CyArk traveled to Bangladesh in April 2019 to document the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bagerhat in Southern Bangladesh. Historically known as Khalifitabad, the ancient city was founded in the 15th C ... READ MORE
CyArk ushered in 2019 with a number of exciting projects. Sadly, this year has also been marked by news of significant losses in cultural heritage such as the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Franc ... READ MORE
We were thrilled to return to Rapa Nui in January of 2019. Following our expedition a year ago, the Indigenous Polynesian Community Ma'u Henua who manages the park purchased the same equipment that Cy ... READ MORE
Mumbai, India – 21 February 2019 – Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data storage solutions, today announced a partnership with international non-profit organization CyArk to dig ... READ MORE
Q: What is your background?Since taking my first class as an undergraduate student, I have been drawn to anthropology because it constantly pushes me to challenge my assumptions about the world. After ... READ MORE
I’ve been tremendously excited on the news of a recent award CyArk received from the NEH. This is a prototyping grant to develop Resonant, a VR game utilizing our extensive documentation of the Balco ... READ MORE
Iron Mountain and its longstanding partner CyArk announce the digital preservation of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. In 1987, the Palacio de Bellas Artes was marked as a World Heritage li ... READ MORE
Iron Mountain and its longstanding partner CyArk announce the digital preservation of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. In 1987, the Palacio de Bellas Artes was marked as a World Heritage li ... READ MORE
Following a 16 hour trip and a night in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, the CyArk field team finally reached Ohrid, the location of our project site St. Sophia.
St Sophia, an 11th century church, i ... READ MORE
Completed in 1880 to mark Melbourne’s first international exhibition, the Royal Exhibition Building is one of the world’s oldest remaining exhibition pavilions. It was the site of Australi ... READ MORE
We are pleased to announce Andrew Burton as CyArk's next Photographer in Residence. Andrew Burton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, documentary photographer and filmmaker with a focus in news, conflict a ... READ MORE
In 2001, two important events happened in the life of Iraqi American entrepreneur Ben Kacyra. The first, a happy event, was the acquisition of his terrestrial LiDAR startup. His company had brought to ... READ MORE
In 2001, two important events happened in the life of Iraqi American entrepreneur Ben Kacyra. The first, a happy event, was the acquisition of his terrestrial LiDAR startup. His company had brought to ... READ MORE
Last month we launched our free virtual reality app MasterWorks for the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR. The app transports you to visit four historic sites including the ancient capital of Thailand, ... READ MORE
Conveying a sense of wonder and intimacy for the past has been both the most challenging and yet most rewarding part of my work as an archaeologist. Before recently joining CyArk, I worked as the Co-F ... READ MORE
CyArk will be presenting our new VR app MasterWorks on Oculus Rift at SXSW. We will be in booth 520 in the Austin Convention Center Halls, March 11th through 14th.We’ll be on the LaCie booth from Sea ... READ MORE
We are announcing applications for our Photographer in Residence program. Last year our inaugural Photographer in Residence, Kieran Kesner was selected from over 200 applications. Kieran joined the ... READ MORE
CyArk and FarBridge have partnered with Oculus to bring photorealistic and fully explorable replicas of some of the world’s most amazing monuments to Virtual Reality. Launching for both Oculus Rift a ... READ MORE
In December 2017 with the support of Iron Mountain CyArk traveled to Easter Island known locally as Rapa Nui. This remote island located over 2,182 miles (3,512 kilometres) from the Chilean mainland i ... READ MORE
CyArk, a non-profit organization dedicated to digitally recording, archiving and sharing the world’s cultural heritage, is partnering with Phase One, the world-leading provider of medium format digita ... READ MORE
Preservation project for national heritage site will use 3D laser scanning and cutting-edge virtual reality technologyTORONTO, Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- A beautiful historic site that has stood the ... READ MORE
The Waitangi Treaty Grounds in the Bay of Islands will be digitally mapped by a renowned high tech United States organisation specialising in the preservation of sites of significance globally t ... READ MORE
CyArk was recently named the inaugrual winner of the Ptolemy Data Science Award presented by industry leader Seagate Technologies. Our own VP of Programs, Elizabeth Lee was very proud to accept the aw ... READ MORE
I’m very excited to introduce our new logo - the first refresh of the CyArk brand since the inception of the organization in 2003.A big part of the change is the addition of a logomark or symbol. The ... READ MORE
Last week, CyArk CEO John Ristevski, field director Chris Dang, photographer in residence Kieran Kesner and heritage and conservation manager Kacey Hadick returned from Chavin de Huantar in the Peruvi ... READ MORE
As part of the production team, our job is to take all the data collected by the field team and turn it into useful products for our various stakeholders. Over the last 6 months we have been doing a ... READ MORE
Last week the team was filled with sadness to learn of the destruction of the al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, in addition to the devastating loss of life and humanitarian crisis faced by those living in Mosu ... READ MORE
BANGKOK, Thailand – June 21, 2017 – Seagate Technology® (NASDAQ: STX) today announced a partnership with CyArk, an international non-profit organization, to digitally preserve Wat Phra Si San Phet in ... READ MORE
As a non-profit, CyArk thrives on volunteers and student interns. Internship programs allow us to teach the next generation of digital preservation specialists who also bring fresh ideas and knowledge ... READ MORE
This week, Rahaf Orabi, one of the participants from the training workshop CyArk held with the Syrian Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) presented at the World Heritage Young Profes ... READ MORE
Last month we returned to the site of Bagan in Myanmar to complete our third field mission in support of this tentative UNESCO World Heritage Site. Home to over 3,000 temples within a 26 square mile ... READ MORE
