Photogrammetric Techniques for Digital Documentation of Subterranean Maya Architecture

Summary

Photogrammetric techniques are increasingly being used for documenting cultural heritage sites for digital preservation and analysis, but the challenges of working in constrained spaces with difficult lighting conditions have encumbered widespread adoption in subterranean environments. The Proyecto Arquitectura Subterranea de Quintana Roo, coordinated by the Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI), at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico, is conducting a survey and program of digital documentation of cave shrines in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Due to rapid development and population expansion in the area, these sites are increasingly being exposed to the threat of vandalism, necessitating the development of efficient 3D reality-capture tools to fully and accurately document the sites before they are further damaged.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 22580