ISPRS WG II/6

Commissions

Cultural Heritage Data Acquisition and Processing

Mission

The main objective of the ISPRS Working Group II/6 is to promote state-of-the-art measurement and characterization techniques of cultural heritage assets. We also aim to generate innovative metric documentation strategies that contribute to the enrichment of the scientific community and international organisations committed to the preservation and maintenance of humanity’s legacy. To this aim, the working group promotes not only multi-data source integration and techniques that seek to remotely study cultural heritage scenarios (architectural elements, archaeological scenarios, natural landscapes, etc.), objects/artifacts and industrial heritage (buildings, monuments, excavations, etc.), but also the latest metric documentation techniques and multi-temporal studies of these types of scenarios as well as modern techniques for 3D cultural heritage data management such as HBIM (Heritage Building Information Models)

This working group is committed to innovation, automation, and accuracy in the digital documentation of cultural heritage. In addition, the group aims at collaborating with international groups closely related to the ISPRS that address this mission, actively participating and organising events to exchange and transmit this technical knowledge about heritage documentation. CIPA Heritage Documentation, as a joint society under ISPRS and ICOMOS, is one of the main venues of collaboration for this WG.

Working Group Officers
Chair
	Susana Del Pozo TIDOP Research Unit Higher Polytechnic School of Avila Caleros ovens, 50. University of Salamanca Avila SPAIN +34 663 170597 s.p.aguilera@usal.es
Co-Chair
	Fulvio Rinaudo Laboratory “Geomatics for Cultural Heritage” (G4CH) Department of Architecture & Design Politecnico di Torino Viale A. Mattioli, 39, 10125 Torino ITALY +39 331 6714787 fulvio.rinaudo@polito.it
Co-Chair
	Charalampos Georgiadis School of Civil Engineering The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Univ. Box 465, GR 54124 Thessaloniki GREECE +30 2310 996171 harrisg@civil.auth.gr
Secretary
	Lorenzo Teppati Losé Laboratory “Geomatics for Cultural Heritage” (G4CH) Department of Architecture & Design Politecnico di Torino Viale A. Mattioli, 39, 10125 Torino ITALY +39 3460171863 lorenzo.teppati@polito.it
Supporters
Supporter
	Arnadi Dhestaratri Murtiyoso FORM-ITES ETH Zürich Universitätstrasse 16 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND +41 44 632 37 47 arnadidhestaratri.murtiyoso@usys.ethz.ch

Terms of Reference

Innovative strategies and solutions in the collection and processing of data for the documentation of cultural heritage
Automation strategies in data processing
Multi-source data fusion
Remote sensing in cultural heritage
Cultural heritage monitoring
Metrics and accuracy in cultural heritage
Cultural heritage modelling towards HBIM
Virtual and augmented reality
Open-source promotion
Low-cost merging strategies
Cultural heritage data acquisition standards
Establishment of good practice protocols