Independent Heritage Documentation: How Digital Tools and Photogrammetry Are Reshaping Preservation Efforts

Invited by La Matinale on Wednesday, Mathilde Augé, France's director of the World Monuments Fund (WMF), recalled the urgent need to preserve the heritage, especially in times of war. Indeed, each conflict erases a part of history and identity, according to her. The NGO therefore acts to document and restore these threatened remains.

Independent Heritage Documentation: How Digital Tools and Photogrammetry Are Reshaping Preservation Efforts

© Błażej Pindor via Wikimedia Commons under CC by-SA 3.0 Unported license The use of technology has become vital in the documentation and conservation of heritage, especially in difficult or urgent circumstances. After many landmarks of the historic city of Palmyra were destroyed during Syria's war in 2015, conservators built three-dimensional digital models of the destroyed city to aid its future reconstruction. The destruction of the Buddhas o…