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1. FOR TRACK 13:
MANAGEMENT, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, AND COST
PAPER 13.0803:
FROM STEM TO STEAM:
AEROSPACE PARTNERSHIPS WITH CULTURAL
HERITAGE DIAGNOSTICS
SESSION 13.08: PROMOTING (AND PROVOKING) CULTURAL CHANGE

2. FROM: SF & SILICON VALLEY
NOW: IN SAN DIEGO
FIELDWORK: MEDITERRANEAN BASIN
ASHLEY M. RICHTER:
A VISUAL BIOGRAPHY OF AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
EDUCATION: UNITED KINGDOM

3. BASIC PREMISE
AEROSPACE & ARCHAEOLOGY NEED TO:
* START NEW DIALOGUES OF COOPERATION TO
BUILD, REFINE, AND USE DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING & VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES
*FIND NEW WAYS TO MERGE THEIR ENGINEERING EDUCATION GOALS TO BETTER ENGAGE
THE PUBLIC AND THE NEXT GENERATIONS OF ENGINEERS
*ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYING NEEDS TO STOP SCAVENGING & RAIDING TECHNOLOGY
& START CONTRIBUTING TO ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, AND EDUCATION

4. THERE IS SIGNIFICANT OVERLAP BETWEEN THE GOALS OF
AEROSPACE & “CULTURAL HERITAGE DIAGNOSTICS”
*Spatial &
Temporal
Visualization &
Analysis
*Surveying
*Remote Multimedia Processing
& Interdisciplinary Collaboration
*Science Education
& Policy
AEROSPACE CULTURAL
HERITAGE
DIAGNOSTICSMacrocosmic
Spatialities
&
Timescales
Earth
&
Cultural Time Only

5. AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL HERITAGE
DIAGNOSTICS
GENERAL DEFINITION:
Employing Analytical Technologies to study and engage with culturally relevant
artifacts and landscape
DATA
COLLECTION
TECHNOLOGIES
DATA
VISUALIZATION
TECHNOLOGIES

6. THE CENTER OF INTERDISCIPLINARY
SCIENCE FOR ART, ARCHITECTURE, &
ARCHAEOLOGY

7. NEW FIELD TOOLS &
METHODOLOGIES
NEW VISUALIZATION AND
COLLABORATIVE
ANNOTATION SYSTEMS
NEW PROCESSING
TECHNIQUES TO COMBINE
AND ANALYZE DATA
NEW SYSTEMS FOR
ENGAGING PEOPLE WITH THE
PAST

8. BREAKING DOWN BOUNDARIES:
• Between Academic
Departments
• Between Academic
Disciplines
• Between Academia &
Industry & Government
• Between Expert & Non-
Expert
• Between Science & the
Public

9. REFINING WORKFLOWS & EQUIPMENT
THROUGH PRACTICAL TESTING & TRAINING IN
THE FIELD
Engineers & Computer Scientists in the field
Social Scientists &
Humanities Scholars
in the Processing Lab
THE
FEED
BACK
LOOP
Engineers & Computer Scientists in the Lab
Social Scientists &
Humanities Scholars
in the Field

10. (Note the implicit logistical workflow to any kind
of ‘field work’)
To focus on Interdisciplinary &
Collaborative Workflows that can be
engaged with on all levels by
experts & non-experts

11. ACQUISITION
• Digital Data Collection Tools
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Analytical Diagnostics

12. ACQUISITION
• Digital Data Collection Tools
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Analytical Diagnostics
CURATION
• Data Storage
• Geo-Spatial Mapping
• Augmentation
• Community Data Bases

13. ACQUISITION
• Digital Data Collection Tools
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Analytical Diagnostics
CURATION
• Data Storage
• Geo-Spatial Mapping
• Augmentation
• Community Data Bases
ANALYSIS
• Modeling & Simulation
• Visual Analytics
• Crowd Sourcing
• 3D Visualization
• Cultural Analytics

14. ACQUISITION
• Digital Data Collection Tools
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Analytical Diagnostics
CURATION
• Data Storage
• Geo-Spatial Mapping
• Augmentation
• Community Data Bases
DISSEMINATION
• Print Publishing
• Open Access
• Citizen Science
• Cyber-Infrastructure
ANALYSIS
• Modeling & Simulation
• Visual Analytics
• Crowd Sourcing
• 3D Visualization
• Cultural Analytics

15. LAYERED REALITIES
Data Stratigraphy
which can be Viewed in
Different Augmented
& Annotated Realities

16. CONCEPT STARTED WITH MULTISPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF PAINTINGS
AND HAS TRANSITIONED TO LANDSCAPES

18. EXAMPLES:
JORDAN
Khirbat Negieb Asemer
Khirbat en-Nahas
Khirbat Faynan
Wadi Fidan 61
Petra
(and many more….)

19. EXAMPLES: ITALY: THE BAPTISTERY OF ST.
JOHN

20. EXAMPLES: ITALY: PALAZZO VECCHIO

21. EXAMPLES: SANDCASTLES FOR SCIENCE

22. PUTTING MORE ENGINEERS OUT IN THE FIELD
*TESTING OUT THEIR DESIGNS IN REAL-WORLD, TIME-PRESSURED, THINK ON YOUR FEET INSTANCES
WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY COLLECTS NEEDED DATASETS
*COLLABORATIVE DESIGN WITH INPUT FROM REAL-WORLD USERS

23. PUBLIC INTEREST IN ENGINEERING
*STEM to STEAM Education Potential Where
STEAM is not just STEM with Art- but with
Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

24. Cultural Heritage Diagnostics IS made up of scavenged Aerospace pieces and can be an exciting
public facet of engagement for Engineering

25. COOL IDEA RIGHT?
ITS BEEN PARTIALLY PROPOSED BEFORE:
SO WHY DOESN’T IT WORK IN PRACTICE?
Chinese Academy of Sciences’ International
Centre on the Use of Space Technologies for
Cultural and Natural Heritage (CEODE)
established in 2011
UNESCO-European Space Agency (ESA)
Space for Heritage Open Initiative
established in 2003
Archaeological Remote Sensing & Space
Archaeology with the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)

26. FAILURES IN
COMMUNICATION, FOLLOW-THROUGH,
& EXPANSION

27. This is what
we have now
These are
pop culture
symbols of
what we’re
building
towards
IF WE’RE EVER GOING TO HAVE THE SCI-FI
TECH- WE NEED TO MOVE ON TOGETHER

28. TO PRESERVE OUR PAST WHILE ENGINEERING OUR FUTURE
VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY & FIELD
WORK COULD BE THE KEY TRANSLATION
LANGUAGE TO BRIDGE GAPS AND BUILD
BETTER

29. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
•The National Science Foundation (NSF) Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
project for Training, Research and Education in Engineering for Cultural Heritage Diagnostics (TEECH)
• The Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (CISA3)
• The California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2)
•The Anthropology Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
•The Cultural Heritage Authorities of Italy, Jordan, Cyprus, & Greece
•My fellow CISA3 Asgardians: Vid Petrovic, Tom Wypych, David Vanoni, and Andrew Huyhn
•My CISA3 colleagues, esp: John Mangan, Joe DeBlasio, David Srour, Jason Kimball
•My CISA3 Undergraduate Research Innovation Internship Students- especially James M. Darling and Aliya Hoff
•Professors Thomas E. Levy (Anthropology), Falko Kuester (Computer Science & Engineering), Maurizio Seracini (EmerituS
Engineering)
•The fabulous Alex Hubenko and amazing Vanessa Pool

30. Thank you Aerospace Audience!!