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All data was acquired with the help and permission of the Institute Nacional de Cultur (INC). Without the help, facilites, and resources provided by the INC this project would not have been a success. Thank you to:

Vladimir Dávila - Arquitecto del P.A.N MACHUPICCHU
Director del P.A.N Machu Picchu
Direccion Regional de Cultura Cusco

and

Fernando Astete - National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu

 

Please note. This data is distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License  (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ for the full license). You are free to share and remix these data under the condition that you include attribution as provided here.  You may not use the data or products in a commercial purpose without additional approvals. Please attach the following credit to all data and products developed there from:

Credit: 

Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, (University of Arkansas) and Cotsen Institute for Archaeology (UCLA)

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Data developed under the authority of the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Vladimir Dávila - Arquitecto del P.A.N Machu Picchu, Director del P.A.N Machu Picchu Direccion Regional de Cultura Cusco and Fernando Astete - National Archaeological Park of Machu Picchu. Data acquired, processed and distributed by the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies staff (Snow Winters, Malcolm Williamson and Katie Simon) and by students in the 2009 Cotsen Institute for Archaeology  (UCLA) Cuzco/Machu Picchu Field School, Alexei Vranich Director.

 

Select the links below to see examples of the data collected and downloads for each data set.

Cuzco

 


Flyover of Cuzco with the following data sets.

 


A digital elevation model (DEM) of Cuzco based on topographic lines from the 1978 INC survey


Digital files representing the locations of Inca walls throughout Cuzco


High resolution photos for Kuricancha, Saqsaywaman, and other areas around Cuzco

 

Machu Picchu

 

Focus Scan Areas of Machu Picchu, Peru
Six focus areas were chosen for the students to complete high-resolution scans. 
 

 

Temple of the Sun

Intiwatana

Principal (Main) Temple

Temple of the Condor

Knob Room (Conjunto 16, room 4)

Water Mirrors Room (Cunjunto 16, room 1)


In each of these focus areas we collected the following:

High resolution (1-5 cm) laser scans in both 3D point cloud and polygonal mesh formats
High resolution metric photos for photogrammetric applications (e.g., in Photo Modeller Scanner)
High resolution texture photos for visualization applications (e.g., in SketchUp or Photo Modeller)