Evaluation of Shapecapture as a Heritage Documentation and Monitoring Tool

Increasingly, more tools are available for the documentation of heritage assets. Significant time is often required to evaluate a particular tool for such factors as precision, efficiency, cost and possible cost savings in the context of project delivery. This presentation will examine these questions in the case of Shapecapture. Shapecapture is a photogrammetric software package that uses digital non-metric images for documentation and monitoring applications. The software is capable of producing 3D coordinates, 3D models with texture mapping, camera calibration data from a single image, automatic target extraction, stereo matching of selected points and pixel matching. The presentation will focus primarily on the production of 3D coordinates, automatic target extraction and stereo matching, using three case studies to illustrate the respective outcomes of each scenario when used for recording and monitoring applications. 1.0 HERITAGE RECORDING OF FORT HENRY NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE OF CANADA.