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Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies

University of Arkansas

3D Archaeological Recording and Visualization Project at Eleusis Greece

Home » Education » Field Programs » 3D Archaeological Recording and Visualization Project at Eleusis Greece

 
2010 Field School

During the summer or 2010, the 3D Archaeological Recording and Visualization field school offered through the Cotsen Institute and in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Spatial Technolgies introduced students to a broad range of 3D recording, mapping, animation and visualization methods. Students were given hands-on instruction in these methods in the context of the major Greek archaeological site of Eleusis. Eleusis is world famous as the location of the Eleusian Mysteries – a significant Athenian religious festival - and is located some 14 miles west of Athens opposite the island of Salamis.

     
Dr. Jack Cothren is instructing students in GPS (left), scanner demonstration by Katie Simon (center), camera practice for photogrammetry (right)

During this 5 week field school, the students recorded the site’s extensive architectural remains using terrestrial laser scanning, photogrammetry, GIS and GPS.  3D computer visualization and animation technologies were used to re-create areas of the site. A totally of 100 scans were collected of the site, making Eleusis one of the most extensively scanned sites by CAST.

PROJECT DIRECTORS
Drs Evangelos Kyriakidis (University of Kent) Jackson Cothren and Fred Limp (University of Arkansas) are Project Co-Directors. Dr Kyriakidis is senior Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory in the university of Kent and director of the Initiative of Heritage Conservancy. Dr Cothren is Director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies and Professor of Geoscience. Dr. Limp is the Leica Geosystems Chair in Geospatial Imaging.

More information on the project directors can be found at:
Dr. Evangelos Kyriakidis http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/staff/EvangelosKyriakidis/index.html
Dr. Jackson Cothren http://www.cast.uark.edu/home/about/staff-web-pages/jack-cothren.html
Dr. Fred Limp http://www.cast.uark.edu/home/about/staff-web-pages/fred-limp.html