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来模拟、可视化和分析历史和古代遗址。该提案涉及四个主要的科学组成部分来支持这项研究。首先，我们提出了新的方法来创建复杂的、三维的、逼真的大型场地模型。这包括一个移动机器人传感系统，可以作为一个大规模的智能传感设备使用。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对考古遗址中丰富的地下信息进行建模。第三，我们将开发新的数据库技术来编目和访问一个站点的结构、文物、对象和历史参考文献。这将显著提高用户查询和分析网站信息的能力。第四，我们创建了一个可穿戴增强现实系统，通过叠加图形和声音向移动用户展示地理注册信息。我们将扩展这一系统，以创建一类新的信息可视化系统，该系统集成了3-D地上和地下模型、2-D图像、文本和其他基于网络的资源，以注释物理环境。我们将应用这一系统来支持该领域的科学家，以及允许现场和远程参观历史和古代遗址。这项研究将利用当地的一个试验台，纽约市的圣约翰大教堂，以及在埃及达赫勒霍伊斯进行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；提供主动学习的绝佳机会；培养我们在历史背景下探索、分析、批判性评价和解释物质文化的能力。挑战在于如何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巧，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，我们可以抵制用新技术复制我们用其他方式成功完成的诱惑，而是扩大学习的可能性。通过语境学习，该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。这个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.