[Aztlan] 3D laser scanning question

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Saludos,

The Alliance for Integrated Spatial Technologies has been successfully conducting three-dimensional laser scanning in Mesoamerica for the past four years. Our scanners and capabilities span a range of spatial scales from hand-held artifacts, to monumental stone sculpture, to architectural features and structures, to entire sites and landscapes.  

Regarding Mesoamerican stone sculpture, we have developed methods to rescue or resurrect sculpted detail that has not been previously recorded by other forms of documentation. Recently, we concluded the Kaminaljuyú Sculpture Project: An Expandable Three-Dimensional Database, a project funded by a FAMSI major research grant (see http://www.famsi.org/reports/07007/index.html). The results of this project are currently being added to the FAMSI Imaging Project web page (http://research.famsi.org/3D_imaging/index.php), where anyone can view the 3D data on-line.

In the next month we will be adding scans of numerous stone monuments from the Southern Gulf Coast Olmec site of La Venta and the Guatemala Pacific Piedmont site of Takalik Abaj.

We will be happy to answer any questions you may have about three-dimensional laser scanning and its application to Mesoamerican archaeology.

Thanks.

Travis

Travis Doering, Ph.D. and Lori Collins, Ph.D.
Alliance for Integrated Spatial Technologies
Office of Research and Scholarship
University of South Florida, Tampa

tdoering at cas.usf.edu
lcollins at cas.usf.edu

(813) 907-5400


-----Original Message-----
From: Elaine Schele <elaineschele at gmail.com>
To: Ed Barnhart <edbarn
hart at mayaexploration.org>
Cc: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Sent: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 3:54 pm
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] 3D laser scanning question



Hi Ed,
Corpus team overcomes scanning snag,Ingenuity, flexibility helps Corpus expedition manage bumps in road
By Alvin Powell*
arvard News Office
A multicolored tent made of tarps and rope and tree branches and duct tape
ose above Yaxchilan's unique pinkish stalactite stela Monday (April 23). On
he last day of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology's expedition
o the ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan, team members were doing something at
hich they had proven themselves adept: improvising. The expedition had
lready achieved its main goal: testing digital scanning technology that
ould provide an important new way to preserve fading Maya monuments across
entral America. Despite some initial hiccoughs, the technology had proved
tself over the weekend, when scans of the large flat Stela 11 were
ompleted.
ee the link below for the rest of the story:
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/multimedia/specials/yaxchilan/index.html
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Ed Barnhart <edbarnhart at mayaexploration.org
 wrote:
> Dear Listeros,

 Does anyone know of a project that has scanned Maya stelae or altars with
 the new 3D laser scanning equipment? I'm referring to the kind of equipment
 that Cyark has been using.  Mainly I see architecture being scanned, not
 art
 and monuments.

 Thanks, Ed

 Dr. Edwin Barnhart
 Director, Maya Exploration Center
 7301 Ranch Road 620 N
 Suite 155 #284
 Austin, Texas 78726

 (512) 350-3321


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