@INPROCEEDINGS{3DARCH09:DSCGPVNP,
  author       = {Pierre Drap and Julien Seinturier and Jean-Christophe Chambelland and Gilles Gaillard and Hugo Pires and Guido Vannini and Michele Nucciotti and Elisa Pruno},
  title        = {Going To Shawbak (Jordan) and getting the data back: toward a 3D GIS dedicated to medieval archaeology},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 3rd ISPRS International Workshop 3D-ARCH 2009: "3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures"},
  year         = {2009},
  editor       = {Fabio Remondino and Sabry El-Hakim and Lorenzo Gonzo},
  pages        = {33--50},
  organization = {ISPRS},
  publisher    = {ISPRS Commission V - WG 4 },
  address      = {Trento, Italy},
  month        = {February},
  series       = {International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences},
  volume       = {XXXVIII-5/W1 },
  url          = {http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVIII/5-W1/pdf/drap_etal.pdf},
  abstract     = {The paper presents an interdisciplinary project which is a work in progress towards a 3D Geographical Information System (GIS) dedicated to Cultural Heritage with a specific focus application on the Castle of Shawbak, also known as the “Crac de Montréal”, one of the best preserved rural medieval settlements in the entire Middle East. We develop a set of tools for medieval archaeological analysis ranging from the production of traditional graphical documentation like orthophotos and low-resolution 3D models (VRML) to the use of 3D/2D GIS through the creation of centralized and exhaustive object storage tool both for archaeological and photogrammetric data. Using these tools archaeologists will be able to produce, store, visualize and manage both archaeological and 3D data, according to their needs. The Shawbak archaeological project is a specific and integrated project between medieval archaeological research, conservative restoration and site's valorization. Focusing mainly on stratigraphical analysis of upstanding structures provides archaeologists with a huge amount of data to collect on site and useful records that will be used to understand the structures from stratigraphical and technological point of views. The foundation stone for this project is the analysis of documents produced and used by archaeologists in order to identify specific archaeological requirements The first phase is to give archaeologists traditional photogrammetric tools so that they can be autonomous in producing graphical documents (taking photographs, photo orientation and traditional orthophoto generation). The second step is to develop a common model structure for both photogrammetric and archaeological data storage using a unique database and allowing to link archaeological data with 3D measurements. Specific photogrammetry tools dedicated to stone by stone measurement have been under development since 2000 to help archaeologists to easily produce photogrammetric surveys. These tools are now integrated in a more complex system which allows automatic production of 2D or 3D representations from archaeological database queries. The graphical 2D documents produced through this process look like the handmade drawings done by archaeologists using orthophotos. The 3D GIS is the last step of this chain and aims the automatic production of 3D models through archaeological database queries: these 3D models are in fact a graphical image of the database and at the same time the interface through which the user is able to modify it. This approach enables automatic 3D thematic representation and new archaeological analysis through bidirectional-links between 3D representation and archaeological data. All these developments are written in Java within Arpenteur framework. (Arpenteur, 2008)}
}