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solutions and improvements to the entire process.
Together with the clients and conservators from
regional Institutes for the Protection of the Natural
and Cultural Heritage, we are building an
increasingly more comprehensive system of
documentation which will be breifly presented
below.
3. DEVELOPMENTAL WORK
Our development in the above mentioned projets is
oriented into:
• teamwork on projects
• promotion of photogammetry in the humanities
• production of technologically advanced forms
of documentation
• preparation of recommendations for standards
3.1 Teamwork on projects
Professionals from various technical and humanities
fields meet in this work, therefore at least a general
knowledge of several fields is required from
participants. The extent, content and form of the
products are agreed with the conservators. Various
options are presented and we attempt to find the
best possible solution together. The structures differ
in their external appearance, condition, type of work
required, etc., therefore the procedures and products
used are never competely the same. Sometimes it is
also necessary to harmonize various work methods
on a single project. The success of such cooperation
has been demonstrated in the implementation of the
Tito Square project in Koper and professionally
coordinated by the Intermunicipal Institute for the
Protection of the Natural and Cultural Heritage,
Piran, in which photogrammetric, georadar and
thermographic measurements were geolocated in a
unified form. We were able to compare the products
directly and interesting results were obtained. For
example: the photogrammetrically evaluated
damage to the pavement matched the georadar
interpretation of findings below the surface. The
project was presented at an international conference
of the ICAP (International Committee on
Architectural Photogrammetry) in Goteborg (Gu ek
et al, 1997).
3.2 Promotion of photogrammetry in humanities
in Slovenia
Together with the Cultural Heritage Office of the
Republic of Slovenia we have thus far prepared two
exhibitions at the Ljubljana Information Centre, the
first one in 1996 (Documenting of the Cultural
Heritage) and the second one in first exhibition, a
round table discussion was organized about
problems in documenting structures which are part
of the cultural heritage. Here, for the first time in
Slovenia, representatives of different professions
discussed this matter publicly. A thematic issue of a
journal issued by the Cultural Heritage Office of the
Republic of Slovenia of the Ministry of Culture was
titeled »Photogrammetry as a Method of
Documenting Cultural Heritage«. A film (VHS, 15
minutes) entiteled The Socerb Castle - Preservation
of a Cultural Monument was shown at the opening
of the second exhibition, at which we presented an
example of the work of conservators and
ph otogram m etr i sts.
3.3 Production of technologically advanded
forms of documentation
This topic is fairly extensive, therefore only the
main developmental phases and achievements will
be described. About three years ago we focused our
work into 3D production of documentation of
objects of cultural heritage. Today we find that our
decision was correct, because trends around the
world are identical (Kraus, 1997). Development was
based on high-power personal computers and the
available software (AutoCAD among others), to
which we added our own programs. The first such
program was named 3D (Jane i , 1996) and it was
later upgraded and renamed ARCHOS. This
program enables us to make spatial models from
photogrammetric and geodetic data about it. The
basic principle employed in making models is to
preserve to the greatest possible extent the level of
accuracy of the capture of the original spatial data.
Our development thus went from the first attempts
at modelling individual facades and the production
of wireframe models and surface models to photo
models. We place the highest priority on metrical
quality, but visualisation contributed to greater
attractiveness and a clearer presentation. A few
interesting projects are presented below.
3.4 Preparation of recommendations for
standards
Without consistently documented procedured and
organization of photogrammetric data and results,
there is a risk of loss of information or data abuse.
Occasionally, incomplete documentation is