Multiscale integrated application of geomatic techniques for Cultural Heritage documentation

Preservation and study of Cultural Heritage require today a scientific approach for documentation, surveying and monitoring of single objects, structures, sites and territory. Each of these tasks can receive a significant improvement by the adoption of current techniques and instruments from the disciplines of Geomatics. An appropriate choice of these methods would not only produce better results in terms of precision and accuracy or in terms of a greater productivity, but can be considered in general as an overall increase in the quality and value of the products generated. The purpose of the paper is to point out some characteristics to be considered for the use of geomatic techniques, with the aim to stressing the possibilities of multidisciplinarity, integration and multiscale approaches allowed by modern digital technologies. Some examples are briefly presented. (Two colour plates at the end of the volume)