Abstract
Cultural heritage today is endangered by many factors, some natural and most of them anthropogenic. The natural factors include vegetation, growing trees, some disasters, as earthquakes, atmospheric processes, etc. Among the anthropogenic factors there is also related to vegetation – agriculture and the cultivated crops, and related to construction activities and mining. Due to these factors the cultural heritage needs careful preservation and conservation activities and measures. The monitoring is probably the best way to provide a constant or frequent observation of the status and condition of the cultural sites. The provided method for monitoring is based on combination of satellite imagery and aerial photos, GIS mapping and integration of all the data into a geodatabase. The case study in this paper is the first capital of Bulgaria, Pliska, one of the most important archaeological reserves in Bulgaria.
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Stamenov, S., Stamenova, V. (2021). Geoinformation Technologies for Conservation of Cultural Heritage. In: Ioannides, M., Fink, E., Cantoni, L., Champion, E. (eds) Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_45
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