Morphometric survey of medieval settlements/rilievo morfometrico degli insediamenti medievali

The Italian territory is harnessed by a dense network of medieval settlements of high landscape and architecture value, totally abandoned or abandonment, representing an important cultural and economic resource. Action to ensure the conservation and use of a historical heritage as complex presupposes adequate historical analysis and socio-cultural and as many knowledge of the complexity of landscape, urban, architectural and material stratified in time. The study presented has set to investigate this last appearance, identifying survey methods expeditious and low-cost that allow to act safely even in statically and morphologically unfavorable that characterize many of these centers, in order to close the observed lack of adequate documentation for the morphometric analysis of the settlements and their complexity. The site chosen for the experiment is Pietramelara, a medieval settlements of Campania, having the characteristics and the critical votes to search. Techniques were used to survey land and aerial (UAV) and open source software.