Integrated Technology for Archaeological Imaging in the Field and in the Lab

Integrated Data Capture Technologies and Methodologies for RapidArchaeological Field Deployment and the Creation of Point Cloud Based Data

Scaffolds for Cultural Heritage Dissemination: Case Studies from Cyprus, Italy, Jordan, and San Diego

For The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA7 June 2013

Ashley M. Richter

Ashley M. RichterCultural Heritage Diagnostics Engineering Researcher

PhD Student, Anthropological Archaeology

National Science Foundation’s (NSF)

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) project for

Training, Research and Education in Engineering for Cultural Heritage Diagnostics (TEECH)

at the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (CISA3)

at the California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2)

at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

•Intro

•The Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, & Archaeology at the University of California, San Diego

•Layered Reality Systems

•Laser Scanning for CyberArchaeology & Digital Scaffolds

•Structure from Motion for CyberArchaeology

•Structured Light for CyberArchaeology

•Project Expansions

•The Ethics & Future Issues of Digitization & Layered Realities

University College, University of Durham, United KingdomBA Joint Honours in Archaeology & Ancient History

University of LeicesterMA Archaeology & Heritage

Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and

Archaeology=

Engineering

Computer Science

Cognitive Science

Anthropology

AncientHistory

Museum Studies

ArchaeologyPublic Archaeology

Chemistry

Physics

Political Science

Mathematics

Architecture

Visual Arts

Interdisciplinary & Collaborative

Material Science

ArtHistory

LAYERED REALITIES

Satellite Imagery

Aerial Photography (Visible, Multispectral)

Point Clouds- Raw & Modeled Layers

High Resolution Photography

Artifact Layers

Multispectral Imaging

Community Input

Textual Annotation Layers

Cartography

GIS

METADATA

Layered Realities!!

3D Immersive Cave Systems

Collaborative Visualization Walls

Augmented Reality: ARtifact

Capable Point Rendering Software

But what does it mean?

LIGHT DETECTION & RANGING (LIDAR)

Initial Work in CyprusCyprus Archaeometallurgical Project (CAMP)

Terrestrial LiDAR= The best way to get a dense data scaffold in the field- if it could be adapted for rapid deployment in

uncertain environments…

TEST CASE 2011 Khirbat Faynan, Jordan *testing the engineering*creating metadata standards & workflow *building a digital scaffold

Rescue LiDAR at Umm al-Amad

SANDCASTLES FOR SCIENCE

NSF-IGERT Mini- Grant Project: Sediment Interval & Site Deformation Processes: Exploring Time Lapse Laser Scanning Capabilities & Methodologies for Archaeology

Structure from Motion

Jordan 2012: Back at Faynan looking at integrating more technologies into the data capture process…

Invited to collect data at Petra….

The Temple of the Winged Lions with the American Center of Oriental Research’s

Conservation Project

Byzantine Petra Mosaic Church

Structured Light

Upcoming: The Digital Documentation of Balboa Park & its Museum Collections for their centennial

Fall Field Work in Italy

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Digitally Documenting Egnazio Danti’s Terrestrial Globe in the Map Room at the

Palazzo Vecchio

• Full visible & multispectral documentation in 2D and 3D

• Data Sets Layered Together• What does the globe show?• Data, Analysis, & Historical

Background published via ARtifact

The CISA3 Undergraduate Research Interns: Past & Present

•Rebecca Asch, International Studies, Data Collection Management•Shelby Cohantz, Cognitive Science, Neurological User Interface Design

•James M. Darling, Cognitive Science, Phenomenological User Interface Design•Ross Davison, Archaeology, Laser Scanning Use in Field Archaeology

(now graduated, works with CyArk)•Jonathan Eliashiv, Geophysics, Underwater Site De-Formation

•Aliya Hoff, Anthropology- Underwater Archaeology•Kat Huggins, Anthropology, Illustration Apps, Materiality & 3D Printing

•Annie Jessup-Snyder, Visualizing Lithic Typologies•Jessica Linback, International Studies, Data Hierarcihes for Point Clouds

•Bridget McGovern, Linguistics, Education Outreach•Adrian Phillips, ICAM, Social Implications of Augmented Reality Systems

•Savannah Shifrin, Anthropology, Coastal Site Deformation•Leah Trujillo, Anthropology, Education Outreach

(graduated- now works for LACHMA)•Lillian Wakefield, Environmental Chemistry, XRF & Multispectral Imaging for Cultural

Heritage Diagnostic Visualization

Taking our terrestrial data collection and visualization methodologies and applying them towards underwater

cultural heritage surveys

Underwater Archaeology

Multi-Spectral Imaging

X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)

Radiography

Cognitively Designed User Interfaces for our Software Infrastructures & Visualization Systems

But what does it mean?

PHYSICAL

Evolving Data Capturing Technologies Mean

INTANGIBLE

(Ceci n’est pas le site!)

The Site A Photograph of the Site (2D)

Accurate 3D Point Cloud Model of the Site

Digital Sites Create Questions of Authenticity

If you have a digital replica- Do you need to preserve the reality? Can there even be a

reality if it is based on perception and propaganda?

Emergence of cultural heritage heteroutopias-

Is the heteroutopia better than the original as a more easily disseminatable

imagined conglomorate?

Can the experience of the false place be more or less authentic if it’s the idealized /archetypal version?

Can we ever collect a digital recreation which accurately holds onto the phenomenological experience of the reality?

•Would we then need to keep reality?

•What does it mean to be able to experience all times and all places? Can we even calculate and program that?

What will an Augmented Reality mean?

“Augmented Reality: It’s like Real Life, But Better!”

– Guardian Headline

If and when everyone can experience the past- what does this mean to their sense of self in time?

Globalism = awareness of space

Social Media/Internet= awareness of society

What happens when there is a global awareness of time and one’s place in it?

If all information is available- how does one navigate through it without becoming lost-

losing self/losing meaning?

Jose Luis Borges The Library of Babel

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS• The National Science Foundation (NSF) Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)

project for Training, Research and Education in Engineering for Cultural Heritage Diagnostics (TEECH)

• the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (CISA3)•

• the California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2)•

• the Anthropology Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

• My fellow CISA3 Asgardians: Vid Petrovic (gentleman thief), XXX XXXXX, David Vanoni (white knight & tiger), and Andrew Huyhn (penguin conniseur)

• My CISA3 colleagues, esp: John Mangan, Joe DeBlasio, David Srour, Jason Kimball, and Sam Stout

• My CURIs- especially James Darling and Aliya Hoff

• Professors Thomas E. Levy (Anthropology), Falko Kuester (Computer Science & Engineering), Maurizio Seracini (EmerituS Engineering)

• The fabulous Alex Hubenko, amazing Vanessa Pool, and clever-clever Daniel Johnson

Interested in Visiting/Training/Collaborating?

Email contact: arichter@ucsd.edu

And Come Visit CISA3 at Qi/Calit2

Second floor of Atkinson Hall

University of California, San Diego

Questions?

Comments?

Philosophical Ruminations?