Temple of Bel, Palmyra, LiDAR Derivatives

Captured with an unknown Faro laser scanner in 2010 by the Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara's Archaeological Mission to Palmyra. The main goals of the original capture was to map an excavation to the east of the temple, which is why so many scans were done on that side. This dataset is lacking critical metadata and is made available only as a data derivative. Though 29 LiDAR scans are separated, they are lacking the centerpoints and associated images. Some contain point normals, some do not. some contain intensity values, some do not. Only 2 scans were taken at a high resolution, beneath the ornate main portico of the temple. A complete merged model is provided,apparently generated using mesh-based workflows in Geomagic software.

Though lacking critical metadata, this model still represents perhaps the most metrologically sound representation of the site, now lying in ruins.