SBIR Phase I: Rock Art Data Recording, Management and Analysis: An Integrated System Incorporating 3-dimensional Digitizing, Geographic Information Systems & Photogramme

9560452 Ebert这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目专注于目前缺乏完整和准确的技术和方法来完整和准确地记录岩石艺术数据，在三维数据库中进行管理，并不仅从单个岩石艺术元素的形式特征方面进行分析，而且从图形、它们所在的岩石以及相关的场地、地点和景观之间的相互关系进行分析。这项研究探讨了开发一个集成的岩画数据记录、管理和分析系统的可行性，该系统包括内业三维数字化，使用电子测距(EDM)和全球定位系统(GPS)进行控制和现场制图，使用计算机辅助绘图(CAD)和地理信息系统(GIS)技术进行数据输入和数据库管理，以及计算机摄影测量和其他技术附件，如模拟和数字摄影，所有这些都通过专门设计的软件和方法连接在一起。研究目标包括对当前数据用户需求的详尽调查，以及对这种系统将提供的新数据可能性和理论指导的评估。还将调查整合现成技术和改进的技术，包括硬件和软件的适当性和可行性。最后，将审查专门为连接系统组件而设计的软件的性质，以及将这些组件用作统一系统的方法。系统组件、集成软件和方法将在岩石艺术数据现场进行初步测试。岩石艺术研究人员、文化资源经理、美国原住民团体、人类学家、艺术历史学家和其他岩石艺术和岩石艺术数据用户--在美国和世界各地--将从这种方法的发展中受益。另外一个相关的研究和社会关注领域，涂鸦研究和控制，提供了另一个潜在的市场。

9560452 Ebert This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project focuses on the current lack of integrated techniques and methods by which rock art data can be completely and accurately recorded three-dimensionally, managed within a three-dimensional database, and analyzed with respect not only to formal features of individual rock art elements, but also to interrelationships among figures, the rock on which they are placed, and associated sites, places, and views. The research investigates the feasibility of developing an integrated system for rock art data recording, management, and analysis incorporating infield three-dimensional digitizing, the use of electronic distance measurement (EDM) and global positioning systems (GPS) for control and site mapping, computer-assisted drawing (CAD) and geographic information systems (GIS) technologies for data input and database management, and computerized photogrammetry and such additional technical adjuncts as analog and digital photography, all linked by specially designed software and methods. Research objectives include an exhaustive survey of current data user needs as well as an assessment of new data possibilities and theoretical directions that such a system would provide. The appropriateness and feasibility of integrating both off-the-shelf and modified technologies, including hardware and software, will also be investigated. Finally, the nature of software specifically designed to link systems components, as well as methods by which these will all be used as a consolidated system, will be examined. Systems components and integrative software and methods will be preliminarily tested in rock art data field situations. Rock art researchers, cultural resource managers, Native American groups, anthropologists, art historians, and other rock art and rock art data users-- in the United States and worldwide--will benefit from the development of such methods. An additional, related field of study and social concern, graffiti studies an d control, offers another potential market.