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

Ebert这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目关注的是目前缺乏综合技术和方法，通过这些技术和方法，岩石艺术数据可以完整而准确地三维记录，在三维数据库中进行管理，不仅可以分析单个岩石艺术元素的形式特征，还可以分析人物之间的相互关系，放置他们的岩石，以及相关的地点，地点和观点。该研究探讨了开发一个集成系统的可行性，用于岩石艺术数据记录，管理和分析，包括内场三维数字化，使用电子距离测量（EDM）和全球定位系统（GPS）进行控制和现场测绘，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，计算机摄影测量以及模拟和数字摄影等附加技术辅助，所有这些都通过专门设计的软件和方法联系起来。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方向的评估。还将调查将现成技术和改良技术，包括硬件和软件结合起来的适当性和可行性。最后，将审查专门设计用于连接系统组件的软件的性质，以及将这些组件作为一个综合系统使用的方法。系统组成及集成软件和方法将在岩画数据现场情况下进行初步测试。岩石艺术研究人员、文化资源管理者、美洲原住民团体、人类学家、艺术史学家和其他岩石艺术和岩石艺术数据用户——在美国和世界范围内——将受益于这些方法的发展。另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.