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Laser Scanning
Date July 2022
Event ID 1161663
Category Recording
Type Laser Scanning
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1161663
NT 25609 73305 In 2022, the City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh World Heritage (EWH), as a part of the Making Lasting Impressions Project, commissioned AOC Archaeology to create a digital record of carved monuments from the Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh.
Six monuments were selected for 3D recording. The selection criteria included the quality of carvings, architectural significance, their current condition, and potential to extract new information from the 3D data.
AOC Archaeology worked with partners, Leica Geosystems to combine the measurable record provided by terrestrial laser scanners with fine d etail a nd c olour fi delity ex tracted fr om photogrammetry data.
Once merged together, the data was meshed creating 3D geometry that was true to scale, and colour and contained fine detail needed for carvings analysis and conservation monitoring. The high-resolution models will be analysed by EWH and Friends of Greyfriars Kirkyard. The simplified m odels w ere u ploaded t o AOC’s 3D gallery on Sketchfab.
Archive: NRHE and City of Edinburgh Council HER (intended) Funder: City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh World Heritage
Marta Pilarska – AOC Archaeology Group
(Source: DES Volume 23)
