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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Published in:ISPRS international journal of geo-information 2020-10, Vol.9 (10), p.604
Main Authors: Brůha, Lukáš, Laštovička, Josef, Palatý, Tomáš, Štefanová, Eva, Štych, Přemysl
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
3D modeling
Archaeology
Context
Cultural heritage
Cultural resources
data fusion
Data models
Data structures
diachronic reconstruction
Geographic information systems
Geographical information systems
Historic sites
Information systems
Inspection
Landscape architecture
LOD
Memorials & monuments
Photogrammetry
Reconstruction
Remote sensing
Rivers
smart object
Terrain models
Visualization
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2220-9964
2220-9964
DOI:10.3390/ijgi9100604