Series: Guide Fotografiche aeree (Aerial Photography Guides)
Title: Islands of the Venetian Lagoon - Aerial Guide
Language: English
ISBN: 97888-89922-03-3
Format: 302x216 mm.
Pages: 136 Photographs 94
Package: Paperback with cardboard cover
Price: € 34.00
Volume: no. 1
Date of publication: April 2007

Description
This is the fourth book in the series "Guide fotografiche aeree" (Aerial Photography Guides).
The pictures were mainly taken from airplanes and helicopters.
This enables an overall view of the sites that is generally impossible with traditional photography from the ground.
Each picture is associated with a map derived from the Milva site which can be consulted at: http://www.istitutoveneto.it/venezia/milva/
The comment to each individual image is, instead, for the most part, drawn from web sites, creating a computerized anthology that provides more widespread consultation and greater user information.
The idea of conceiving this new type of territorial guide derives from the consideration that the tour guides currently available offer images which are not very meaningful in describing the sites. Likewise, books of photographs are a collection of images which are often truly splendid but which are not greatly related to the territory.
In brief, the book provides a geographic/photographic map with the most meaningful information and, thanks to the internet, in a form which allows for practically unlimited consultation.

Who it is designed for
Anyone interested in the territory or the tourist who is about to visit the area.

The authors
Arturo Colamussi Engineer, Freelance Professor at the Department of Engineering, University of Bologna, has long cooperated in the research and development of various solutions for protecting the historic centers of the Venetian Lagoon from high waters. A long-time flying enthusiast, he holds numerous aeronautical licences. For several years now he has made a great commitment to the production of a series of aerial photography guides based on an original concept.
The first work was "Il Delta del Po" on the Po River Delta, followed by "Molise" while, the more recent "Isole della Laguna di Venezia" on the Islands in the Venetian Lagoon is an homage to a beloved, long suffering territory.

Diego Tiozzo Netti, expert cartographer and specialist in geographic information systems lives and works in Ferrara. In 2003 he developed the MILVa project - Mappa Interattiva della Laguna di Venezia (Interactive Map of the Venetian Lagoon), hosted by the Environmental Databank of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Venice.