CyArk, a non-profit organization dedicated to recording, archiving and sharing the world’s cultural heritage is announcing a partnership with FARO Technologies, Inc., the world’s most trusted source i ... READ MORE
It was in 2003 that I first met Ben Kacyra in Orinda after a mutual friend realized we had eerily similar ideas about the world. I was in the 3rd year of my PhD at the University of California at Berk ... READ MORE
Last week I took part in the 3D Digital Documentation Summit in New Orleans, Louisiana. Organized by The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) in partnership with Jean Lafit ... READ MORE
April 27, 2017--At CyArk, we believe the world’s cultural heritage sites are precious links to our past that ignite wonder, curiosity, and also foster a shared understanding of the human story. By com ... READ MORE
Have you ever wanted to climb to the top of Mount Rushmore and experience the site from the perspective of one of the carvers, under Roosevelt's mustache, on top of Washington's shoulder or perched on ... READ MORE
This week, follow CyArk as we head back to Bagan to help the Myanmar Department of Archaeology complete needed documentation of the site in preparation for their UNESCO World Heritage site nomination. ... READ MORE
As a small non-profit organization, CyArk depends on a wider community of partners to accomplish our mission of preserving and sharing the world’s heritage. We are fortunate to receive support in man ... READ MORE
CyArk visits amazing sites whose stories deserve to be told around the world. We live in a highly visual society. With the rise of social media and self-publishing, we have an unprecedented opportunit ... READ MORE
March is Women’s History Month and to honor local women’s history and female artists everywhere, CyArk headed across the Bay to San Francisco to document the historic Mother’s Building.Tucked away ins ... READ MORE
Last week, the CyArk Field Team made a special trip out to Colorado. The subject: the incredible Mesa Verde National Park, one of our teams' favorite projects and an outstanding example of the Ancestr ... READ MORE
Tourism can be a double-edged sword for cultural heritage sites. It is absolutely the lifeblood of many places, bringing much needed funds and awareness, but it can also expose sites to unintended ris ... READ MORE
Makenna Murray, Development Officer: Hey Guys, welcome back from Lebanon! How about telling us a little bit about that trip and what prompted it?Ross Davison, Field Manager: Absolutely! Lebanon was fa ... READ MORE
Project Anqa, which seeks to preserve cultural heritage using 3D digital recordings, has received a major contribution from the Arcadia Fund, a UK grant-making fund whose mission is to protect endange ... READ MORE
In early January, the CyArk team braved the desert winter and throngs of techies to attend CES 2017 alongside our partners at Seagate. Over the course of three days, CyArk took part in the Seagate Exp ... READ MORE
So often, you can’t appreciate the gravity of an historical event until you’ve stood on the spot. I remember learning in school about how pivotable the invasion of Normandy was to the winning of World ... READ MORE
For the first time since its incorporation CyArk was excited to host its annual summit, right here in the Bay Area. In years past, CyArk hosted the summit in regions of historical and cultural signifi ... READ MORE
CyArk is thrilled to announce the expansion of the IBM-CyArk partnership for the fourth consecutive year through a generous grant to support CyArk’s ongoing work in education.CyArk and IBM first forme ... READ MORE
For over a decade, CyArk has remained true to its mission to digitally capture, protect and share the world's most cherished cultural heritage sites. Now, with the world’s largest high-quality archive ... READ MORE
Earlier this month we had the opportunity to present CyArk’s work in Greece to the Greek-American community at the National Hellenic Society Heritage Weekend and Classic. We have just begun collectin ... READ MORE
This week, CyArk made the dream of teleportation a reality for hundreds of people who attended the After Dark event at San Francisco’s Exploratorium Museum, one of the nation’s top ten science museums ... READ MORE
Don't Have Time for an Around the World Trip?Join CyArk at the Exploratorium After Dark Next Week6:30pm-9:30pmThursday October 6, 2016Pier 15, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, 94111Tickets Available (d ... READ MORE
The TechWomen program empowers the next generation of women leaders in the technology field by bringing women in Northern California with their counterparts in the MENA region for a professional mento ... READ MORE
Every day, historic and cultural sites of local, national and global significance are damaged or even destroyed. We can all do something to document these sites and share them with future generations. ... READ MORE
Oakland, CA—Photogrammetry will be the foundation for the low cost 3D revolution. CyArk’s New Emergency Heritage Recording Kit, is freely available to everyone at cyark.org. Allowing a user to extrapo ... READ MORE
I’m Scott Lee, Program Director at CyArk , a non-profit that digitally documents and shares the world's cultural heritage. Just 8 weeks ago, I was in Myanmar to laser scan and capture a few of the inc ... READ MORE
Thank you for visiting Mount Rushmore with CyArk! We had an amazing time at the Founders’ Day Celebration in Washington D.C. and hope you are ready to continue your adventure at home. While we get bac ... READ MORE
Did you know that there are 59 National Parks across the United States? Many people only see a handful of these beautiful places in their lives, while others many never get to visit a National Park.Wh ... READ MORE
Oakland, CA—CyArk will be presenting its first ever public Virtual Reality Experience on the National Mall on Saturday, August 27 from 10am- 6pm at Constitution Gardens in Washington, DC.Featuring liv ... READ MORE
Amazon is one of the most widely used websites in the world—you probably use it yourself for everything from dish soap to electronics. But did you know, that Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchase t ... READ MORE
Last week, I had the opportunity to return to one of my favorite sites in the CyArk Archive, Mt. Rushmore.Alongside two of the original CyArk team members, John Ristevski and Anthony Fassero, we retur ... READ MORE
Makenna Murray, Development Officer: Hi Ross, Hi Kacey, tell me where you just came back from.Kacey Hadick, Staff Researcher/Digital Production Assistant: Καλημέρα/Kalimera (Greek for good morning) We ... READ MORE
Heritage across Syria is at an extreme risk of damage, looting and destruction. CyArk is working to digitally preserve these irreplaceable treasures before they are lost. Your donation today will enab ... READ MORE
