ENGS 89/90 Reports
Degree Program
B.E.
Year of Graduation
2019
Sponsor
Peter Cobb, Hong Kong, China
Project Advisor
Ryan J. Halter
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
Winter 3-1-2019
Abstract
Archaeological digs typically last up to a few months and can produce up to 2000 sherds of pottery a day. Archaeologists cannot legally return home with their findings, so they must document them at the dig site. Current methods of documenting sherds are costly, time-consuming, and have low throughput in terms of sherds documented. Thus this team has aimed to create a scanner capable of collecting data at a rate of about one minute per sherd, allowing the user to scan 500 sherds over a 10 hour work day. Ideally, the scanner should produce 3D models of the sherds consistently at 0.35mm accuracy, and cost no more than $1500. The processing of data can be done off-site, thus the system must upload the data to cloud storage, where a program may later retrieve the data to auto-process the models such that artificial holders and background objects can be removed with limited human interaction. Agisoft Photoscan is used to reconstruct the model following photogrammetry practices.
Level of Access
Restricted: Campus/Dartmouth Community Only Access
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Yu, Zoe; Teipel, Jessica E.; Leonor, Joseph P.; Holgado, Julia A.; and Zhang, Zhuofan, "3D Scanning of Pottery Sherds for Archaeology" (2019). ENGS 89/90 Reports. 8.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/engs89_90/8
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