Comparing 3d Digital Technologies for Archaeological Fieldwork Documentation. The Case of Thessaloniki Toumba Excavation, Greece

Stamnas, A.; Kaimaris, Dimitris; Georgiadis, Charalampos; Πατιάς, Πέτρος

doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-xlvi-m-1-2021-713-2021

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“…Different 3D documentation techniques were tested to ascertain labour and timecost effectiveness, as well as the size and quality of the final product (cf. Galeazzi, 2016;Ferdani et al, 2019; for a comparison between the techniques used at Thessaloniki Toumba, see Stamnas et al, 2021). The first technique involved the use of a laser scanner; the second technique involved structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry using a custom-made Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and a hand-held digital camera (Figure 5).…”

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Smart Eye: An Application for In Situ Accessibility to “Invisible” Heritage Sites

Efkleidou

Kaimaris

Roustanis

et al. 2022

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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The Smart Eye Application is an augmented reality app for mobile devices that enables the in-situ 3D visualization of underground and inaccessible to the public archaeological sites and monuments.Accessibility to excavated archaeological sites and monuments is often hindered for reasons of preservation or urban development. Portable finds are transferred and, in some cases, exhibited in local museums, but the non-portable remains of ancient structures become eventually effaced from the landscape and the collective memory of local communities. The Smart Eye app provides an "x-ray" type view of excavation sites that have been backfilled and are now invisible. While common practice in heritage sites' digital dissemination to the general public uses 2D or 3D reconstructions in augmented or virtual reality environments, the Smart Eye app presents archaeological remains in the shape and form they were found in by archaeologists supplemented with augmented reality markers that provide simplified textual and visual information aimed toward a non-scholarly public. The aim is to re-instate these heritage sites into the interactive relationship that people have with their landscape and their history.The present paper discusses the chaîne-opératoire of developing the app, from the acquisition of primary documentation data of the excavation sites to the methodology used for the production of the 3D models of the archaeological sites and the development of the app itself and the technical equipment used. Finally, we discuss the results of the preliminary evaluation of the application and future steps to improve it before final testing by the local communities where the archaeological sites are located.

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Section: Real-time 3d Data Acquisitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Eye: An Application for In Situ Accessibility to “Invisible” Heritage Sites

Efkleidou

Kaimaris

Roustanis

et al. 2022

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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3D Archaeology and Cultural Heritage: Where Are We Today?

Hostettler,

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Drummer

et al. 2024

The 3 Dimensions of Digitalised Archaeology

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Although the basics of 3D technologies developed rather early on, only today are we seeing a steep increase in the application of 3D technologies in archaeological practice. This volume aims to give a broad overview of possible applications in the field, but also to open a discussion about the challenges and problematic aspects of this method so far. Only if there is an awareness of the implications and challenges of implementing this new technology in the everyday practice of field and research archaeology can archaeology take full advantage of its possibilities.

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Advanced Technologies Used in Digitizing the Cultural Heritage of Northwestern Colchis: The Experience of the Markul Expedition

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The article presents the experience of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Science’s Markul Expedition, which utilized digital technologies for the study, preservation, and popularization of cultural heritage. The objective of the Markul Expedition was to obtain a complete picture of the historical and cultural landscape of Northwestern Colchis in antiquity by applying two key digital technologies: geographic information systems (GIS) and photogrammetry. The results obtained from the latter were used both independently and were integrated into GIS as separate layers (orthophotomaps, digital terrain models) or as hyperlinks to objects (3D models, videos, plans, sections, etc.). The objects investigated by the expedition are very diverse both in size and in terms of shooting conditions. Accordingly, each category of archaeological site required an individual approach, and a separate methodology and equipment. The final visualization angles differ to a fair extent from the original samples even though photogrammetry provides more accurate results than manual measurements. There are several reasons for this, including the vegetation, which is a dominant factor in the Caucasus subtropical area and led to partial visual distortions of the photographed objects. For this reason, the final projections of architectural forms required corrections and some hand drawing. In this process, new aspects appeared in the final result, resulting from the archaeologist and artist’s differing views of the objects. Our experience of using modern remote sensing technologies is also presented in the article.

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Comparing 3d Digital Technologies for Archaeological Fieldwork Documentation. The Case of Thessaloniki Toumba Excavation, Greece

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Smart Eye: An Application for In Situ Accessibility to “Invisible” Heritage Sites

Smart Eye: An Application for In Situ Accessibility to “Invisible” Heritage Sites

3D Archaeology and Cultural Heritage: Where Are We Today?

Advanced Technologies Used in Digitizing the Cultural Heritage of Northwestern Colchis: The Experience of the Markul Expedition

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