Mary Jensen is a 10th Grade Art History Teacher at Boulder Valley High School in Colorado. Information and communication technologies have quickly revolutionized industry sectors but educators are no ... READ MORE
2016 is being called the year of Virtual Reality (VR). As the technology becomes readily accessible to consumers, organizations from the United Nations to the British Museum are finding ways to integr ... READ MORE
CyArk captures, archives and shares the world by working in partnership with companies and organizations around the world to tell the stories of these incredible places with those near and far. As her ... READ MORE
Dear Supporters and Friends, Thanks to all those who have supported Project Anqa, we have seen important strides made towards the recording of cultural monuments throughout the Middle East during 2016 ... READ MORE
Makenna Murray, Development Officer: Hey Scott! You’ve been taking some exciting trips this year with CyArk. Can you tell us a little bit more about your most recent field work in Bagan?Scott Lee, Dir ... READ MORE
With a history spanning 12,000 years, the ancient city of Hasankeyf is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world and contains a rare blend of architectural monuments spanning c ... READ MORE
Makenna Murray: Hey Ross, welcome back! Where were you last week?Ross Davison: I was out in Taiwan at the Lukang Longshan Temple with our sponsors from Iron Mountain and the BOCH or the Bureau of Cult ... READ MORE
CyArk's archive contains over 200 projects spanning 43 countries and all seven continents, but only a fraction of that data is published on CyArk.org due to funding limitations. EMC Corporation offers ... READ MORE
Washington, Oakland, May 5, 2016—3D data captured in 2013 has found a new application as the National Park Service prepares the Lincoln Memorial for its next century of use. Following the announcement ... READ MORE
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of representing CyArk and Project Anqa at the second Culture in Crisis workshop at Yale University. The event was an International Conference held at theInstitut ... READ MORE
Great Big Story is a video network dedicated to the untoild, the overlooked and the flat-out amazing. Their team joined CyArk in Mexico city in March to get a first-hand look at a day in the life of a ... READ MORE
In 2015, CyArk and LUMS partnered to bring the digital preservation process to Pakistan. Over 10 days, more than 50 students, from departments spanning the renowned technical universities, came out to ... READ MORE
Everyone wants Virtual Reality in their homes and in their lives. At least, that was the message at South by Southwest this month in Austin, Texas. The massive film, music and tech mega-conference is ... READ MORE
In early March 2016, the CyArk Field Team travelled to Mexico City to document the Mexico City National Cemetery. The site is one of twenty-five military cemeteries located around the world that are m ... READ MORE
After documenting the American cemetery in Mexico City, CyArk had the opportunity to record the site of Templo Mayor, an active excavation, located just miles away in the historic center of Mexico Cit ... READ MORE
Molly Hayes and Kate Rambow are fifth grade teachers in the Boulder Valley, CO School District (BVSD). This is their fifth year teaching for BVSD. Molly and Kate attended the recent Impact on Educatio ... READ MORE
Students are more engaged on field trips than they are by a textbook. Who can blame them? It is so much more fun to experience an object or a place than to only read about it. But, with field trips co ... READ MORE
‘Therefore this building without any doubt belongs on the list of those monuments which represent the milestones of cultural achievement of mankind.’
Upon entering the city of Cologne, the most ob ... READ MORE
November 23, 2015
Oakland, CA—CyArk has been selected as one of fifteen recipients of a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) to develop, disseminate, and te ... READ MORE
On Tuesday December 1 CyArk will be participating in #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. Please consider supporting CyArk through a donation in support of Project Anqa, a joint vent ... READ MORE
Last week CyArk travelled to Austin, TX to compete in SXSWEco’s Place by Design pitch competition. CyArk was one of five finalists in the Data + Tech category focused on projects that utilize emerging ... READ MORE
Architecture shapes our world, sometimes more than we comprehend. Fences and walls are built for protection and security. Doors and gates, however, restrict access to the other side when closed. Altho ... READ MORE
With the CyArk 500 Annual Summit just 4 weeks away, you may be wondering if you should join us in Berlin.If the history, architecture and cultural scene in Berlin on the 25th anniversary of reunificat ... READ MORE
This summer I had the unique opportunity to work with CyArk on a series of projects ranging from the Atlantic Slave Trade to the Wazir Khan Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. My experience at CyArk allowed m ... READ MORE
We are now only 3 months away from the CyArk 500 Annual Summit and excited to share a preview of this year's Topics and Speakers! We hope you will join us in Berlin and register now for the Early Bird ... READ MORE
In July, Vancouver Maritime Museum will partner with CyArk and Absolute Space Engineering to digitally record the historic RCMP schooner, the St. Roch. Absolute Space Engineering will utilize the late ... READ MORE
Data from Topcon Positioning Group’s participation in the digital preservation of the historic Sogi hydroelectric plant in Japan was unveiled at a special event in Bonn, Germany. The unveiling took pl ... READ MORE
Have you been busy scanning Heritage Sites in 2015? CyArk would love to help showcase your work and make it a part of the CyArk Archive.We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Data Donati ... READ MORE
Today at the 39th Meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Bonn Germany, ICOMOS and CyArk announced an MOU to launch a program for the emergency documentation of high risk cultural heritage. ... READ MORE
On June 9th, CyArk began a workshop with the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) to provide them with the basic skills for 3D heritage documentation. The project is funded by USAid and se ... READ MORE
Back in the beginning of April, CyArk, in collaboration with the National Trust fully documented the historic site of Saint Michael's Mount—a tidal island in Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, UK. I greatly enjoy ... READ MORE
