Terrestrial Scanning / Archaeology & Cultural Heritage

Bam Citadel, Iran 23.09.2004

In the last days of the year 2003 a terrible earth quake afflicted Bam, Iran, (26.12.2003, 6.3 Richter Scale) leaving behind more than 50,000 casualties. Invited by the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organisation ICHO [www.iranmiras.org], Riegl LMS GmbH /Austria [www.riegl.com] and their Iranian agent, NPR Co. [www.nprco.com] performed a 3D-mapping of the greatest mud-brick and adobe complex of the world, the ancient Citadel of Bam (Arg-E-Bam), making use of a unique system integration of close range photogrammetry and laser scanning technology. The impressive results of the scanning campaign prove this method a highly efficient bi-technique whose capacities have yet to be fully discovered and exploited.