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Digital Twin and Federated Learning: Enhancing and Securing Critical Infrastructure

Niccolò DeCarlo — 2024-10-17

The article explores the integration of the Digital Twin concept with Federated Learning techniques for monitoring critical infrastructure. This approach allows for local data processing and knowledge transfer between different infrastructures,
minimizing the amount of data sent to the cloud. Benefits include enhanced data security, operational efficiency, and more proactive maintenance. Through practical examples, it demonstrates how these technologies can revolutionize the management of critical infrastructure.

Automatic Vectorization of Historical Maps

Elisa Farella — 2024-10-17

For the most diverse practical purposes and communication needs (from trade to conquests or exploratory voyages), man has always represented space through the production of maps. There are countless varieties of themes, styles and graphic languages, types of representation (pictorial maps, bird's eye views, cadastral and topographic maps) used throughout history to depict, in particular, the landscape and the urban fabric. The informative, historical, cultural and identity value of this cartographic heritage, now preserved in archives and institutions around the world, is inestimable. Due to the need to preserve its content from the ravages of time and to allow its "digital" use, an increasingly intense campaign of digitization of these sources has been launched in recent years (as has happened, for example, for other historical data, such as photographs and
books). The growing availability of digital historical maps and, at the same time, the notable progress in data processing and analysis, today offers new perspectives for the use and valorization of these resources. In the case, in particular, of ancient cartography, there are increasingly broader scenarios for accurate studies on the evolution and transformation of urban structures, to support careful urban planning policies or reconstruct historical scenarios (Farella et al., 2021).

Perugia's Digital Twin - An Innovative Model of Urban Governance

Velia Sartoretti — 2024-10-17

The Digital Twin of Perugia, an innovative model of urban governance.
The Municipality of Perugia adopts an innovative approach to respond to current urban challenges. The digital twin of the city is a cutting-edge solution for the transition of the city towards a digital, sustainable and participatory environment.

STAC, an open standard to describe and catalog geospatial data on the web

Giorgio Basile — 2024-10-17

The STAC is a recent geospatial standard that allows to describe and catalog geospatial assets. It is part of a broader
innovation effort called Cloud-Native Geospatial, providing modern standards and tools to efficiently access raster and
vector data in the cloud.

Convergence of technologies, divergence of knowledge

Fabrizio Bernardini — 2024-10-17

The convergence of meridian lines at the North Pole is a fitting metaphor for the convergence of technologies involved in the first success of the Transglobal Car Expedition, which reached the North Pole after a challenging journey across the frozen Arctic Sea, starting from the Canadian coast. The expedition is currently aiming to cross Africa, reach the South Pole and then return to
New York via South America.

THE FALERII NOVI PROJECT

Stephan Key — 2024-10-17

The Roman town of Falerii Novi sits 50km north of Rome on the ancient Via Amerina. According to historical sources, it was founded after the Roman conquest of the nearby Faliscan centre of Falerii Veteres in 241 BC (Polyb. 1.65; Liv. Epit. 20; Eutrop.
2.28; Oros. 4.11; Zon. 8.18).
The urban site appears to have persisted at least until the first half of the sixth century AD, with the bishopric of Aquaviva ascribed to the site in AD 465 (Duchesne, 1892).
A monastery and church of Santa Maria di Falleri were founded by Cistercians and first mentioned in documents of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, now forming the only standing structure on site other than the ancient circuit walls.

International Master's in Geodesy: Addressing Critical Skill Shortages in a Vital Field

Renzo Carlucci — 2024-10-17