CyArk had a great opportunity to work on a second project with our technology center partner at Santa Ynez High School. Chip Fenenga teaches a unique class called EAST or Environmental and Spatial Tec ... READ MORE
CyArk is thrilled to announce the release of 5 new bilingual lesson plans! For a second year in a row, IBM has generously supported the development of CyArk’s lesson plans and educational resources. A ... READ MORE
World heritage sites are under constant threat from natural and man-made events such as climate change, earthquakes, pollution, fire, vandalism, tourism and urban pressure. Cutting-edge laser scanning ... READ MORE
OAKLAND, Calif., May 4, 2015- The Sogi hydroelectric plant, considered a significant contribution to the Meiji Industrial revolution, has been mapped as part of the CyArk 500 Challenge, an internation ... READ MORE
At the start of April 2015, CyArk, in conjunction with our tech center at the Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu and the National Park Service, scanned Honouliuli , the former World War II Internment C ... READ MORE
Last week, CyArk and Trimble traveled to the U.S. Virgin Islands for our second collaboration centered around the Atlantic Slave Trade theme. This project follows the documentation of Natchez National ... READ MORE
Oakland /Washington /Honolulu (April 23, 2015) - The Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium — built to honor the 10,000 Hawaii citizens who served in the First World War — has now been digitally scanned by O ... READ MORE
In February 2015, the world was shocked by the horrific videos released by the Islamic State showing the violent destruction of statues and other artifacts held within the Mosul Museum in northern Ira ... READ MORE
St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. April 13, 2015 – Set against the breath-taking backdrop of a rich natural landscape, Virgin Islands National Park possesses a lengthy and complex history of slavery, cro ... READ MORE
CyArk is pleased to announce that 3D Scan, of Lesmo, Italy, has been selected as the recipient of a free booth at SPAR 2015.
Their donation of the beautiful Arengario di Monza, joins the diverse col ... READ MORE
Since 2012, IBM has supported the growth of CyArk’s educational reach, whether through integrating our existing lesson plans into IBM’s Teachers TryScience platform for wider dissemination, generating ... READ MORE
Earlier this month over the period of a week, CyArk undertook a unique project that offered the opportunity to conduct a training workshop in conjunction with the African World Heritage Fund at its Ri ... READ MORE
CyArk would like to share a recent statement by ICOMOS regarding the recent events in northern Iraq. We stand in solidarity with ICOMOS and their message.
Just when the outer limits of one’s ability ... READ MORE
March 10 is the deadline to submit your data for a chance to win a free booth at the upcoming SPAR 2015 Conference to showcase your work! Spar 2015 is a great opportunity to connect with hundreds of e ... READ MORE
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of presenting to the 7th grade class at Bay Farm Elementary School in Alameda, California. As part of a series of presentations by local professionals, CyArk dis ... READ MORE
If you didn't have a chance to attend CyArk's Annual Summit at the National Archives last year, now you can catch up on all of the fantastic presentations from our partners!
We were fortunate to h ... READ MORE
History is often the most significant when it is your own, and it is always a joy to discover another local treasure. Here in the California Bay Area, we are surrounded by a wealth of beautiful built ... READ MORE
As a result of the American Space Program of the 1960s, the City of Cocoa Beach, Florida underwent significant growth in population and economic gain. With its close proximity to the Cape Canaveral Ai ... READ MORE
The Okotoks Erratic, considered for centuries sacred by Alberta Aboriginal peoples, has been included in the CyArk 500 Challenge, an international project to digitally preserve and create awareness of ... READ MORE
We are very excited to announce that Spanish company Global Artenia has donated four incredible sites in Spain to CyArk’s archive. These sites include the Oracular Sanctuary and Roman Baths of Mura (V ... READ MORE
In early January CyArk partnered with the TUMO learning center in Yerevan, Armenia to engage a new generation with their heritage and to teach methods for saving the material cultural remains. The en ... READ MORE
CyArk and Spar are teaming up to promote the use of 3D technologies for cultural heritage. Has your team used 3D technologies to help in the preservation of cultural heritage?This year CyArk is offer ... READ MORE
On November 20th, at the Stanley Mosk Library on the Capital Mall in Sacramento I had the honor of excepting the Governor's Award for Historic Preservation on behalf of CyArk.
The award was prese ... READ MORE
To those who work to preserve cultural heritage, it can seem as though these incredible treasures dwindle on a daily basis. To those unfamiliar with the field, historic and cultural sites may seem per ... READ MORE
To echo a couple of the previous blogs, this is not my first Scottish Ten digital documentation project. While I was a part of the survey undertaken in November 2012 at the Eastern Qing Tombs in China ... READ MORE
“If we lose these sites, we also lose the stories they tell. Cultural heritage sites make up a piece of our collective human memory, which is why they are so important to preserve. We are delighted to ... READ MORE
CyArk announced a new partnership with Iron Mountain on October 7th at its Annual Summit, held at the National Archives in Washington, DC. This event marked the one-year anniversary of the CyArk 500 C ... READ MORE
CyArk unveiled a new interactive website at the National Archives in Washington, DC this October. In a new partnership with Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), CyArk and IE bring life to cultural herita ... READ MORE
CyArk has teamed with HERE, a global leader in mapping and navigation, and a subsidiary of Nokia Corp., to create a "Historic Cities Program," launched at the CyArk Annual Summit in Washington, DC in ... READ MORE
CyArk announces Francesco Bandarin as a new member to the CyArk 500 Advisory Council, the advisory board tasked with advising CyArk on the development of selection criteria and reviewing nominated sit ... READ MORE
With the new school year just around the corner, CyArk is excited to announce the release of new lesson plans and online activities for teachers and students, bringing the mysteries of the past to the ... READ MORE
The Scottish-designed-and-built Nagasaki Giant Cantilever Crane in Japan will be the final international site for the ground-breaking Scottish Ten laser scanning and digital documentation project.
