Aerial photographs and topographical territorial analysis: some case studies in the Vestine area (Abruzzo)

Abruzzo Earthquake: April 6th , 2009". The Earthquake damage is still visible on the seismic crater area. The most of the old villages are abandoned. The majority of local population has been transferred into provisional little houses or in other part of the Region, as the coast, for example. Cultural Heritage evidences have been heavily damaged, as Ocre castle that partially melted along the rocks. Some other historical evidences, often not known, have been covered by provisional settlements or infrastructures, other cancelled by quarrying licenses given by the municipality because of lack of money. The landscape...has been chanced.