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

Integrated Data Capture Technologies and Methodologies for Rapid
Archaeological 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, UCLA
7 June 2013
Ashley M. Richter
Ashley M. Richter
Cultural 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 Kingdom
BA Joint Honours in Archaeology & Ancient History
University of Leicester
MA Archaeology & Heritage

Center of Interdisciplinary Science for
Art, Architecture, and Archaeology =

Engineering
Computer
Science
Cognitive
Science
Anthropology
Ancient
History
Museum
Studies
ArchaeologyPublic
Archaeology
Chemistry
Physics
Political
Science
Mathematics
Architecture
Visual Arts
Interdisciplinary & Collaborative
Material
Science
Art
History

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

Layered Realities!!
3D Immersive Cave Systems
Collaborative Visualization Walls
Augmented Reality: ARtifact
Capable Point Rendering Software

LIGHT DETECTION & RANGING (LIDAR)

Initial Work in Cyprus
Cyprus 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

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

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

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

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
THE DATA AVALANCHE
BIG DATA
Information information information information information information information information

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)

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?

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