From Reality-Based Model to Gis Platform. Multi-Scalar Modeling for Irrigated Landscape Management in the Pavia Plain

Abstract

Abstract. This research aims to define a low-cost replicable methodology for obtaining fast multiscale information models. The experiments carried out were conducted by researchers from Dada LAB and PLAY experimental Laboratories of the University of Pavia, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, on the case study of the irrigated landscape of the Pavia plain. The entire work process was developed according to a low-cost purpose, starting from fast acquisition activities with UAV instruments, to the processing of photogrammetric data, urban and detailed scale modelling with open-source software, to the census, filing, and computerisation of the model. The resulting product is configured as a multiscale reality-based information system. A census card is associated with each constituent element of the model (crops, canals, valuable hydraulic artefacts). Connection to the GIS platform allows the user to query the model. The result is a digital system oriented to facilitate the management of the agricultural and irrigation landscape, and to digitally document and preserve the heritage of historical hydraulic existing artefacts. Two different GIS platforms for structuring the information system were tested. The first involved a high-budget solution using ESRI ArcGIS Pro/ArcSCENE software, and the second involved using QGIS software, an Open-Source Geographic Information System, to develop an accessible information system without license fees, to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of low-cost processes.

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“…(Liberotti and Gusella, 2023;Urbanowicz and Nyka, 2012). Numerous studies on Digital Databases and Information Systems have shown how digital practice can offer a common platform to integrate this different sectoral knowledge and to set a common basis of technical language and integrated 2D/3D products (Doria et al, 2022;Galasso et al,2021). Digital Environments and Virtual Spaces were developed and are gradually being improved, producing increasingly realistic reproduction of contents from the object to the urban scale.…”