[Aztlan] 3D laser scanning question

[Ed Barnhart]

Thanks to all for your helpful advice on this matter.  What a great new tool
to document endangered monuments!

Dr. Edwin Barnhart
Director, Maya Exploration Center
7301 Ranch Road 620 N
Suite 155 #284
Austin, Texas 78726
(512) 350-3321

-----Original Message-----
From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org [mailto:aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org]
On Behalf Of Sandy Mielke
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:31 AM
To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] 3D laser scanning question

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, T ampa

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

(813) 907-5400


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