Digital Modelling and Accuracy Verification of a Complex Architectural Object Based on Photogrammetric Reconstruction
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper shows and develops a method for creating a precise model of a complex geometry of historical architectural and landscape objects. A very deep and exhaustive state of art "justifies" the proposed methodology. I suggest only some references to researches about the geometric genesis/configuration of architecture, also involving VPL related to BIM.
Author Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
Many thanks for your kind and constructive review.
We have sent the text revised following the guidelines contained in the reviews.
Footnote number 24 has been added as a reference to the geometric reconstruction of architecture and HBIM.
Additionally:
Regarding the note concerning the justification of the software selection, an additional paragraph has been added in subchapter 2.2 (in the source file number 233, in pdf - lines 198-210).
Considering the comment concerning the sharing of historical heritage research results, we have added a paragraph explaining the prospects for using and making the resulting model publicly available (line 532 in the document source; lines 449 - 456 in the pdf).
The descriptions of the axes in the diagram in Figure 16 have been supplemented.
Additionally, Figures 13 and 14 have been swapped due to the improvement of the argument consistency.
The typos found have been corrected.
Sincerely
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Reviewer 2 Report
Overall the paper is written pretty well with minor typos and it can be accepted with minor revision.
It is recommended that the authors elaborate on why they have chosen Agisoft Metashape software to perform the photogrammetric reconstruction.
Please add axis units to the graphs in Figure 16.
Author Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
Many thanks for your kind and constructive review.
We have sent the text revised following the guidelines contained in the reviews.
Regarding the note concerning the justification of the software selection, an additional paragraph has been added in subchapter 2.2 (in the source file number 233, in pdf - lines 198-210).
The descriptions of the axes in the diagram in Figure 16 have been supplemented.
Additionally:
Footnote number 24 has been added as a reference to the geometric reconstruction of architecture and HBIM.
Considering the comment concerning the sharing of historical heritage research results, we have added a paragraph explaining the prospects for using and making the resulting model publicly available (line 532 in the document source; lines 449 - 456 in the pdf).
Figures 13 and 14 have been swapped due to the improvement of the argument consistency.
The typos found have been corrected.
Sincerely
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 3 Report
The research is very well presented and detailed, even if it consists on the application of well known practices for SfM acquisition, integration of data and modelling.
The correlation with ISOK databases and the opportunities of comparison and integration with open sources data on national heritage are very interesting and they open a big debate on the sharing of survey data for public and widespread protection of Cultural heritage, as crowdsourcing opportunities for Cultural Heritage digital data promoted by local administrations. An improvment of these kind of information, also planning comparison texts for a second stage of the research, could be improved in the paper.
Author Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
Many thanks for your kind and constructive review.
We have sent the text revised following the guidelines contained in the reviews.
Considering the comment concerning the sharing of historical heritage research results, we have added a paragraph explaining the prospects for using and making the resulting model publicly available (line 532 in the document source; lines 449 - 456 in the pdf).
Additionally:
Regarding the note concerning the justification of the software selection, an additional paragraph has been added in subchapter 2.2 (in the source file number 233, in pdf - lines 198-210).
The descriptions of the axes in the diagram in Figure 16 have been supplemented.
Footnote number 24 has been added as a reference to the geometric reconstruction of architecture and HBIM.
Additionally, Figures 13 and 14 have been swapped due to the improvement of the argument consistency.
The typos found have been corrected.
Sincerely
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 4 Report
The topic of this research is very interesting. The study case, Nowy Wisnicz Castle, is an historical building that presents a lot of survey problems (dimensions, complex geometries, conservation state, historical stratifications). The methodological approach applied by the researchers is very good. The main problems of the acquisition phase and of the processing phase are analyzed. There are two original parts: the first one about the point-clouds optimization using the filtration based on the confidence index, the second one about the use of LAS ISOK point clouds as a reference to scale the model.
The exposition and the references are complete and very good.
Author Response
Dear Sir or Madam,
Many thanks for your kind review.
We have sent the text revised following the guidelines contained in the reviews.
Regarding the note concerning the justification of the software selection, an additional paragraph has been added in subchapter 2.2 (in the source file number 233, in pdf - lines 198-210).
Considering the comment concerning the sharing of historical heritage research results, we have added a paragraph explaining the prospects for using and making the resulting model publicly available (line 532 in the document source; lines 449 - 456 in the pdf).
Footnote number 24 has been added as a reference to the geometric reconstruction of architecture and HBIM.
The descriptions of the axes in the diagram in Figure 16 have been supplemented.
Additionally, Figures 13 and 14 have been swapped due to the improvement of the argument consistency.
The typos found have been corrected.
Sincerely
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
