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Laser scanners for remote diagnostic and virtual fruition of cultural heritage

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The recent development of laser scanners in environmental diagnostics made possible to implement their prototypes for remote characterization of cultural heritage (CH) surfaces. Specific data analysis algorithms have been developed to handle large data set acquired in high resolution operation. Non-invasive, or at least micro-invasive methodologies applied on real CH targets have shown the possibility to obtain information on surface appearance, morphology and composition. The added value of optical and spectroscopic integrated sensors is discussed for some significant case studies addressed both to a deep knowledge of the artifacts (materials and methods of realization) and to their structural characterization.

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Recent developments and applications of prototypes was supported by the project COBRA funded by Latium region (lr13/2008 Project No. 1031). Former collaborations with Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro (ISCR), Sovrintendenza dell’Umbria and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) are gratefully acknowledged, to demonstrate the technique capabilities in the case studies here reported. Thanks are also due to Alessandro Danielis for participating to the RGB-ITR data analysis of the Orvieto arch and to Abigail Trujillo-Vazquez for participating the stratigraphic analysis of the painted and ceramic samples by ILS.

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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Photonic Science and Engineering on the Micro/Nano Scale.

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Fantoni, R., Almaviva, S., Caneve, L. et al. Laser scanners for remote diagnostic and virtual fruition of cultural heritage. Opt Quant Electron 49, 120 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-017-0952-4

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