Field season review of excavations at Iron Age fortress Mudabi, Karak, Jordan

1. Surveying FOR EXCAVATIONS at Mudabi:looking ahead to 2011 1 Now where’d we leave that darn rebar?...

2. If you like dirt, you’ll love the desert What we’ll cover… 1) Summary ‘09 Season 2) Equipment 3) Software / Mapping 4) Techy Specs 5) Tips 6) Future Possibilities 2

3. Existing maps 3

4. on site ’09 – Control network 4

5. Control points 5

6. Onsite ‘09 - Excavation grids 6

7. on site ’09 - Topography 7

8. On site ‘09 – shaded relief 8

9. 9 On site ‘09 – fortress cross sections

10. 10 equipment 5” Leica Total Station CE Data collector

11. Equipment Automatic Level 11

12. Software AutoCAD 2007 – electronic drawings, drafting Carlson SurvCE – electronic data collection, cogo and processing point codes ESRI ArcGIS – research, compile regional maps, generate tins, georeference photos Google Earth – aerial photography (attempted kite – didn’t fly) 12

13. Techy specs Units – metric Site coordinates – Palestine Grid/geodetic azimuth Geodetic Control – British Ordnance Survey Point #98, elevation = 989.782m Translation to UTM/GPS is possible Absolute accuracy estimated at 1m, relative accuracy estimated at 5cm 13

14. tips Drink lots of water; flavor/vita packs nice Wear rugged, long sleeved, loose fitting clothes Temps ranged from mid 60s to 100s (°F) Dust/sand/wind – protect face, optics, electronics Travel adapter AND converter essential; rechargeable AA batteries are nice; ditto thermometer. *Handheld GPS and 2-way radios nice if you can get them in-country* 14

15. Future possibilities Photo Modeling 15 Images courtesy of: photomodeler.com

16. Future possibilities Point cloud modeling Active laser scanning 16 Images courtesy of: http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/book

17. The future is close… 17 http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=3ae9a908-daf8-4589-a2a5-0c3e75b870c2

18. 18 problems or questions:paulhmabry@gmail.comBye now