Capturing Archaeological Sites & Artifacts in 3D for Archaeological Analysis & Cultural Heritage Dissemination

Ashley M. Richter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BRIEF INTRO

•CISA3

•Point Clouds as a Digital Scaffold

PART ONE: Laser Scanning for Archaeological Landscapes

•Intro to the Mechanism

•Evolution of the Scanner

•Field Problems & Solutions

•Jordanian Field Examples

•Scan Planning

•Scanning Basics

PART TWO: Laser Scanning for Cultural Heritage Artifacts

•Intro to the Mechanism

•Field Problems & Solutions

•Scanning Basics

Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology =

But what does it mean?

Layered Realities!!

3D Immersive Cave Systems

Collaborative Visualization Walls

Augmented Reality: ARtifact

Capable Point Rendering Software

LAYERED REALITIES

Satellite Imagery

Aerial Photography (Visible, Multispectral)

Point Clouds- Raw & Modeled Layers

High Resolution Photography

Artifact Layers

Multispectral Imaging

Community Input

Textual Annotation Layers

Cartography

GIS

From English Heritage

LIGHT DETECTION & RANGING (LIDAR)

BRIEF FARO VIDEO

The Evolution of the Laser Scanner

Cyrax Models Leica Scanstation 2

Leica C10

Faro Focus 3D

KHIRBAT FAYNAN

Terrestrial LiDAR= The best way to get a dense data scaffold in the field-

if it could be adapted for rapid deployment in uncertain

environments…

•Weight•Electricity•Time•The Unexpected

Using LiDAR in the Field…

TEST CASE 2011 Khirbat Faynan, Jordan

*testing the engineering

*creating metadata standards & workflow

*building a digital scaffold

UMM AL-AMAD

Rescue LiDAR at Umm al-Amad

Byzantine Petra Mosaic Church

Scan Planning

•Pre-Plan: Size, Schedule, Power, Transport..

•Trouble Shoot the Landscape

•Re-Assess the Plan & Prioritize

•Scan, Scan, Scan

•Scan

•Keep up your Labeling Systems

•Keep visual & textual Metadata throughout

The Faro Focus

The Leica C10

The Leica ScanStation 2

Structured Light

Structure from Motion