International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXII, Part 6. Bandung-lndonesia 1999 
GIS TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT SURVEY DATA AND MANAGEMENT 
OF DIFFERENT QUARRY TYPOLOGIES 
Carlo MONTI 
Full Professor, DIIAR Director 
E-mail : direz@idra5. iar polimi. it 
Raffaella BRUMANA 
Researcher 
E-mail: brumanar@ idra5.iar.polimi.it 
Luigi FREGONESE 
3" d year Course of Doctorate 
E-mail : fregol@idra5. iar. polimi. it 
DEAR Dipartimento di Ingegneria Idraulica Ambientale e del Rilevamento - Sezione Rilevamento 
Politecnico di Milano 
P.za Leonardo da Vinci 32 - 20133 Milano 
ITALY 
Giorgio Vassena 
Researcher 
E-mail : vassena@bsmg. ing. unibs. it 
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile 
Unversita' degli Studi di Brescia 
Via Branze, 38 - 25123 Brescia (BS) 
ITALY 
Commission VI, Working Group VI/3 
KEY WORD : Survey, Quarries, Computation of volume, GIS Management. 
ABSTRACT 
This paper describes the study realized by the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Idraulica Ambientale e del Rilevamento of the 
Politecnico di Milano in order to define the most suitable procedures to carry out the survey and the calculation of the volume of 
the quarries. 
In the first step of the research it has been set up the theoretic aspects of the problem and it has been focused the methodology, as 
explained in the paper . 
In the second step it has been built up the application and experimental phase: due to this aim it has been chosen three typologies 
of quarries. Particularly it has been decided to work on one open quarry, on one quarry at the ground water table at the stratum 
superficial and on one quarry with mixed and different characteristics. These three samples don’t exhaust the whole of the possible 
case studio but define a generalisation to which all the surveys of a quarry can be traced back. 
Particularly it is here related the different surveys phases, from the realization of the network to the survey of the detail, using 
advanced instruments and technology. The reliability of the output of the survey is the condition to obtain to support the valuation 
of the volumes and the analysis of the variation in the time in function of the subsequent surveys at the different temporal phases. 
A standard and appropriate methodology can become an agile real time instrument for the advancing of the extractive activity: GIS 
technology could be used by both public administration and private subject to of the work organization and of control in the time. 
THE RESEARCH 
The research here related is the result of a collaboration 
contract between the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Idraulica 
Ambientale e del Rilevamento of the Politecnico di Milano and 
the Local Government of the Provincia of Milano in order to 
define the most suitable procedures to carry out the survey, the 
calculation of the volume of the quarries located in the territory 
of the Provincia and the GIS data management to support the 
control in the time of the area of extraction. For this matter 
three sample quarries has been chosen in order to allow to 
focus and solve the different problems that can be met during 
the work. 
The quarries cover different areas (from 15 hectares to 35 
hectares). The procedures here tested and suggested could 
become a protocol of management of all the quarries in the 
Lombardia Region (about one hundred).