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We are eagerly anticipating this year's CyArk 500 Annual Summit, which will be held October 7-8 at the U.S. National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. The conference theme for this year is "Democr ... READ MORE
During his nearly 10 years at CyArk, Justin Barton has been instrumental in building the CyArk Technology Center and training programs. This August Justin will begin a new chapter as part of the HDS ... READ MORE
Guest blogger: Lara Barnes is studying architecture at Cal Poly Pomona and is planning to graduate with a Bachelor of Architecture in June of 2015. She recently returned from studying abroad in Flor ... READ MORE
How many UNESCO World Heritage Sites have you visited in your lifetime?
For many, answering this question would be fairly straightforward – heritage sites are often inextinguishable in memory. But ... READ MORE
Yesterday marked the launch of the transatlantic project ‘Celebrating John Muir in the digital age’ in Dunbar, Scotland, with the unveiling of the project’s interactive digital content and an intricat ... READ MORE
This week, technologists from the University of Central Florida’s Institute of Simulation & Training, local New York firm Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, and California-based non-profit, ... READ MORE
Guest blogger: Makenna Murray interned with CyArk during the summer of 2013 and recently finished her final year at Wellesley College studying History and Art History. She is planning to go to get he ... READ MORE
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists warns that some of the most iconic sites of American history are at risk from the effects of climate change. The United Nations’ 2013 Intergovernme ... READ MORE
With the generous support of IBM, CyArk is pleased to announce the completion of three lesson plans inspired by the El Camino Real de California digital preservation project. All three lesson plans ar ... READ MORE
CyArk has launched its first Kickstarter project for the 3D digital preservation of the 1964-65 World's Fair New York State Pavilion's Tent of Tomorrow and Astro-Towers. For those of you unfamiliar w ... READ MORE
The digital preservation of famed naturalist John Muir’s birthplace in Dunbar, Scotland and his family home in Martinez, California continues to build ties and bring nations together in exciting ways. ... READ MORE
The Blue Wing Inn adobe is so wrapped up in Sonoma history, that over the centuries it has attained almost mythical status. Next week, using 3D laser scanners and cutting-edge technologies, students f ... READ MORE
Last Friday, CyArk Technical Lead Alexander Reinhold and I packed up our gear and headed to Emeryville for STEM Career Awareness Day, an all-day event generously hosted by California State University ... READ MORE
This past month CyArk has been fortunate enough to work with a multitude of remote sensing technologies to recreate Fort Brown--a national treasure from Texas thought lost to history. Using a process ... READ MORE
Yesterday CyArk Europe Production Specialist, Adam Frost, and I drove south to Gilroy, California to scan a historic cabin at the Gilroy Hot Springs, part of the Henry W. Coe State Park. We used two s ... READ MORE
Looking for ways to support CyArk, but haven’t yet mastered the art of 3D laser scanning heritage sites? Not to worry, now you can support digital heritage preservation through online shopping. CyAr ... READ MORE
Many are familiar with Les Miserables—Victor Hugo’s account of Paris’s poor struggling to survive—but few people know about photographer Charles Marville, who documented the Paris of Victor Hugo as it ... READ MORE
While film critics have their own opinions about the movie Pompeii, which was released in theaters last week, CyArk was interested to learn that the filmmakers made use of LiDAR scanning to enhance th ... READ MORE
Non-profit organization CyArk works with its vast network of partners to aggregate and archive 3D data of our collective human history, to transform that data into useful conservation and management t ... READ MORE
Erwin Christofori is the founder of the engineering firm Christofori und Partner in Germany, and he is a longtime partner of CyArk. His engineering firm works all over the world, and has had the oppo ... READ MORE
Since 2009, CyArk has been working with the National Park Service to enhance their preservation and interpretation efforts at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Last week, as a part of this partnershi ... READ MORE
CyArk is honored to be one of the finalists for this year’s East Bay Innovation Awards. In recent years the East Bay has become home to cutting-edge businesses and organizations, and the East Bay Inn ... READ MORE
This week CyArk is working with Mid-Pacific Institute (MPI) in Honolulu, HI, USA to provide training in 3D laser scanning technology and data collection and processing. Faculty members from MPI's elem ... READ MORE
The CyArk office was bustling this week in preparation for an in-house educational workshop, thanks to the generous support of IBM. Since 2012, IBM has supported the growth of CyArk’s educational cont ... READ MORE
Following the October launch of the CyArk 500 at the Tower of London, groups from all over the world have been nominating sites for inclusion in this unprecedented effort to digitally preserve world h ... READ MORE
We are less than two weeks away from the first deadline for submitting heritage sites for consideration in the CyArk 500. So far, we have submissions from governments, universities, heritage agencies ... READ MORE
Beards make the man, or so I would have been made to believe flipping through the pages of my father's books. He was an admirer of explorers, adventurers, and seafarers whose exploits and escapades f ... READ MORE
Weathering the dust and extreme aridity of Delta, Utah, many at Topaz War Relocation Center sought refuge in the distant Topaz Mountain, a feature that soon became an emblem of the vast isolation expe ... READ MORE
CyArk is pleased to announce that following the successful 500 Challenge Launch & Conference event in London last month, video footage from the event is now live on the CyArk YouTube page. All confer ... READ MORE
On October 21st at the Tower of London, CyArk formally launched the CyArk 500 Challenge. Joined by over 200 foreign ambassadors, government officials, cultural representatives, corporate executives a ... READ MORE
Today brings an end to a very special month at the CyArk Oakland office. We say farewell to a very special visitor who has joined us for a one-month mentorship to learn about our digital preservation ... READ MORE
This is the fourth post in our monthly blog series titled “Heritage at Risk.” Each month, we will highlight one risk factor that threatens our heritage and how CyArk’s mission can help preserve our hi ... READ MORE
LONDON-- 21 October 2013 – Beloved and culturally significant sites like the Great Wall of China, The Taj Mahal and Machu Picchu need protection, or the world stands to lose them to natural disasters, ... READ MORE
In advance of the CyArk 500 Challenge Launch & Conference, which will take place this October 20-22 at the Tower of London, CyArk has convened a body of heritage experts to serve on the CyArk 500 Advi ... READ MORE
Guest blogger: Makenna Murray is finishing her final year at Wellesley College studying History and Art History. She is planning to go to get her masters in Historic Preservation following graduation ... READ MORE
CyArk is pleased to announce that Maptek has donated data sets to the CyArk archive from 3D scanning they conducted of Aboriginal rock art at Kakadu National Park in Australia. This is the most recen ... READ MORE
This is the third post in our blog series titled “Heritage at Risk.” Each month, we will highlight one risk factor that threatens our heritage and how CyArk’s mission can help preserve our history.
