Investigations of non-visible features in archaeological sites: testing aerial remote sensing with UAV in Pompeii

Valentina Santoro is a PhD student in Architectural Heritage at Politecnico di Torino and collaborates with the Geomatics for Cultural Heritage Laboratory (G4CH Lab). She holds an MSc in Architecture for Sustainable Design (2022). Her research focuses on advanced 3D survey methods, with expertise in GIS, spatial analysis, and the integration of UAV-based optical, thermal, and multispectral data for built and landscape heritage documentation, monitoring and non-invasive diagnostic.

Zhiguo Wu is a MS in Architecture for Sustainability at Politecnico di Torino (2025) and Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Geomatics for Cultural Heritage (G4CH lab) with research interests in digital photogrammetry, LiDAR scanning, GIS analysis and artificial intelligence in geomatics field.

Giacomo Patrucco is PhD in Geomatics (2023). Since 2017 he has collaborated with the G4CH Lab (Politecnico di Torino) on several research projects. He joined documentation missions in Oman, Turkmenistan, Bahrain, Iraq, England, Mongolia, Kurdistan, Turkey and Ethiopia. His research focuses on geomatic techniques for heritage documentation, semantic segmentation with deep learning, multispectral 3D data fusion, and archaeological site recording through 3D sensing and non-visible imagery.

Antonia Spanò is Full Professor of Geomatics and scientific coordinator of the Geomatics Laboratory for Cultural Heritage (G4CH lab) at Politecnico di Torino. Her research focuses on geospatial information applied to the built heritage, with numerous studies dedicated to archaeological heritage. Her research activities address advanced methods (optical and multispectral imagery) for 3D surveys and digital applications for harmonising spatial data within GIS for landscape and cultural heritage.