AN INTEGRATION OF CLOSE-RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND CAD SYSTEM FOR CULTURAL MONUMENTS: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS

摘要

An assessment of the contribution of digital photogrammetry and GIS to the surveying and documentation of cultural heritage objects is the focus of this paper. Can these relatively new technologies offer more than the analogue methods and manuscript archives of the past? This paper deals the initial stage of the research where it reviews modern photogrammetric and GIS approaches in recording and documenting of buildings, monuments and cultural sites. These approaches include digital image enhancement, digital rectification and restitution, feature extraction for the creation of 3-D GIS models from the photogrammetric record and the computer visualisation of cultural monuments. The paper also highlights the work progress where the photogrammetry and CAD/GIS can be utilised to support the reconstruction of the abbey of St. Avit Senieur in France.