IMEKO International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Torino, Italy, October 19-21, 2 16 Multi-disciplinary approaches using non-invasive portable instruments to investigate cultural heritage sites and their surrounding area Sebastiano D(Amico 1, Raffaele Persico 2 1 Department of Geosciences, University of Malta,
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[email protected] Abstract The paper describes integrated geophysical and 6a 7erla Cross09 a 1atchto1er built by the Knights of investigations for investigating cultural heritage sites. St. :ohn in the XVII century and in the hold cemetery of In particular, we focus on data collected at several Santa Maria Church /8ir3ir3ara0, and the St. :ohn Co- locations in the Maltese Archipelago (central Cathedral /this results 1ill be not sho1ed in the present Mediterranean). The analysis consists in collecting paper0. The data 1ere mainly gathered during a short data with non-invasive portable instru ents. we were term scientific mission performed under the COST able to locate and deter ine fracture on cliff area as Action T-12 8 >Civil Engineering Applications of well as to locate graves and buried structures at the 2round Penetrating Radar?. The purpose of the measures investigate sites. In this paper, so e effects of has been t1ofold, namely to test the performances of an electro agnetic interferences on GPR data have been innovative 2PR system /Persico and Prisco, 2 80, studied. recently upgraded, and to perform 2PR and passive seismic analyses in several sites of interest in Malta, in I. I,TROD-CTIO, order to get an insight about the geological conditions in The opportunities offered by modern technology for the some sites of interest and about the internal status of safeguarding and fruition of cultural heritage are virtually some historical monuments.