ITR/AP+IM: Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites

我们建议为研究人员和学生开发计算工具，以建模，可视化和分析历史和古代遗址。这项建议涉及四个主要的科学组成部分，以支持这项研究。首先，我们提出了一种新的方法来创建复杂的、三维的、逼真的大型场地模型。这包括一个移动的机器人传感系统，它可以作为一个大规模的智能传感设备。其次，我们建议开发新的方法来准确有效地成像地下数据。这些方法特别适合于模拟考古遗址丰富的地下信息。第三，我们将开发新的数据库技术，以编目和访问遗址的结构，文物，对象和历史参考。这将大大提高用户查询和分析网站信息的能力。第四，我们已经开发了一个可穿戴的增强现实系统，用于向移动的用户展示地理信息，使用叠加的图形和声音。我们将扩展该系统，创建一个新的信息可视化系统，集成三维地上和地下模型，二维图像，文本和其他基于网络的资源来注释物理环境。我们将应用该系统来支持该领域的科学家，以及允许现场和远程旅游的历史和古代遗址。这项研究将利用当地的一个地点，即纽约市的圣约翰大教堂，以及埃及达赫莱赫绿洲的一次独特而重要的考古发掘。该项目将吸引学生和公众对世界遗产的研究;提供一个主动学习的特殊机会;并培养我们在历史背景下探索，分析，批判性评估和解释物质文化的能力。挑战在于将培养这些技能的现场体验带到课堂和公众中。通过批判性探究和各种技术，教师和学生可以重建物质文化的例子，以发展对过去的复杂理解。通过这种方式，我们可以抵制诱惑，用新技术复制我们用其他手段成功完成的事情，而是扩大学习的可能性。通过情境学习，本项目将汇集各个领域的主要资源，并将社会科学从课堂引入历史环境。本项目有望重新定义技术、教师研究和课程内容之间的关系。最重要的是，它将把这些信息传播给尽可能广泛的受众。

e are proposing to develop computational tools for researchersand students to model, visualize, and analyze historic and ancientsites. This proposal addresses four major scientific componentsto support this research. First, we are proposing new methodsof creating complex, 3-D, photorealistic models of large sites.This includes a mobile robot sensing system that can be used asan intelligent sensing device over a large scale. Second, we areproposing to develop new methods to image below-ground data accuratelyand efficiently. These methods are especially suited to modelingthe wealth of subsurface information at archaeological sites.Third, we will be developing new database technology to catalogand access a site's structures, artifacts, objects, and historicalreferences. This will significantly improve a user's ability toquery and analyze a site's information. Fourth, we have createda wearable augmented reality system for presenting georegisteredinformation to mobile users, using overlaid graphics and sound.We will extend this system to create a new class of informationvisualization systems that integrate 3-D above- and below-groundmodels, 2-D images, text and other web-based resources to annotatethe physical environment We will apply this system to supportscientists in the field, as well to allow on-site and remote toursof historic and ancient sites. The research will utilize a localtestbed, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City,and a unique and important archaeological excavation at the DakhlehOasis in Egypt. The project will attract students and the publicto the study of world heritage; provide an exceptional opportunityfor active learning; and develop our ability to explore, analyze,critically evaluate and interpret material culture within historicalcontexts. The challenge is to bring the on-site experiences thatdevelop these skills to the classroom and the public in general.Through critical inquiry and a variety of techniques, teachersand students can reconstruct examples of material culture to developa complex understanding of the past. In this way, we can resistthe temptation to replicate with new technologies what we havedone successfully with other means and instead expand the possibilitiesfor learning. Through learning in context, this project will bringtogether the primary sources of various fields and draw the socialsciences out of the classroom into the historical milieu. Thisproject will hopefully redefine the relationships among technology,faculty research and curriculum content. Most important, it willdisseminate this information to as wide an audience as possible.