3D-GIS as a Platform for Visual Analysis: Investigating a Pompeian House

Giacomo Landeschi; Nicolo Dell'Unto; Karin Lundqvist; Daniele Ferdani; Danilo Marco Campanaro; Anne-Marie Leander Touati

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.11.002

3D-GIS as a Platform for Visual Analysis: Investigating a Pompeian House

Giacomo Landeschi, Nicolo Dell'Unto, Karin Lundqvist, Daniele Ferdani, Danilo Marco Campanaro, Anne-Marie Leander Touati

CNR: National Research Council of Italy

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Abstract

The aim of the present work is to introduce an innovative framework for employing 3D-GIS as an exploratory platform to perform visual analysis. Such a methodology is aimed at detecting patterns of visibility to simulate the past human perception of specific categories of artifacts placed inside a virtually reconstructed three-dimensional space. As a case study, the house of Caecilius Iucundus in Pompeii (regio V, insula 1, entrances 23 and 26) was chosen and two media of visual communication, a painting and a graffito were tested to make an assessment of their visual impact on hypothetical observers. The approach consists of a vector-based line-of-sight (LOS) analysis, now available as an integral component of the 3D-analyst toolkit of the ESRI ArcGIS 10.x software package. This toolkit allowed us to perform the entire process inside a GIS environment, without splitting the tasks among different software platforms.
It was thus possible to detect a significant difference in terms of visibility among the observed objects.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	103-113
Journal	Journal of Archaeological Science
Volume	65
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.11.002
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Archaeology

Keywords

Visualscape analysis
3D GIS
GIS
Classical Archaeology
Archaeology
Digital Archaeology

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Space and Movement in a Pompeian house: the contribution of 3D GIS
Landeschi, G.
2016/01/01 → …
Project: Research
Exploring Pompeian Graffiti in 3D Space
Landeschi, G.
2015/01/01 → 2015/12/31
Project: Research
3D GIS: a Research Platform for the Development of New Research Methodologies for the Documentation and Analysis of Archaeological Sites.
Campanaro, D. M., Landeschi, G., Dell'Unto, N., Larsson, C. & Lindgren, S.
2015/01/01 → 2017/12/31
Project: Research

Laboratoriet för Digital Arkeologi DARK Lab
Nicolo Dell'unto (Manager) & Martin Hansson (Manager)
Archaeology
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International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World
Karin Lundqvist (Role not specified)
2014 Sept 29 → 2014 Oct 1
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3D-GIS as a Platform for Visual Analysis: Investigating a Pompeian House

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Space and Movement in a Pompeian house: the contribution of 3D GIS

Exploring Pompeian Graffiti in 3D Space

3D GIS: a Research Platform for the Development of New Research Methodologies for the Documentation and Analysis of Archaeological Sites.

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International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World

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