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John Muir, Scottish-born American naturalist famously known as the Father of the US National Park movement, might have been surprised to see CyArk’s production team descending last week on his Victori ... READ MORE
Due to overwhelming interest, CyArk has created a limited number of Academic spaces within the CyArk 500 Launch and Conference. These spaces are reserved for researchers, students and professors withi ... READ MORE
Guest blogger: Lisa Barrett has completed two years at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo pursuing a degree in architecture. Originally from San Tan Valley, Arizona, she is spending the summer in the Bay inter ... READ MORE
Historic Scotland announces the fifth Scottish UNESCO site to be scanned as part of the Scottish Ten initiative:
The Romans were known for their feat, skill and innovation and now the Antonine Wall ... READ MORE
Guest blogger: Makenna Murray is finishing her final year at Wellesley College studying History and Art History. She is planning to go to get her masters in Historic Preservation following graduation. ... READ MORE
This post is the second in our blog series titled “Heritage at Risk”. Each month, we will highlight one risk factor that threatens our heritage and how CyArk’s mission can help preserve our history.
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We are pleased to announce the first set of speakers for the CyArk 500 Launch and Conference. These speakers are just the beginning of an impressive line up of individuals and topics. Please check t ... READ MORE
For the second year in a row, CyArk has been selected as a finalist in the EMC Heritage Trust program. Last year thanks to the support of CyArk’s friends we were able to raise funds for the digital p ... READ MORE
CyArk is proud to announce the launch of Parks Canada’s Fort Conger on the CyArk website. Fort Conger is the third project made possible by CyArk’s Data Donation Partner Program and a collaboration be ... READ MORE
Guest blogger: John Mooyman resides in Alamo, California and has completed his freshman year at Monte Vista High School. In his free time he enjoys scuba diving and exploring the outdoors. He is activ ... READ MORE
This post is our very first piece from our blog series titled "Heritage at Risk". Each month, we will highlight one risk factor that threatens our heritage and how CyArk’s mission can help preserve ou ... READ MORE
Our Heritage is at risk. Cultural heritage sites are becoming collateral victims with the increasing frequency and intensity of disasters, both natural and human induced. The destruction of Bam and ... READ MORE
Earlier this week work commenced digitally documenting the ruins of Ancient Stabiae in a collaborative project between not-for-profits CyArk and the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation. The project ... READ MORE
Late in the evening of Friday, May 24th, I boarded a plane (the first of three) to Durban, South Africa. Arriving sometime Sunday morning, I was greeted by colleague and friend, Michelle Dye. The rest ... READ MORE
Our cultural heritage is at-risk. The destruction of the Great Umayyad Mosque Minaret in Aleppo, Syria and the Nohmul Pyramid in Belize last month underscores the vulnerability of centuries old struc ... READ MORE
Ruth took up the position of Executive Director, CyArk Europe, on the 1st January this year following a successful 30 year career as a Civil Servant working to both the UK and Scottish Governments. ... READ MORE
Guest blogger: Suzanne Delahanty MA, works as a high school instructor for Palm Springs Unified School District at Cathedral City High School, and is the creator of the school’s ACE Design & Technolog ... READ MORE
CyArk is pleased to announce our partnership with the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University and their ongoing Saint Francis and the Americas project.
