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A Virtual Excavation: Combining 3D Immersive Virtual Reality and Geophysical Surveying

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2011)

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The projection of multi-layered remote sensing and geophysical survey data into a 3D immersive virtual reality environment for non-invasive archaeological exploration is described. Topography, ultra-high resolution satellite imagery, magnetic, electromagnetic, and ground penetrating radar surveys of an archaeological site are visualized as a single data set within the six-sided (including floor) virtual reality (VR) room known as the StarCAVE. These independent data sets are combined in 3D space through their geospatial orientation to facilitate the detection of physical anomalies from signatures observed across various forms of surface and subsurface surveys. The data types are highly variant in nature and scale, ranging from 2D imagery to massive scale point clouds. As a reference base-layer a site elevation map was produced and used as to normalize and correlate the various forms of collected data within a single volume. Projecting this volume within the StarCAVE facilitates immersive and collaborative exploration of the virtual site at actual scale of the physical site.

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  1. California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Albert Yu-Min Lin, Philip P. Weber & Jürgen P. Schulze

  2. Geostudi Astier, via A. Nicolodi, 48, Livorno, 57121, Italy

    Alexandre Novo & Gianfranco Morelli

  3. Geophysical Archaeometry Laboratory, 20014 Gypsy Ln, Woodland Hills, CA, 91364, USA

    Dean Goodman

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  1. University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

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  2. NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

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  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

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  4. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

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  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA

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  6. HRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road, 90265-4797, Malibu, CA, USA

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  7. Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907-2021, IN, USA

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  8. Sandia National Laboratory, 87185, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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  9. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 70504, LA, USA

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  10. Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Francisco, CA, USA

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  11. Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

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  12. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94551-0808, Livermore, CA, USA

    Jiang Ming

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Lin, A.YM., Novo, A., Weber, P.P., Morelli, G., Goodman, D., Schulze, J.P. (2011). A Virtual Excavation: Combining 3D Immersive Virtual Reality and Geophysical Surveying. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24031-7_23

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