Digital Heritage and Earthquake Emergency

This contribution expounds the operational plan structured to acquire digitally the data relative to the integrated survey activity in the municipalities of Brittoli, Bussi sul Tirino, Civitella Casanova, Cugnoli, Montebello di Bertona, Popoli and Ofena, that are set in the seismic crater of Abruzzo. The strong earthquake that on 6 April 2009 devastated the city of L'Aquila radiating in an area of about three thousand square kilometres and affecting, to various degrees, more than 57 municipalities in Abruzzo, provides an immediate idea on the extent of the damage, the analytical and planning difficulties related to various organizational stages of the reconstruction. The coordination of activities related to the different moments of emergency, the definition of a unified methodological framework for the management of operations, required multidisciplinary experts who were called to operate on the territory. This is where the dutiful commitment of the University of Abruzzo derives from, the research conducted in these years by the working group of Pescara at the places hit by the earthquake.