Reconstruction of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Context of Ancient Objects in Time and Space
Diachronic studies play a key role in the research and documentation of cultural heritage and its changes, ranging from architectural fragments to landscape. Regarding the reconstructions of lost cultural heritage sites, the determination of landscape conditions in the reconstructed era goes frequen...
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| description | Diachronic studies play a key role in the research and documentation of cultural heritage and its changes, ranging from architectural fragments to landscape. Regarding the reconstructions of lost cultural heritage sites, the determination of landscape conditions in the reconstructed era goes frequently unheeded. Often, only ruins and detached archeological artefacts remain of the built heritage. Placing them correctly within the reconstructed building complex is of similar importance as placing the lost monument in the context of the landscape at that time. The proposed method harmonizes highly heterogeneous sources to provide such a context. The solution includes the fusion of referential terrain models of different levels of detail (LODs) as well as the fusion of diverse 3D data sources for the reconstruction of the built heritage. Although the combined modeling of large landscapes and small 3D objects of a high detail results in very large datasets, we present a feasible solution, whose data structure is suitable for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of landscapes and also provides a smooth and clear 3D visualization and inspection of detailed features. The results are demonstrated in the case study of the island monastery, the vanished medieval town of Sekanka, and the surrounding landscape, which is located in Czechia and was the subject of intensive changes over time. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-85859f4faf594bde84941ec5f4a2c83b2023-11-20T17:04:16ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642020-10-0191060410.3390/ijgi9100604Reconstruction of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Context of Ancient Objects in Time and SpaceLukáš Brůha0Josef Laštovička1Tomáš Palatý2Eva Štefanová3Přemysl Štych4Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech RepublicDepartment of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech RepublicProject Management Department, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech RepublicDepartment of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech RepublicDepartment of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech RepublicDiachronic studies play a key role in the research and documentation of cultural heritage and its changes, ranging from architectural fragments to landscape. Regarding the reconstructions of lost cultural heritage sites, the determination of landscape conditions in the reconstructed era goes frequently unheeded. Often, only ruins and detached archeological artefacts remain of the built heritage. Placing them correctly within the reconstructed building complex is of similar importance as placing the lost monument in the context of the landscape at that time. The proposed method harmonizes highly heterogeneous sources to provide such a context. The solution includes the fusion of referential terrain models of different levels of detail (LODs) as well as the fusion of diverse 3D data sources for the reconstruction of the built heritage. Although the combined modeling of large landscapes and small 3D objects of a high detail results in very large datasets, we present a feasible solution, whose data structure is suitable for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of landscapes and also provides a smooth and clear 3D visualization and inspection of detailed features. The results are demonstrated in the case study of the island monastery, the vanished medieval town of Sekanka, and the surrounding landscape, which is located in Czechia and was the subject of intensive changes over time.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/10/6043D modelingdiachronic reconstructioncultural heritageLODsmart objectdata fusion |
| spellingShingle | Lukáš Brůha Josef Laštovička Tomáš Palatý Eva Štefanová Přemysl Štych Reconstruction of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Context of Ancient Objects in Time and Space ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 3D modeling diachronic reconstruction cultural heritage LOD smart object data fusion |
| title | Reconstruction of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Context of Ancient Objects in Time and Space |
| title_full | Reconstruction of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Context of Ancient Objects in Time and Space |
| title_fullStr | Reconstruction of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Context of Ancient Objects in Time and Space |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconstruction of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Context of Ancient Objects in Time and Space |
| title_short | Reconstruction of Lost Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes: Context of Ancient Objects in Time and Space |
| title_sort | reconstruction of lost cultural heritage sites and landscapes context of ancient objects in time and space |
| topic | 3D modeling diachronic reconstruction cultural heritage LOD smart object data fusion |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/10/604 |
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