Tiber Valley Virtual Museum: 3D landscape reconstruction in the orientalising period, North of Rome: A methodological approach proposal

Author

Pietroni, Eva ; Palombini, Augusto ; Di Ioia, Marco ; Sanna, Valentina ; Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Antonia

Author_Institution

Inst. of Technol. Appl. to Cultural Heritage, Rome, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 28 2013-Nov. 1 2013

Firstpage

223

Lastpage

230

Abstract

This paper discusses a multidisciplinary methodology for the 3D reconstruction of the hypothesized ancient landscape along the Tiber Valley North of Rome in the 8th century AD . As part of the CNR-ITABC Tiber Valley Virtual Museum project´ we used quantitative evaluation of geological and ecological data´ historical´ archaeological and demographic information. Moving from theory and literature on spatial archeology´ the project is implemented through advanced raster algebra operations in GRASS-GIS´ output to maps which are then imported in the VUE terrain engine for photorealistic 3D landscape generation.

Keywords

archaeology; demography; ecology; geographic information systems; geology; museums; terrain mapping; virtual reality; 3D hypothesized ancient landscape reconstruction; CNR-ITABC Tiber Valley Virtual Museum; GRASS-GIS; Tiber Valley North of Rome; VUE terrain engine; advanced raster algebra operations; archaeological information; demographic information; orientalising period; photorealistic 3D landscape generation; quantitative ecological data evaluation; quantitative geological data evaluation; spatial archeology; Proposals; Three-dimensional displays; 3D reconstruction of the potential past landscape; Virtual Museums; multidisciplinary approach; spatial archaeology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage), 2013

Conference_Location

Marseille

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3168-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6744758

Filename

6744758