Advanced Techniques for Fast and Accurate Heritage Digitisation in Multiple Case Studies
Department of Architecture, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Plaza Oñati 2, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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Sustainability 2020, 12(15), 6068; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156068
Received: 30 June 2020 / Revised: 16 July 2020 / Accepted: 24 July 2020 / Published: 28 July 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heritage under Threat: Digital Documentation, Preservation and Sustainable Management)
All elements of heritage are exposed to more or less predictable risks. Even though they are in a good state of conservation with economic support for their repair or maintenance, they can suffer sudden accidents leading to their imminent destruction. It is therefore necessary to safeguard them in all scenarios, regardless of the respective scale or state of conservation. That process must at least be based on complete and accurate 3D digitisation. The evolution of devices, software/hardware and platforms nowadays allows such information to be gathered in a sustainable manner. Various existing resources were tried and compared at several heritage sites of different scales with dissimilar risk and protection, following the guidelines of different ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) committees. Each case study addresses the choice of digitisation techniques and the characteristics of the end product obtained. The most suitable modality for each situation is analysed, depending on different factors such as accessibility and risks faced. Although the 3D laser scanner is clearly a very fast and very accurate resource, automated photogrammetry is one of the more accessible and affordable resources; along with the potential of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), this enables the digitisation to be sustainably completed.
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Keywords:
heritage; 3D laser scanning; automated photogrammetry; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); 3D model; building information modelling (BIM)
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Leon, I.; Pérez, J.J.; Senderos, M. Advanced Techniques for Fast and Accurate Heritage Digitisation in Multiple Case Studies. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6068. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156068
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Leon I, Pérez JJ, Senderos M. Advanced Techniques for Fast and Accurate Heritage Digitisation in Multiple Case Studies. Sustainability. 2020; 12(15):6068. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156068
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeon, Iñigo, José J. Pérez, and María Senderos. 2020. "Advanced Techniques for Fast and Accurate Heritage Digitisation in Multiple Case Studies" Sustainability 12, no. 15: 6068. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156068
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