Petra documentation, by the Zamani Project @UCT South Africa

[rbhurtha]

Hi
The Zamani research group in the Geomatics Division at the University of Cape Town, in Partnership with UNESCO Jordan, has completed the third phase of the fieldwork for the documentation of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Petra in Jordan. The documentation covers the tombs, temples, the Siq canyon and the landscape over an a length of 2.9 km in Wadi Musa and 400 m in Wadi Farasa.

http://www.zamaniproject.org/transfer/L ... _Petra.pdf contains more information on this project.


For more on the Zamani project visit http://www.zamani-project.org

[vincent denis]

Whao it's an amazing project !!

[Matt Young]

Brilliant work guys!

12 Billion points scanned and 3000 photo's, that's an amazing amount of work!

[rbhurtha]

Thanks for your comments

Let me know if you want more details about our project in general!

[Seachordjr]

Fantastic work, what a dream project. Your polygonal models are very clean, I was wondering what your process and software used to get to your final deliverables. Did you convert your point cloud to polys and retopo in a 3d software? Looking at the video you can tell some interesting parts of the structure are buried, It would be cool to incorporate some seismographic scans in as well. Maybe someday.

[Jason Warren]

pure quality.... thank you for posting on the forum

[rbhurtha]

The scans are cleaned in Cyclone / Z+F software and Surfaces are extracted using Volumetric Merging / point-set based methods.


Here is another part of Petra that shows buried tombs.

[flohrd]

Wow, very impressive project. Thank you so much for sharing this on the forum!

[rbhurtha]

You are welcome!

[rbhurtha]

An introduction to the Zamani Project has been created here:
http://www.laserscanning.org.uk/forum/v ... =68&t=5325

thanks
Roshan