Earlier this year at the Califo ... READ MORE
Our mission at CyArk is to digitally preserve cultural heritage sites using advanced 3D imaging tools. Our purpose is to make the information we collect available in perpetuity for both education and ... READ MORE
The Sydney Opera House, with its white-tiled, arched “shells” (or “sails”, depending on whom you happen to be speaking too), is a testament to creative genius and design. That, of course, is why it is ... READ MORE
Scottish Ten scan UNESCO World Heritage-listed masterpiece, the only modern building included in this historic, global project
Sydney Opera House is being surveyed inside and out by a team of lase ... READ MORE
CyArk is proud to announce the launch of Saskatoon Canada’s Third Avenue Church on the CyArk website. The project is a result of CyArk’s new Data Donation Partner Program and a collaboration between ... READ MORE
A transatlantic project that will digitally document in 3D the homes of Scottish conservationist John Muir using cutting-edge scanning technology was announced by First Minister Alex Salmond in New Yo ... READ MORE
In my humble opinion monikers are confusing to even the brightest of 3 year olds. So when I “somehow” acquired the nickname of Jaime Cakes - and believed Cakes to be my surname- my parents should hav ... READ MORE
Next week the team membersof theScottish Ten project board planes in both Scotland and the USA, some flying east, some flying west, but all converging on Sydney, Australia. Sydney is an iconic modern ... READ MORE
In 1881 Fort Conger was established on Canada's northern Ellesmere Island during the first northern polar scientific expedition. The Fort was funded by the US Government and was therefore named after ... READ MORE
On March 16th, 2013 I had the opportunity to present at the Japanese American Museum in San Jose (JAMsj). The presentation was open to the community and focused on presenting the preliminary results ... READ MORE
Elizabeth Lee, Director of Operations at CyArk, is pleased to be presenting on CyArk's digital preservation efforts at Manzanar, Topaz, and Tule Lake at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose this S ... READ MORE
This article is written by Calvin Kwon. Calvin Kwon is a Proejct Manager for Organization & Networks (ON)
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto – a significant Catholic pilgrimage site visited by ne ... READ MORE
The Society for California Archaeology (SCA) will be hosting a Public Day at the Berkeley Marina during their 2013 Annual Meeting.
The Public Day will bring together participants from archaeology ... READ MORE
This article is written by Divya Jayaram. Divya has a Masters in Architectural Conservation from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a volunteer with CyArk.
Documentation forms the bas ... READ MORE
February 4, 2013 — Science Visualization, a Maryland-based company that brings science to the public through media and exhibitions, today announced its partnership with CyArk, the world leader in digi ... READ MORE
This following video, produced by Historic Scotland, shows the Scottish Ten team digitally documenting the expansive Eastern Qing Tombs in northeast China. Using laser scanning technology to capture s ... READ MORE
CyArk is proud to serve as the Digital Historic Preservation Track Chair for the 2013 SPAR International Conference. The annual SPAR International conference brings 3D professionals together to acquir ... READ MORE
Mission San Juan Bautista, located about 90 miles south of San Francisco, was founded in June 1797 by Fr. Fermin de Lasuen. It was the fifteenth of twenty-one missions established in Alta California. ... READ MORE
The Eastern Qing Tombs is made up of 15 separate tomb complexes for emperors, emperoresses, and emperial concubines. The third international Scottish Ten project focused on just two of these tombs, bu ... READ MORE
This article was written by James Hepher, HS Surveyor, and Alastair Rawlinson, DDS Head of Data Capture.
Weeks Two and Three on the Scottish Ten project here at the Eastern Qing tombs near Zu ... READ MORE
This week marks the close of fieldwork at the Eastern Qing Tombs in China. The project is the third international project of the Scottish Ten, following Mount Rushmore in the United States and Rani K ... READ MORE
SAN FRANCISCO, California, November 19, 2012 – CyArk and Zynga.org have teamed up to preserve our cultural heritage sites -- the tangible representations of humanity’s shared past. Players of Zynga’s ... READ MORE
This article is written by special guest blogger Blaine Kortemeyer. Blaine works as the Assistant Chief of Interpretation and Education as well as being one of the Preservation Team members for Mou ... READ MORE
Last week Digidoc 12 was held at the Royal College of Sugeons’ Hall in theatrically mist-filled streets of Edinburgh Scotland. Over 200 people from the UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Australia and S ... READ MORE
SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 25, 2012 -- Andrew Galvan, curator of Old Mission Dolores, San Francisco's oldest building debuted CyArk's virtual tour and 3D visualization of the mission in San Fr ... READ MORE
October 22, 2012: Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop today announced that Sydney Opera House will be the fourth international site to be digitally scanned by t ... READ MORE
Next week the 4th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2012) opens in Cyprus. The event which runs from October 29 to November 3 will be attended by hundreds of cultural heritage prof ... READ MORE
CyArk is in the final stages of the work to virtually reconstruct three sites through a grant from the National Park Service's Japanese American Confinement Sites program. In 2011, CyArk began a proj ... READ MORE
CyArk to launch CyArk Europe Limited at Digidoc 2012, October 22-23 in Edinburgh. With Douglas Pritchard at the helm, CyArk Europe will advance CyArk’s mission to digitally preserve heritage sites an ... READ MORE
Mission San Luis Rey was founded in June 1798 as the eighteenth Spanish mission established in California. It is named after Saint Louis IX, King of France. The current church structure dates to 1811 ... READ MORE
Earlier this week Historic Scotland announced the annual Digidoc conference. Digidoc is the leading international conference on digital documentation and visualisation in relation to architecture, de ... READ MORE
CyArk is thrilled to announce the receipt of a cash grant from IBM. The grant will go towards supporting the integration of CyArk’s educational content into IBM’s Teachers TryScience platform. Thi ... READ MORE
This year CyArk has been working closely with our partners at Mt Rushmore National Memorial and Autodesk to digitally preserve artifacts within the park's collection using photogrammetric techniques.
