Geo-Spatial Data Generation and Terrestrial Scanning for 3D Reconstruction

Abstract: Digital reconstruction of heritage sites is in vogue in most of the developed countries especially in Europe which offers several such heritage sites to promote historical research, virtual tourism, restoration, reconstruction etc. Keeping this in view a Programme on Indian Digital Heritage (IDH) has been evolved by the Department of Science and Technology to capture the rich heritage of India on a digital platform using modern advanced technologies for reconstruction and recreating through ages and also to use the information for holistic analysis.
The project ‘Digital Geospatial data generation and Terrestrial Scanning for 3D Reconstruction of Heritage site at Hampi under the ‘Programme of IDH on Hampi’ aims to develop digital geo spatial database including digital terrain of the entire site, 3D Geodetic framework of the important heritage monuments through high resolution terrestrial scanning and Global Position system(GPS) location of heritage monuments. In this paper the project team presents the results of the Digital Elevation Model created using the data collected

Keywords: Indian Digital Heritage, Digital Elevation model, Terrestrial Laser scanning, Global Positioning System