March 2024
ENGINEER organises the upcoming event on 3D digital Documentation of the Past: Paradata, Metadata and Data in 3D Cultural Heritage
The UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage, in cooperation with the Earth Observation Research lab (EOCult), the Mechanical Engineering Design & Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at the CY University of Technology, the EU CLARIAH-CY research infrastructure, the ARTEST and CREAMS projects, the CY-Eureka3D competence center in Digital Heritage, the EU Project Digital Europe EUreka3D, as well as the Connecting-RPF and the EU HE Engineer are organising a unique Webinar dedicated to the topic of...
TV appearance on ANT1 national channel
Earlier today, the project coordinator, Dr. Athos Agapiou, was invited on “Mera Mesimeri” TV show of ANT1 national channel upon his inclusion amongst the most influencial authors (top 3) in the field of geoinformatics on cultural heritage according to the Bibliometric analysis of GIS applications in heritage studies based on Web of Science from 1994 to 2023. During his appearance on the TV show, Dr. Agapiou gave a brief overview of the recent trends in the aforementioned field.February 2024
Cyprus Regional Development Project – Press release
Members of the ENGINEER team have participated at the Cyprus Regional Development Project (CRDP) of the Honor Frost Foundation (HFF). This project aims to explore the maritime cultural resources of the island of Cyprus and develop an integrated approach to recording archaeology. It is a partnership with colleagues from the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), and MarEA project (Universities of Ulster and Southampton, UK) and works closely with other experts in Cyprus, as well...
Findings of a (global) bibliometric study on Geoinformatics applications for cultural heritage
According to the findings of a recent study published in the prestigious scientific journal Heritage Science*, of the Springer publishing house, Associate Professor Athos Agapiou (Coordinator of the ENGINEER project) is among the three researchers worldwide whose research and related publications receive extensive attention and reports from the scientific community, in matters related to Geoinformatics applications for cultural heritage. Find more information about this study here: Huang, Y. Bibliometric analysis of GIS applications in heritage studies based on Web of Science...
ENGINEER presentation at Masters Course
ENGINEER partners from POLIMI (Profs. Augelli and Cuca) presented our project and the work implemented to the students of the master course “SURVEY ADVANCED TECHNIQUES”, within PRESERVATION STUDIO for the master's degree in ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN at POLIMI (Link: Programma Dettagliato (polimi.it)). The presentation took place on the 23rd of February 2024 and was entitled "Recording Cultural Heritage: Advanced surveying technologies for on-site data acquisition. Example of Tombs of the Kings archeological site, Cyprus". The number of participants/students...
Invitation from UniBari as a Program Committee – ICCSA International Conference
Dr Athos Agapiou was invited earlier today from colleagues at university of Bari to be a member of the Program Committee for the upcoming workshop titled "Geomatics for Resource Monitoring and Management" (https://iccsa.org/workshops), part of the 24th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA) (https://iccsa.org).The ICCSA conference will take place from 1st to 4th of July at the Thuyloi University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Visit at the Tombs of the Kings for site inspection
On February 21st, Dr Nicholas Kyriakides, Dr Renos Votsis and Dr Orestes Marangos, visited the archaeological site, Tombs of the Kings in Paphos. The purpose of the visit was to conduct a visual structural inspection of the tombs, with a primary focus on observing and documenting the primary fissures on the stone monuments. The inspection covered the entire site, including all tombs, and the fissures were recorded on an aerial image (Figure 2) produced during the first summer school by...
ENGINEER project – DLR International Conference on Geoinformation Data, Processing and Applications – DLR GeoDPA 2024
After an invitation from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), space-based and geoinformation applications carried out by the CUT team for heritage will be presented at the DLR International Conference on Geoinformation Data, that is expected to be carried out between 23-25.4.2024 in Oldenburg, Lower-Saxonie. This is the first International Conference that DLR is organised in the last 20 years. Glad to be part of it!
