The research activity initially concerned the knowledge of topographical and photogrammetric instrumentation and their applications in the architectural surveying sector. In the period from 1980 to 1988 she participated in several educational and refresher courses, particularly:
1981
She participated in a course for using the analogical plotter PLANITOP F3 Zeiss at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice.
1982
She participated in an architectural photogrammetry course at the company Wild in Milan.
1987
She participated in a training course on the use of Kern DSR stereo analytical plotters for terrestrial and aerial photogrammetry at Koh.I.Noor Hardtmuth s.p.a. in Milan.
1988
She participated in a course on photogrammetric systems and software applications at Galileo Siscam in Florence.
1995
She participated in a training course on the use of workstations dedicated to digital photogrammetry. The subjects concerned were: acquisition of images, treating them from a metric and radiometric viewpoint, representing them as a digital model of points and/or as orthoplane applied in both architectural and urban environments. The training course was held at Leica A.G.Unterentfelden in Switzerland on the digital station DWP 700.
Within the collaboration with the Photogrammetric laboratory of the University Institute of Architecture of Venice between 1980 and 1991 she was involved particularly in problems regarding photogrammetric surveying and graphical representation. Several monuments were studied, as indicated in the annexed surveying activity. The problems developed schematically concerned:
• the organisation of the photogrammetric survey campaigns;
• plotting with normal and inclined shots;
• graphical representation;
• numerical plotting and processing three-dimensional data.
1983
In collaboration with the Topographic, Photogrammetry and Geophysics institute of the Polytechnic of Milan, she performed topographic and photogrammetric surveys. Particularly to the reference grids for the very large scale map of Vigevano and after its plotting as well as other surveys also aimed at preserving Cultural Heritage.
1988 – 1989
She participated in research on the following subject: “Information systems for integrating the survey with technical operative projects and methodologies for the interventions on buildings of a monumental and historical-environmental character” promoted by the Ministry of Scientific and Technical Research of the Architecture Department of the University of Genoa and by the consortium of enterprises CORIRE. In this research she performed some sample surveys to determine a standard for architectural surveys with the integration of various methodologies and techniques.
1990
She collaborated with the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Udine in some photogrammetric survey campaigns of monuments in the old town centre of Udine and in establishing their graphic plotting by tackling problems concerned with the establishment of an information system for the architectural heritage.
Subsequently in the continuation of the research activity, she focussed on subjects regarding numerical representation of the territory and processing the territorial data.
1989
She participated in a refresher course on numerical representation and territorial data processing at the Architecture Department of the Polytechnic of Milan.
She participated in a specialisation course on the software Geodis-gx for the territorial data management on a cartographic basis at the offices of Automap in Rome.
1990
She began collaborating with the Interdepartmental Service Centre of Cartography “Nanni Valle” of the University Institute of Architecture of Venice to establish an information system on two monumental places in Venice: St. Mark’s Square and Rialto. Within this collaboration she used the Geodis-gx system and contributed to defining the project concerning the two areas which associated the historical cartography to the current cartography and particularly the cadastral cartography.
The research activity on data processing systems continued at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (EPFL), where she participated in some specialisation courses on methods of organising the data bases (object method, entity-relation method, etc.), on digital cartography and GIS, by means of practical exercises on some territorial information systems present in EPFL (System9 and INFOCAM).
1991
She collaborated with the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Udine to draw up technical cartography and a digital model of a hill alongside a railway line between the stations of Dogna and Chiusaforte in Friuli Venezia-Giulia.