Documentation of monuments includes not only geometric analysis but also the detection of alterations and pathologies to define proper actions for protection and preservation. Several pathologies can be found on façades such as moisture, detachments, leaks and replacements. Multispectral techniques can help users to detect and determine these phenomena. Thermography is a nonintrusive imaging te...

Monuments of natural beauty are protected by international treaties similarly to cultural heritage objects. Some of the them need to be preserved due to abandonment and other need to be protected due to a range of reasons, like for example structural or geological. The paper presents a case study of 3D documentation of a rock cliff, which is protected as a monument of natural beauty. In specifi...

Cultural heritage protection demands targeted restoration actions in order to increase monuments’ lifetime. Such actions require the use of conservation materials (e.g., consolidation materials), which can increase the durability of historic materials. However, the performance of each material on the restoration phase significantly differs with respect to its type, chemical properties and the b...

The cultural heritage artifacts Conservation Documentation format is not universally agreed upon nor has it always been considered an important aspect of the conservation profession. Conservation records present major drawbacks, which are the fragmentary and incomplete description of the contained information and related processes. On the other hand, as strict regulations prohibit invasive test...

The presented work is led in the framework of a general collaboration between three academic labs, industrial partners and Cultural institutions (Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Louvre museum). Such a pluridisciplinary work always in progress at Ecole Centrale Paris deals with 3D digitization, simulation, rapid prototyping, virtual restoration applied on a french medieval sculpture. The main pu...

In 1942, Katherine Frost Bruner published an article titled ‘‘Of psychological writing: Being some valedictory remarks on style.’’ It was published in Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, the journal for which she served as editorial assistant between 1937 and 1941. Her collection of advice to writing scholars has been widely quoted, including by several editions of The Publication Manual...

In September 2000 AIRSAR-TOPSAR data were acquired over the environment and cultural landscape of the World Heritage site of Angkor in Cambodia as part of a collaborative research project between APSARA (Royal Cambodian Government Agency responsible for Angkor), EFEO (Ecole Francaise d’Eextreme Orient) and the University of Sydney. Termed the Greater Angkor Project, additional support from the ...

The paper describes the development of a low-cost and rapid technique, for documentation and monitoring of the cultural heritage, with particular regard to emergency management, anomaly detection and early warning. The technique uses images captured and sent by camera phones. An archive, with several images of selected monuments has been set up. For monitoring purposes, or in case of damages, a...

In this paper we present the modeling and visualization of the cultural heritage area of Bamiyan, Afghanistan. The region is situated ca 200 km north-west of Kabul and it was one of the major Buddhist centres until the ninth century AD. The two standing Buddhas belonged to some of the most famous Buddhist monuments world-wide. In 2001 they were destroyed through an act of vandalism by the Taleb...

The ARC project (for Architecture Represented Computationally) is an attempt to reproduce in computer form the architectural historian’s mental model of the Gothic cathedral. This model includes the background information necessary to understand a natural language architectural description. Our first task is to formalize the description of Gothic cathedrals in a logical language, and provide a ...