Preserving Our Nation’s Space History Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning: Lessons from Cape...

DRS. LORI COLLINS AND TRAVIS DOERING, CO-DIRECTORS

ALLIANCE FOR INTEGRATED SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES

SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

THOMAS PENDERS, CULTURAL RESOURCES MANAGER

45TH SPACE WING, CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION (CCAFS), PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE

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PRESERVING OUR NATION’S SPACE HISTORY USING TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING

Who we are and what we do:

• We are a Center at the University of South Florida, working to preserve and

protect the world’s cultural and natural heritage through education and global

engagement.

• Our goal is to create interdisciplinary approaches to research and curriculum

using 3D technologies, visualization, and other spatial documentation

methodologies.

• Heritage studies are the core of our research and educational mission

Teaching & Curriculum

DevelopmentResearch Training/Outreach

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ESSENTIAL AIMS OF SURVEY

HERITAGE PRESERVATION PROJECTS

INTEGRATED APPROACHES

• “To record, to be accurate and precise, and to be

representative”

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A GLOBAL LEARNING SHOWCASE FOR TECHNOLOGY

Altar 4, La Venta Park,

Tabasco, Mexico

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HERITAGE AT RISK

Historic Image- 1972 Image - 2010

Takalik Abaj, Monument 14,

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DIMINISHING VISIBILITY

INCREASING AND IMPROVING VISIBILITY

INCREASING AND IMPROVING VISIBILITY

• Teaching and learning is improved through immersiveand innovative means with direct impacts on student achievement

• A study of schools in Europe found that the impact of 3D in the classroom improves test results by an average of 17% and that 3D tools help students concentrate more in the classroom.

3D PROJECTS BACK TO THE CLASSROOM

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CAPTURE COMPUTECREATE

Technologies can allow us to record, analyze, interpret and share in new and

innovative ways (also more accurate and representative)

Increasing our global capacity for collaboration

Portable, accessible, rapid

New technologies allow us to see, engage, and share in real time

BYOD (Bring your own device) – smart phones and tablets

Wearable computers

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STUDENTS LEARN AND ENGAGE WITH METHODS FOR THE FUTURE

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Interactive 3D Teaching Lab

Advanced Visualization Lab

Virtual Reality &

Simulation

3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping Lab

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The sites of some of America’s proudest

moments and historical achievements are

eroding and rusting away…

Launch of Bumper 8, July 24, 1950

DOCUMENTING CAPE CANAVERAL

DOCUMENTING CAPE CANAVERAL

• Collaboration with the Air Force for consideration of new

methods for cultural resource documentation and stabilization

ensuring compliance and better long-term management and

planning for federal historic resources.

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TRADITIONAL DOCUMENTATION

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DOCUMENTING CAPE CANAVERAL

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DOCUMENTING CAPE CANAVERAL

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THE PROJECT

• Five year Cooperative Agreement between Air Force and USF

to document, analyze, monitor, perform archaeological

condition assessments, create stabilization plans, and 3D

virtualize historic launch complexes and/or structures that are

imperiled.

• Added values include public interpretation, education, and

benefits to the Air Force for protocol development for historic

preservation documentation and monitoring projects on federal

installations.

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BUILDING 49800-SIMPLICITY AND COST SAVINGS

• Free-standing structure which did not need a frame – only one

left of its kind

• Prototype launch shelter in support of the Goose/Bull Goose

missile program (Cold War Era relationship)

• Designed in response to costly ground concealment and need

for launch erector and gantry systems for missile programs

• Idea was to be able to rapidly deploy and store at minimal

costs

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BUILDING 49800

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DOCUMENTATION TOOLS

• RTK GPS, mapping grade GPS, GPS photography

• Two FARO Focus 3D (120s) and Focus3D X 330

• Standard photography

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CAD LAYOUT IMPORT IN FARO SCENE 5.3

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CAD LAYOUT IMPORT

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COMPARING AND VISUALIZING EXISTING CONDITIONS AGAINST AS-DESIGNED USING SCENE SOFTWARE

COMPARING AND VISUALIZING EXISTING CONDITIONS AGAINST AS-DESIGNED USING SCENE SOFTWARE

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ORTHOPHOTOS FOR CAD AND ANALYSIS

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WEB SHARE AND 2GO FUNCTIONALITY

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POINT CLOUD TO MESH

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POINT CLOUD TO 3D MESH MODEL

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POINT CLOUD TO 3D MESH MODEL

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LAUNCH COMPLEX 34 – THE APOLLO MEMORIAL

Site of the first NASA tragedy with the loss of Apollo I in January 1967

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AUGMENTED REALITY USING TLS MODELS

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IMPROVING THE PUBLIC INTERPRETIVE EXPERIENCE WITH 3D

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TLS SURVEY

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POINT CLOUD VISUALIZATIONS

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AERIAL IMAGERY AND LIDAR FOR THE LANDSCAPE

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LAUNCH COMPLEX 14 LANDSCAPE AREA

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LAUNCH COMPLEX 31/32

First operational in 1961, Complex 31/32

was used to support testing of the Minuteman

series of missiles. The complex silos were

selected as the resting place for the debris from

the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster.

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TLS SURVEY

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CAD LAYOUT IMPORT

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CAD LAYOUT IMPORT

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CAD LAYOUT IMPORT

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WEB GIS PRODUCTS

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WEB GIS PRODUCTS

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POINTCLOUDS TO THE MESH MODELS AND 3D PRINTS

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Wreckage and boxes of Challenger

debris were delivered to the site starting

on 8 January 1987, lowered into silos

31B and 32B and then capped with

concrete lids.

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After investigation was complete, the debris was placed in four

underground storage areas and two unused missile silos at

Space Launch Complex 31 & 32 at Cape Canaveral Air Station.

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CONTINUING PUBLIC OUTREACH AND EDUCATION EFFORTS

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SPACE HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY TRAINING

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Special thanks to the AIST team:

Jeff Du Vernay and Bart McLeod, 3D Survey

Jorge Gonzalez, 3D Modeling

Steven Fernandez, LiDAR and GIS

Grad Student Researchers Joseph Evans, Garrett Speed, and Rich McKenzie

and to FARO for their help and support on this important project