One of the most important products of this area is the well-known Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. Many warehouses, where the cheese is usually stored for the aging process, were damaged and lots of valuable wheels of cheese remained inside them.
Men belonging to the rescue teams tried to recover the cheese in these almost collapsed warehouses, but the operations were very dangerous, especially because new earthquake waves could occur. To help, the VisLab Laboratory of the University of Parma applied its 15 years of experience in the application of artificial vision to vehicles of many types.
