Jakeline,

 

I can speak for my colleague, David Miller, who is involved in a three-year project using technology to improve the accuracy of our knowledge of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Right now Dr. Miller is on the Missouri River in a kayak with a gps system on board trying to refine what is known about the expedition's campsites. In preparation, he took a number of Missouri River Commission maps from around 1900, digitized them, made them transparent and then placed them on top of satelite imagery. Subsequently, he placed the satelite images on top of hillshade models to give relief to the images. He also performed some 3-D fly-throughs of the river valley. Some of the work is quite elegant and he has worked out some of the technical problems. He will be publishing some of this work next year, but you may wish to contact him at [log in to unmask] when he returns in mid-August.



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	From: Applications of Geographical Information Systems technology on behalf of J. Benavides 

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	Subject: acquistion historical material

	

	



	Dear People,

	

	I am currently performing some tests related with the effect of data acquisition

	methods specifically digital photography and scanning over the geometry of historical

	maps. On that subject I am interested to know about other researches exploring this

	topic or about international standards related with the procedure or technical

	specifications for the acquisition of historical material (maps??).

	

	1. Does anybody know any research in course or already finished, in relation with that

	topic?

	

	2. Does anybody know about international standards to apply for the taking of digital

	photographs/ scanning of historical maps?

	

	I will appreciate any advise you can give me about,

	

	Thanks in advance,

	

	Jakeline

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