Vassallo N.(2); Cadoni M. (1); Chimienti A. (1); Nerino R. (1); Pettiti G. (1); Spertino M. (1), 2007, Acquisizione e riproduzione fedele della carta napoleonica del Moncenisio mediante il sistema di visione attiva SVA, Atti della 11a Conferenza Nazionale ASITA, Torino, 2007,
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In this work the implementation of the active vision system SVA (Balsamo et al., 2007) is presented, for the acquisition and the faithful reproduction of the Napoleonic map of Moncenisio. Due to its historic relevance and information contents, the map is described in a companion paper (Vassallo 2007). In our article the image digitalization process of this historical map has been described. This operation was not trivial since the aim of the project is to obtain a digital copy of the map without geometric distortions and with precise colorimetric information. Moreover, the aim is to produce a final digital image at very high resolution so that also small details are captured (e.g. thin lines). The availability of a reliable copy of this Napoleonic map offers several opportunity of exploitation_ historical cartography and the history of cartographic techniques, cultural heritage preservation and fruition being the most obvious. The paper describes the adopted procedures and the difficulties (resolution, working space and its accessibility, illumination problems) met in this work and examines the possible commercial alternatives. In the end, the performance of this techniques are evaluated by comparing the acquired map with the original one.

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