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What is Laser Scanning Survey

Chapter 11
Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Architectural and Archaeological Heritage
Is a technology that is revealing more and more the importance of complex objects and in particular for the documentation of cultural and environmental heritage. The high amount of data acquired in a short time you can run the relief geometric object with a remarkable level of detail and completeness. The result of one scanning is a very numerous set of points (called “point cloud”) distributed on the object to be detected, depending on the degree of detail that you want to achieve. The aim is to create a three-dimensional digital model as close as possible to the reality of the scanned object, to conduct design studies and / or restoration and conservation.
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San Pietro di Deca in Torrenova: Integrated Survey Techniques for the Morphological Transformation Analysis
Manuela Bassetta (Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy), Francesca Fatta (Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy), and Andrea Manti (Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 33
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0675-1.ch011
Abstract
In this chapter San Pietro di Deca represented an opportunity for scientific knowledge process experimentation applied to a small building with a great past, an unknown monument standing in north west of Sicily that recently has been studied by a team of Austrian archeologists. The first scientific survey carried out by the authors by means of the latest technology as well as all the stages of the research are presented: the historical research, the laser scanner survey, the critical analysis leading to the interpretation of the architecture's masonry structures, and an accurate analytical representation of the transformation processes experienced by the structure from its origin until today. The evaluation of the survey and its comparison with similar Byzantine Sicilian buildings were major steps confirming the hypotheses inferred on the morphological evolution of the structure.
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