Multimodal imaging of heritage objects

Session

Analysis and Imaging in Heritage Science

Authors

Prof Adam Gibson (1, 2)

Affiliations

1. UCL Institute of Sustainable Heritage
2. UCL Dept Medical Physicsa and Biomedical Engineering

Keywords

heritage imaging

multispectral imaging

hyperspectral imaging

Abstract text

Imaging is one of the most widely used analytical techniques in heritage science as it is safe, non-contact and non-destructive. It is developing rapidly with new devices and new analytical techniques becoming available from basic photography and digitisation through to high-resolution, multimodal imaging with sophisticated analysis and visualisation. It takes advantages of methods developed elsewhere in science and in turn feeds back methods for use in other disciplines.

In this presentation, I will review state of the art by presenting case studies that used multispectral and hyperspectral optical imaging as well as X-ray imaging. These  are chosen to illustrate the breadth of macroscopic imaging methods and objects that are relevant to heritage science.