Santa Maria di Collemaggio Church (L'Aquila, Italy): Historical reconstruction by non-destructive testing techniques

International Journal of Architectural Heritage

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 367-390

  Sfarra, Stefano ^a   Bendada, Abdelhakim ^b   Ibarra Castanedo, Clemente ^a   Ambrosini, Dario ^a   Paoletti, Domenica ^a   Maldague, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active infrared thermography; Church; Coin tap test; Earthquake; Electronic speckle pattern interferometry; Fresco; Near infrared reflectography; Raking light; Segmentation algorithms; Speckle decorrelation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; INTERFEROMETRY; RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS; SPECKLE; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

ACTIVE INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC SPECKLE PATTERN INTERFEROMETRY; FRESCO; NEAR INFRARED; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SPECKLE DECORRELATION;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 84926376551     PISSN: 15583058     EISSN: 15583066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15583058.2013.794376     Document Type: Review

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