Super Cool! California Non-Profit Using Lasers to Archive Cultural Landmarks
More content and technology info pros need to be aware of. Their motto? Digitally preserving and sharing the world's cultural heritage." This is so cool! If you don't have time to read the article, go directly to the CyArk video tour.
Founded in 2002 by engineer Ben K. Kacyra, one of the pioneers of 3D laser imaging, CyArk was launched with the mission of preserving highly detailed architectural and archaeological records of cultural heritage landmarks. Sites such as the Ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and even the Presidio of San Francisco have all been given CyArk's treatment, and now are safeguarded away down to the tiniest detail for future posterity in a complex High Definition Document (HDD) file.
Using a combination of methods such as traditional surveying, panoramic photography, GPS technology and (the key component) 3D laser scanning, CyArk is able to reduce the dimensions of these once irreplaceable sites to a literal million point data set, indicating everything from geophysical location down to the smallest angle change or irregularity on the surface.
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Having already identified an increasing number of historical sites in danger of natural and man-made hazards, among them the Mission San Juan Capistrano just an hour north of San Diego, CyArk plans to expand their archive as quickly as possible. Simultaneously they will also be "teaching others to fish" by sharing training and software with local cultural heritage organizations, enabling them to maintain up-to-date data sets on their own.
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