Our technical director, Alistair Carty, will be speaking at the Renfrewshire Local History Forum on Thursday 10th January, 2008 with the snappy titled “Zapped! Scanning sites by Laser” (not our title!). The talk will cover a range of subjects from extremely detailed close-range artefact scanning up to scanning huge Roman forts and castles.The talk is at the YMCA, New Street, Paisley, Scotland at 19:30 on 10th January 2008. More information is available at the RLHF website. 

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After many positive comments at World of Geomatics 2006, we’ve decided to release our showreel animation for general download. The movie is encoded in AVI format with the DiVX4.12 codec (which can be downloaded for free for Windows and Mac). The filesize is 27.2Mb.

The animation can be downloaded from this link.

The animation shows datasets from:

1. Provan Hall, Glasgow (National Trust for Scotland, Terrestrial LiDAR scanning)
2. Avebury World Heritage Site (National Trust/English Heritage, Airborne LiDAR)
3. Knowlton Henge, Dorset (English Heritage, Terrestrial LiDAR scanning)
4. “Mephistopheles” Wedgewood Figurine (Potteries Museum and Art Gallery/Hothouse, Close-Range Scanning)
5. Rievaulx Abbey (English Heritage, Terrestrial LiDAR)

Thanks to all our clients for permission to use the datasets and to Headland Archaeology for the illustration work on Provan Hall.

Avebury: Viewing south towards Silbury Hill and West Kennet Avenue

"Mephistopheles" Wedgewood Figurine

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Once again, Archaeoptics will be exhibiting at World of Geomatics at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry on the 29th/30th March 2006.

We will be displaying our usual mind-blowing array of visuals generated from some of our latest 3D laser scanning work both at close-range, terrestrial and airborne LiDAR levels of detail.

Our Technical Director, Alistair Carty, is also presenting a paper on the use of 3D laser scanning technology within the cultural heritage and archaeology sectors at the M3 Conference which runs alongside the exhibition.

We will be at Stand #16, so please drop by and say hello!

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Archaeoptics are pleased to announce their presence at the National Archaeology Day at Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire on Sunday 17th July 2005. We have recently undertaken some structural monitoring work at Rievaulx and, in conjunction with English Heritage, will show the results of this work and demonstrate our Mensi GS200 laser scanner at this event.

3D Scanning at Rievaulx Abbey

Flying Buttress 3D Scans

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