Architecture & Cultural Heritage

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The creation of 3D reconstruction and representations of Heritage Resources requires methodologies to
digitally acquire, interpret and describe the morphological and topological features and the visual appearance.

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In particular, the documentation of the built heritage has benefited in recent years significant advances in 3D laser scanning and digital imaging. Today, 3D data becomes a key component to store information of heritage sites. This technological enthusiasm has generated, in the last decade, a large number of projects, led by research groups, which have demonstrated the potential of 3D digitisation on different scales and for multiple purposes: historical, digital preservation, monitoring, analysis of deterioration, cultural dissemination and so on.

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Nevertheless, it is obvious that the application of these new technologies is currently producing an important problem of information overload. The growing mass of point clouds, 3D models, un-interpreted data make indeed emerge a great need for innovative methodologies assisting data processing, sorting and analysis by researchers who want to use it for advancing the knowledge of cultural heritage.

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In fact, the 3D representation by itself does not allow capitalizing and managing the entire knowledge fostering the understanding and the analysis of heritage artefacts. As a consequence, some research begins, firstly, to structure information about the building morphology from a spatial and temporal point of view, and secondly, to link the documentation produced during the analysis stage, by creating interfaces for handling this data set and linking it to a morphological representation of the building.
 

Evmolpos provides a full 3D modelling service based on 3D aerial photogrammetry techniques for the generation of location accurate and fully textured 3D model of natural, urban and industrial environments. 3D models are generated using advanced aerial acquisition and photogrammetry techniques that extract accurate geometric information from aerial photographs. Extremely dense 3D point clouds are generated prior to being transformed into a fully-textured mesh object. To generate geographically accurate data, precise ground control points are integrated into our processing chain.