Geocart partner of the project "BARI MATERA 5G"

May 25, 2018

Today, in Matera and Bari, the experimentation about Digital Tourism & Virtual Reality has started, set up for the Bari Matera 5G Project, where Geocart and Digital Lighthouse companies took part as partners.

Bari Matera 5G is the project with which TIM, Fastweb and Huawei won the tender of the MISE for testing the new 5G technology in two cities with the collaboration of partners of excellence, including, precisely, the two companies from Basilicata.

The application of Turismo Digitale & Virtual Reality realized involves the virtual visit of some cave churches of Matera in a multiplayer context that, thanks to 5G network, allows you to "live" some of the main tourist attractions of the city through an immersive solution where participants of the two cities are united in a single virtual visit.

The solution offers the possibility to move freely in the foreseen areas, get close to the walls or objects available and manipulate them, thanks to the use of Virtual Reality viewers. The experience has been activated simultaneously in the two cities of Matera and Bari, through interactive ways that allow the visitor to meet and interact with other visitors physically located in places physically distant from the one in which it is located, as well as listen and follow the directions given by a real tour guide of the city.

With this experimentation, In which the two companies of Geocart Group participated, providing technologies and know-how in the sectors of remote sensing, computer graphics and augmented virtual reality, a further step is taken in the context of activities aimed at enhancement of cultural heritage and experimentation with an innovative tourism concept.

Specifically, It's possible to take a digital tour of some cave churches in Matera, in particular the Church of S. Nicola dei Greci, the site "Cripta del Peccato Originale", the Church of "S. Maria degli Angeli" and the Church of "Madonna delle Virtù".

IN MEMORY OF MAURIZIO LEGGERI

April 16, 2018

We wish to remember a great professional and, above all, a friend with whom we have developed many ambitious projects for over 15 years. It was exciting to work under the guide of one of the greatest Italian seismologists and engineers.

On April 13, 2018, we have lost a great man who, with his semplicity, his desire to share experiences and skills, his joy of living the job as a continuous challenge to be faced in a group, has taught many technicians and professionals the sense of responsibility and the importance of the role that belong to the figure of the engineer.

When in 2000s, Maurizio Leggeri assumed the role of technical director of Geocart, he was already one of the leading experts in earthquake engineering at an international level and co-founder of the National Department of Civil Protection.

Among the founders of CGIAM, Center of Integrated Geomorphology for the Mediterranean Area, he held the role of President from 1988 to 2012 and, subsequently, that of Honorary President.

After graduating in Civil Engineering in 1957, he specialized in Steel Construction, Geotechnics and Foundations, Seismic Analysis and Dynamics of Structures. The high level of his technical and scientific expertise led him to teach in several Italian and international universities including the University of California in Berkeley and the University of Missouri.

Maurizio Leggeri has designed, in collaboration with the INGV National Institute of Geophysics, the first seismometric network of the Basilicata region, covering between 1994 and 1995 the role of President of the Provincial Committee of Civil Protection and the position of external Assessor of the Province of Potenza, with responsibility for Urban Planning, Regional Planning, Soil Protection and Civil Protection.

The engineer has taught all those who have met him, as a person and as a professional, the love of knowledge and the courage to overcome obstacles. He has transmitted a principle that many people have made their own: we must study the environment in all its components to improve people's lives.

Maurizio Leggeri leaves an extraordinary legacy and his disappearance creates a void in who has had the opportunity to appreciate in him the intellectual strength, the scientific value, the love for freedom and moral tension.

Goodbye Maurizio.

New collaboration with the CTBTO

Jun 27, 2017

The collaboration between Geocart and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) continues with a new contract. The aim of the current contract is to design and develop a customized, flexible and modular software interface to facilitate the processing of airborne multispectral data. These data are acquired to survey for surface features that may indicate the detonation of an underground nuclear device.

Timely delivery of data products derived from airborne multispectral acquisition is fundamental to operations, hence the need for a well-defined workflow that ensures that all necessary steps have been completed and that data quality can be assured. Geocart has been tasked with developing this system in the form a user friendly software interface. The software has been designed by Geocart engineers to meet two major requirements: to facilitate workflow management of airborne data and to monitor the progress and implementation of data processing.

Geocart participated in the first CTBTO airborne multispectral field test in 2011 and since then has contributed to various events including experts meetings as well as designing and integrating the first operational CTBTO multispectral system.

Geocart as Gold Sponsor of TECHNOLOGYforALL 2016

Sept 30, 2016

Geocart is a Gold Sponsor of the third edition of the TECHNOLOGYforALL Forum, an event dedicated to the technologies applied to the territory, the environment, cultural heritage and smart cities, to be held in Rome from the 4th to the 6th of October 2016. p>

BIM and new methodologies in the field of civil engineering, virtual reality and the new models of cultural heritage fruition. These are the main contributions that Geocart, in collaboration with Digital Lighthouse, a group company specialized in the development of digital solutions, will bring to round-tables discussions and training courses provided during the event.

Here are the initiatives that will concern the company from close up:

October 4, 2016, from 2 p.m. - Villa of Maxentius between the second and third mile of the Via Appia Antica, Rome During the on-field workshop, visitors can get to know the integrated methodology of survey with laser scanner and photo cameras applied by company technicians to an area of the Circus of Maxentius and the remains of the Tower of Carceres. The data will then be processed in order to create a product for virtual navigation with immersive viewers. p>

QUIRINALE 3D VR has been presented at the press conference on the new communication of the Quirinale. During the presentation, a practical demonstration of the software potentialities has taken place through workstations specially fitted out and equipped with Oculus Rift for immersive mode use.

October 5, 2016, 2.15 p.m. - Auditorium of the National Central Library of Rome The workshop "BIM in Civil Engineering supported by laser scanner and digital models animations" will be held in the course of the session entitled "3D models for infrastructures and BIM". During this workshop, Geocart will present the design and management integrated methodology, composed of a central core based on study and engineering of the technical solution in BIM optical. The latter incorporates a preliminary level based on the plano-altimetric characterization of the territory on which the works are inserted or on the survey of existing buildings and a final level linked to the graphic elaboration of the project through rendering, high-definition 3D animations and digital visual effects.

October 5, 2016, 12 p.m. – Meeting room BIS of National Central Library of Rome Ample space will be devoted to the presentation of models and innovative methods for the fruition of artistic and cultural heritage, starting from the integration of 3D survey methodologies with advanced sensors and data processing techniques. During the workshop "From survey to immersive virtual tour: new methods for cultural heritage fruition", Digital Lighthouse technicians will illustrate the result of the processing of the data acquired during the provided on-field workshop. In particular, they will show the digital reconstruction of the ruin of one of the towers of Carceres, a product destined to virtual navigation with immersive viewers. Visitors will be given the chance to browse the site in its current state and in its digitally reconstructed version.

The exhibition space (stand 4 - Gold area, in front of the National Central Library Auditorium) will offer visitors interesting additional opportunities to learn about the equipment used and the methodologies implemented by the company.

For further information, please visit the event’s website: www.technologyforall.it.