Temporal Terrestrial Laser Scanning to Visualize the Archaeological Excavation Process

dc.contributor.authorSrour, Daviden_US
dc.contributor.authorRichter, Ashleyen_US
dc.contributor.authorLevy, Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.authorKuester, Falkoen_US
dc.contributor.editor-en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-27T14:51:45Z
dc.date.available2015-04-27T14:51:45Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractArchaeology is a destructive science. Photographs and videos preserve some aspects of the sequence of events inherent within the archaeological excavation process, but cannot replicate the spatiality and detail of the downward progression of the digging entailed through excavation. Time lapse sequences of properly adapted and employed terrestrial laser scanning to create a temporal sequence of point clouds of the archaeological methodologies can, however, serve as an innovative step towards accurate documentation of crucial data for future archaeologists interested in the site. Over the course of the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship funded Sediment Intervals and Site Deformation Processes: Exploring Time Lapse Laser Scanning Capabilities and Methodologies for Archaeology, temporal scanning was tested on the beaches of San Diego to establish a baseline capability for data capture. Subsequently, the methodologies for data collection were utilized as a part of the excavation workflow at the University of California, San Diego's Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeological Project's excavation of a Roman era section of tell Khirbat Faynan in southern Jordan. With the data collected from the excavation as the impetus for new system development, original visualization processing designed with the archaeological problems and end-goals in mind is being created at the University of California, San Diego Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology in order to meaningful display the shifting data sets in real time and exhibit not just the archaeological data, but the archaeological process.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersTrack 1, Short Papersen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationDigital Heritage International Congressen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6743738en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6743738en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1109/DigitalHeritage
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subject{Arten_US
dc.subjectComputer architectureen_US
dc.subjectData collectionen_US
dc.subjectData visualizationen_US
dc.subjectEducational institutionsen_US
dc.subjectLaser theoryen_US
dc.subjectRealen_US
dc.subjecttime systemsen_US
dc.subjectCISA3en_US
dc.subjectJordanen_US
dc.subjectSan Diegoen_US
dc.subjectUCSDen_US
dc.subjectarchaeologyen_US
dc.subjectengineeringen_US
dc.subjectexcavationen_US
dc.subjectmethodologyen_US
dc.subjectprocessingen_US
dc.subjecttemporalen_US
dc.subjectterrestrial laser scanningen_US
dc.subjecttime lapseen_US
dc.subjectvisualization}en_US
dc.titleTemporal Terrestrial Laser Scanning to Visualize the Archaeological Excavation Processen_US
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