Delphi Archaeological Site

Captured using by balloon photography, 96 images over the central site.

Part of the Delphi4Delphi project:
Liritzis, Ioannis, George Pavlidis, Spyros Vosynakis, Anestis Koutsoudis, Pantelis Volonakis, Nikos Petrochilos, Matthew D. Howland, Brady Liss, and Thomas E. Levy. “Delphi4Delphi: First Results of the Digital Archaeologyinitiative for Ancient Delphi, Greece.” Antiquity 90, no. 354 (2016): e4. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.187.

The main goal of the Delphi4Delphi project is to capture detailed 3D images of the major archaeological monuments at Delphi and artefacts in the Delphi Archaeological Museum in order to contribute to the 3D reconstruction of the sanctuary in support of research, conservation and tourism.

Two types of digital-photography-based recording systems were used in the 2015 season. The first method was SfM. This is a technique of spectral documentation (usually typical optical imaging), and refers to the process of making 3D structures from 2D image sequences. This constitutes recovering a scene's depth (the dimension that is not captured in a single typical 2D photo), and in recording it in a 3D data format.