CittAumentata vs BOBeetles

Ricostruire in realtà aumentata i monumenti di una cittá di età romana, medievale, farnesiana e borbonica per farli tornare a vivere attraverso un’app per smartphone è l’obiettivo di CittAumentata. Quest'app introduce un’innovazione nella fruizione turistica dei beni culturali, artistici e archeologici: la visita delle città si trasforma nell’immersione in una macchina del tempo. Tante ore di lavoro di ricerca storico-archivistica e per acquisire i dati topografici e fotogrammetrici necessari alla fase di modellazione 3D degli antichi edifici. Con una semplice inquadratura della fotocamera, appariranno sullo schermo le ricostruzioni in 3D degli antichi monumenti insieme a contenuti di approfondimento, regalando al turista la possibilità di osservarli come se fossero reali. Un'app che risponde al desiderio di chi vuole tornare a vedere una città che non esiste più e supporta i professionisti che lavorano alla valorizzazione turistica del patrimonio culturale italiano.

Have you ever seen two stag beetles fighting? Are you interested in insect behavior? Are you curious about nature and insect life? Then this app is made for you!  Come join us in the first behavioural study on protected insects in Europe! You will get to observe beautiful big beetles in natural areas, reporting their activities! Don’t worry, you don’t have to be an expert to do so, we will guide you through the process, providing all necessary information on the app and on the linked website, and you will soon become a BOB App volunteer! The project has three targets, all very easy to recognize on the field (they are flagship species!): we are talking about the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus), the rosalia longicorn (Rosalia alpina), and the funereal longhorn beetle (Morimus asper). These three beetles have two main things in common: they are all protected under the European Habitats Directive and they all rely on dead wood as a source during the larval stages for their development (known as ‘saproxylic’). Observations are really easy to perform: once you find one of the project targets, observe it for 5 min and fill in the requested information on the app. Ta-da, you contributed to our project! If you are not sure about the beetle species you are looking at, don’t worry, you can still contribute to the project by uploading pictures and describing what you see: our expert will take care of the rest. Get to know more about beetles, especially protected ones: download the BOB App! The BOB App is running on the SPOTTERON Citizen Science Platform at www.spotteron.net.