndash; SEISMIC ENVIRONMENT</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Baiocchi</surname>
<given-names>V.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dominici</surname>
<given-names>D.</given-names>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mormile</surname>
<given-names>M.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>DICEA &amp;ndash; Area Geodesia e Geomatica, &quot;Sapienza&quot; University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18-Zip, 00184 Roma, Italy,</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Dept. Arc. and City Planning, University of L&apos;Aquila, Via Gronchi 18, L&apos;Aquila, 67100, Italy</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>16</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2013</year>
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<volume>XL-1/W2</volume>
<fpage>21</fpage>
<lpage>25</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2013 V. Baiocchi et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
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<p>On April 6, 2009, an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck central Italy with its epicentre near L&apos;Aquila, at 42.3502° N, 13.3762° E. The
earthquake damaged 3000 to 11 000 buildings in the medieval city of L&apos;Aquila. Several buildings totally collapsed, 308 people were
killed. The post emergency phase till now is just at its beginning step. Conventional surveying techniques using high precision total
stations, GNSS receivers and laser scanners for investigations on damaged buildings are always becoming more automated, accurate
and operative and even much more fast. Even if these techniques represent instruments of extreme operability there are still many
evident limits on their use, especially regarding the survey of both the roofs and the facades of tall buildings or dangerous places,
typical on post earthquake situations. So using micro UAVs for surveying in such particular cases, many of these problems can be
easily bypassed. In fact, the present work aims on experimenting using multi-rotor micro UAVs, that will allow high quality image
capturing on roofs and facades of structures in the old city center of L&apos;Aquila. To obtain actual stereoscopic acquisitions of buildings
some conditions on the geometry of acquisition have to be observed, for this reason, taking as a guideline classic flight
photogrammetric, a flight planning software was developed. Accurate planning for UAVs acquisitions is very important also
considering the reduced autonomy of such vehicles. This can be a strategic point if we want to use UAVs for early damage
assessment and also for post event reconstruction planning.</p>
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