Integration of Remote-Sensing Techniques for the Preventive Conservation of Paleolithic Cave Art in the Karst of the Altamira Cave

Bayarri Cayón, Vicente and Prada, Alfredo and García, Francisco and Díaz-González, Lucía M. and De Las Heras, Carmen and Castillo, Elena and Fatás, Pilar vicente.bayarri@uneatlantico.es, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED (2023) Integration of Remote-Sensing Techniques for the Preventive Conservation of Paleolithic Cave Art in the Karst of the Altamira Cave. Remote Sensing, 15 (4). p. 1087. ISSN 2072-4292

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Abstract

Rock art offers traces of our most remote past and was made with mineral and organic substances in shelters, walls, or the ceilings of caves. As it is notably fragile, it is fortunate that some instances remain intact—but a variety of natural and anthropogenic factors can lead to its disappearance. Therefore, as a valuable cultural heritage, rock art requires special conservation and protection measures. Geomatic remote-sensing technologies such as 3D terrestrial laser scanning (3DTLS), drone flight, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) allow us to generate exhaustive documentation of caves and their environment in 2D, 2.5D, and 3D. However, only its combined use with 3D geographic information systems (GIS) lets us generate new cave maps with details such as overlying layer thickness, sinkholes, fractures, joints, and detachments that also more precisely reveal interior–exterior interconnections and gaseous exchange; i.e., the state of senescence of the karst that houses the cave. Information of this kind is of great value for the research, management, conservation, monitoring, and dissemination of cave art.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: cultural heritage; rock art; geomatics; data processing; 3D terrestrial laser scanner; global navigation satellite systems; UAV photogrammetry; ground penetrating radar; cultural management; mapping
Subjects: Subjects > Engineering
Divisions: Europe University of Atlantic > Research > Scientific Production
Depositing User: Sr Bibliotecario
Date Deposited: 17 Feb 2023 08:25
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2024 11:51
URI: http://repositorio.funiber.org/id/eprint/5922

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