So far little attention has been paid to the territorial aspects of cultural heritage, dispersion patterns and clustering processes nor to the changes induced by tourism on the physical, economic and social environment. Studying the territorial cohesion of different elements of cultural heritage and the interdependency between tangible and intangible heritage assets brings us closer to an under...

The aim of the Scanning of the Pyramids Project 2004 was to apply and test latest state-of-the-art terrestrial laser scanners combined with a calibrated digital camera for high accuracy, high resolution and long distance topographic scanning in archaeology. The monuments selected for the first campaign are the Cheops Pyramid and the Sphinx. The data form the basis for a detailed threedimensiona...

The goal of the Heritage Identification Monuments project is to create an automated system for recognition and classification historical sites. project's main preserve maintain rich cultural heritage world, which comprises a variety structures monuments. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), one most advanced deep learning techniques, will be used in this research extract features representatio...

It is fascinating to look at any digitization project from the scientific, technical and implementation points of view. However, it is necessary to consider the financial perspective as well. In this work we attempt to evaluate two common practices (photogrammetry and laser scanning) for the creation of 3D reconstructions of Cultural Heritage monuments. We question the applicability of these pr...

Nowadays the digital documentation and 3D modeling of Cultural Heritage objects and sites is receiving much more attention. This is due from one side to the large amount of technologies and data available for fast, detailed and quick documentation and from the other side to the great interest of restorators and archaeologists towards instruments able to provide innovative inspections and diagno...

Preventive conservation implies, amongst many other aspects, the characterization of the atmospheric environment around monuments or cultural heritage (CH) items, with the intention to improve the conditions and to contribute to the preservation. We have, over the last two decades, intensively used various forms of X-ray spectrometry and automated electron probe X-ray microanalysis, always toge...

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...

Non-destructive in situ analysis of materials is highly desirable in cultural heritage studies, for it precludes the need for intensive sampling. The present study focused on the usability of Raman spectrometers, which can provide such analysis, in the identification of conservation treatments applied to stone materials forming part of the architectural heritage. Two products commonly used to c...

In the present study we demonstrate the value of the SRTM 3 arc-second terrain model for a virtual survey of archaeological sites -the detection and localization of ancient settlement mounds in the Near East. These so-called "tells" are the result of millennia of settlement activity within the period from 8000-1000 BC, and form visible landmarks of the world’s first farming and urban communitie...