期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2007
卷号：XXXVI-5/W47
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：From 1997 to 2007 an international effort involving research groups both in US and Italy, developed a virtual model of ancient Rome, as it appeared in 320 AD. The primary purpose of the project was to visually present theories and hypotheses about how the capital of the Roman Empire appeared at the peak of its development. The model is therefore a representation of the state of our knowledge (or lack of it) about the urban topography of ancient Rome. In order to create the model several topographic and historical sources were used. The standard sources such as ancient plans, references in historical texts, archaeological studies of past scholars, have been used for the well documented monumental buildings, such as the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. For most of the vernacular architecture (i.e. the small "filler" buildings in between the monumental ones), no many sources are available. Thus the virtual model have been inspired by the famous 1:250 physical model "Plastico di Roma Antica" conserved at "Museo della Civiltà Romana", in Rome that have been surveyed at high resolution and transformed in a digital model suitable for standard virtual reality applications. This paper overstress this point of the whole project, describing the process from the physical to the digital representation of the city
关键词：Laser Radar; Sensor integration; 3D modeling; Virtual Reality; Wiki-modeling
