The availability of digital copies of historical artifacts modeling the territory through the so-called “plan-reliefs” is important for many reasons: the preservation of the artifact if the physical object is damaged or destroyed, the possibility of creating virtual showrooms and providing researchers a tool to study the object combining information from different sources. For these reasons, a set of plan-reliefs created during World War I on the Italian front and kept by the Italian Historical War Museum of Rovereto (Italy) was surveyed to create digital models of the surfaces, which were georeferenced in the ETRS89 datum. A set of historical military maps of the same period was georeferenced to overlay the sets to the surface in the digital representation and to try to infer clues about the cartographic sources used in the historical artifact creation. The best transformation for georeferencing the maps is different depending on the map scale, map origin, conservation status and number of Ground Control Points. The georeferencing process precision and accuracy were evaluated. The digital models created in this study were compared to the official Digital Terrain Model (DTM) provided by the Regions or the autonomous provinces. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the approach, and the combination of the models with the georeferenced maps is used by historians to describe the process used in the creation of plan-reliefs.

Accuracy Evaluation for Plan-Reliefs and Historical Maps Created during WWI in Northern Italy / Bozzano, Matteo; Sguerso, Domenico; Zatelli, Paolo; Zendri, Davide; Besana, Angelo. - In: ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION. - ISSN 2220-9964. - ELETTRONICO. - 2024, 13:3(2024), pp. 10101-10116. [10.3390/ijgi13030101]

Accuracy Evaluation for Plan-Reliefs and Historical Maps Created during WWI in Northern Italy

Bozzano, Matteo
Primo
;
Sguerso, Domenico
Secondo
;
Zatelli, Paolo
;
Besana, Angelo
Ultimo
2024-01-01

Abstract

The availability of digital copies of historical artifacts modeling the territory through the so-called “plan-reliefs” is important for many reasons: the preservation of the artifact if the physical object is damaged or destroyed, the possibility of creating virtual showrooms and providing researchers a tool to study the object combining information from different sources. For these reasons, a set of plan-reliefs created during World War I on the Italian front and kept by the Italian Historical War Museum of Rovereto (Italy) was surveyed to create digital models of the surfaces, which were georeferenced in the ETRS89 datum. A set of historical military maps of the same period was georeferenced to overlay the sets to the surface in the digital representation and to try to infer clues about the cartographic sources used in the historical artifact creation. The best transformation for georeferencing the maps is different depending on the map scale, map origin, conservation status and number of Ground Control Points. The georeferencing process precision and accuracy were evaluated. The digital models created in this study were compared to the official Digital Terrain Model (DTM) provided by the Regions or the autonomous provinces. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the approach, and the combination of the models with the georeferenced maps is used by historians to describe the process used in the creation of plan-reliefs.
2024
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Bozzano, Matteo; Sguerso, Domenico; Zatelli, Paolo; Zendri, Davide; Besana, Angelo
Accuracy Evaluation for Plan-Reliefs and Historical Maps Created during WWI in Northern Italy / Bozzano, Matteo; Sguerso, Domenico; Zatelli, Paolo; Zendri, Davide; Besana, Angelo. - In: ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION. - ISSN 2220-9964. - ELETTRONICO. - 2024, 13:3(2024), pp. 10101-10116. [10.3390/ijgi13030101]
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