International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 
XVIII ISPRS Congress Vienna, 9-19 July 1996 
Territory Defence is not for a Few: The "StereoFot" Programme 
Pietro Grimaldi 
Fondazione Italiana Fotogrammetria Architettonica 
StereoFot BBS: +39.(0)80.5246041 
Laboratorio di Fotogrammetria Architettonica - Politecnico di Bari 
Complesso di S.Scolastica - Via Venezia, 73 - 70122 BARI - ITALY 
Internet: http:/ /www.iqsnetit /fotogrammetria/vip.html 
Internet: http:/ /www.poliba.it/Dipartimenti /Disegno /fotarch.html 
KEY WORDS: Photogrametry, Architecture, Cartography, Cultural Heritage, Education, 
Training, Expert System, Stereoscopic. 
PURPOSE: 
The "StereoFot" project has been started by the "model aircraft section" of the Fondazione Italiana 
Fotogrammetria Architettonica, within the framework of the project "Fotogrammetria e Tutela del 
Territorio", at the end of the international meeting about “Ecclesiastic Cultural Estate, registration 
problems" held in Bari in 5-6-7 June 1991. 
The project consists in a didactic programme with which the "Fondazione Italiana Fotogrammetria 
Architettonica" and the "StereoFot BBS" are working towards the constitution of a "Cultural Estate 
Documentation Centre", opened to everybody, in the conviction that "territory defence is not for a few, it 
belongs to human dignity and so nobody can delegate it. 
It is important to teach it and to offer the adequate instruments". 
The project illustrates an "open multimedia card" for the documentation of Cultural Estate, with the aim 
of involving the students in the process of "census, documentation and catalogation of Cultural Estate". 
This multimedia card makes use of new technologies in the field of teaching methods. 
StereoFot represents the natural development of the experimental project carried out in Bari at the 
primary school “Balilla” in 1985-1986. 
The didactic check of “StereoFot” has been carried out within the Photogrammetric Course organized by 
Ce.I.P.E. ( Centro di Iniziativa e di Programmazione Educativa) in collaboration with the Fondazione 
Italiana Fotogrammetria Architettonica, with the scientific support of the Cattedra di Fotogrammetria 
Architettonica of the Politecnico, in Bari. 
"StereoFot" didactic programme and its applications are published on CD-ROM. 
What is "StereoFot"... 
Stereofot is an open multimedia card for the census instruments, signed on 15 january 1985 between the 
and the catalogation of Cultural Estate. Università degli Studi of Bari (cattedra di 
The programme has been developed by the Fotogrammetria Architettonica della Facoltà 
Cattedra di Fotogrammetria Architettonica — d'Ingegneria) and the Regione Puglia (department 
(teached by the prof.Antonia Daddabbo) of the Musei e Beni Culturali dell'Assessorato alla 
Politecnico in Bari in collaboration with the ^ Cultura) (picture 1). 
Fondazione Italiana Fotogrammetria The diffusion of "StereoFot" is in shareWare form. 
Architettonica within the framework of the The diffusion of "StereoFot" has the purpose of 
project "Fotogrammetria e Tutela del Territorio" ^ realizing the "International Centre of Digital 
alleged to the accord with the convention for the Photogrammetric Documentation”. 
common use of photogrammetric-electronic 
56 
International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXI, Part B6. Vienna 1996 
the 
the 
bas 
-thi 
Est 
Cul 
“co 
-the 
the 
insi 
ana 
stuc 
-the 
rea 
rep 
face 
pre 
-the 
car 
but 
sch 
-the 
cate 
rec 
(wr 
cine 
rep 
frec 
occi 
The 
wh 
Urb 
Cat 
cari 
dan 
Inr 
whi 
of c 
you 
At 
rep 
moi 
dell 
Pro 
Cur 
doc 
Est 
ph 
arcl 
for 
In 
tran 
Int 
alla 
doc 
con 
pho