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For a week in early August (8/6/12 - 8/10/12), I worked closely with Ronald "Chip" Fenenga of Santa Ynez Valley Union High School (SYVUHS) to train him in CyArk's digital preservation methods and stan ... READ MORE
CyArk requests the pleasure of your company for the
Digital El Camino Real Launch at Mission Dolores
5-7pm, Thursday, October 25th at Mission Dolores
3321 16th Street, San Francisco - free ... READ MORE
On the afternoon of Monday, July 23, 2012, I was at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Los Angeles, CA. Along with staff from Manzanar National Historic Site, CyArk unveiled its fi ... READ MORE
With the major advancements in browser technologies in the past few years, CyArk has been working on a brand new Online 3D Viewer to help serve our mission of providing realistic, meaningful, useful, ... READ MORE
CyArk and its network of partners have been working this year to bring digital preservation technologies to El Camino Real of California, the historic route also known as the "California Mission Trail ... READ MORE
This week in San Francisco's historic Presidio, CyArk will participate in the 3D Digital Documentation Summit hosted by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. The conference run ... READ MORE
CyArk is excited to unveil the in-progress digital reconstruction of Manzanar for public preview and comment. Through a unique partnership with the National Park Service, CyArk is working to create a ... READ MORE
At the end of May I traveled to northern South Africa with our Technology Center partners, the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the African Conservation Trust. The project's aim was to provide a second ... READ MORE
Earlier in 2012, as a part of my 2012 Science Fair Project at St. Catherine School, I wanted to learn about 3D printing. I started by researching what exactly 3D printing is and how it’s already used ... READ MORE
The CyArk Digital Preservation Station will be open throughout the July 3rd Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Members of the public are encouraged to visit the station ... READ MORE
KEYSTONE, SD: The National Park Service announces the official launch of the Mount Rushmore Digital Preservation project. At a press event held this week in Rapid City, the National Park Service and ... READ MORE
Rapid City, South Dakota: Project partners of the Mount Rushmore digital preservation project announce the launch of the official National Park Service mobile app featuring a virtual tour of the Mount ... READ MORE
On May 31st at an event held in Madrid, Google announced its new World Wonders Project. Led by Google’s Street View technology, the World Wonders Project allows users to virtually explore and discov ... READ MORE
The week of May 14th CyArk kicked off a multi-year program with Mexico’s National Institute for History and Anthropology (INAH). The program, titled the Sacred Cities of Ancient Mexico involves the di ... READ MORE
Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia y Historia (INAH) has developed a groundbreaking partnership with CyArk. The joint program, the Sacred Cities of Ancient Mexico, will digitally preserve 11 of M ... READ MORE
CyArk is extremely honored to announce that we've received the second prize in EMC's Heritage Trust Project Contest. We'd like to thank all the CyArk supporters who made this win possible by voting f ... READ MORE
Here's your chance to hear CyArk's founder Ben Kacyra speak about CyArk's work to digitally preserve the California Missions and El Camino Real, as well as other global heritage sites in the CyArk 500 ... READ MORE
CyArk's Executive Director, Tom Greaves, gives an insightful interview for the latest issue of LiDAR Magazine. In the article Tom discusses how his early upbringing and education guided his career cho ... READ MORE
CyArk has been selected as one of seven finalists in EMC's Heritage Trust Project. The EMC Heritage Trust Project recognizes and supports digital stewardship of the world's information heritage in lo ... READ MORE
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the most infamous maritime disaster of all time, CyArk is proud to announce the launch of the Titanic Database Project. The project is the result of Direct ... READ MORE
How do we archive heritage documentation so we can be confident we'll be able to retrieve this information next year, in 5 years, in 50 years or 500 years?
The United States Library of Congress re ... READ MORE
In a continued effort to bring the best tools for digital preservation to our workflow, CyArk has finalized an MOU with Technodigit, the makers of 3DReshaper meshing software. CyArk began testing the ... READ MORE
CyArk’s Founder, Ben Kacyra, will be speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May 10th.
The United States' oldest and largest public affairs forum, the Commonwealth Club, presents 40 ... READ MORE
You are invited to listen to CyArk's Director of Projects and Development, Elizabeth Lee, deliver a lecture tonight on digital preservation to the AIA of St. Louis. Elizabeth will be discussing CyArk' ... READ MORE
As a non-profit, CyArk is a recipient of free licenses for SketchUp Pro through Google's SketchUp for Nonprofits program. Google's SketchUp team recently approached us to write a blog about how we uti ... READ MORE
CyArk will once again be participating in the annual Spar International Conference, being held April 15-18 in The Woodlands, Texas. Spar is a conference where leading 3D professionals convene to disc ... READ MORE
February 28, 2012: The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park formally announces the launch of the San Antonio Missions Digital Portal, a new way to virtually visit the National Historical Park ... READ MORE
CyArk is in the running for a $10,000 advertising grant from Facebook!
If won, this grant could drastically help increase our social media presence to spread the word of our mission and foster adv ... READ MORE
February 19th marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States military became wary of ... READ MORE
CyArk has partnered with Ronald Rael, a Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley, to test a new innovation in the field of rapid prototyping as well as to test our ability to produce media fit for phy ... READ MORE
The National Park Service and CyArk are extremely excited to kick off the new year with the launch of the much anticipated Mount Rushmore Website, a new way to virtually visit the National Memorial ne ... READ MORE
Beginning January 2, 2012 Tom Greaves will serve as Executive Director of CyArk.
Tom has long been a supporter of CyArk and its mission to digitally preserve our world's cultural heritage. He bega ... READ MORE
CyArk and partners are extremely excited to announce the launch of the Hopi Petroglyph Sites Digital Preservation Project Website.
This special Hopi portal on the CyArk website will allow a new gen ... READ MORE
Season's Greetings,
As 2011 comes to a close, I want to reach out and thank you for your support and contributions over this past year, and to ask you for your continued help as we formally launch ... READ MORE
CyArk is pleased to announce the signing of an MOU with the Dunhuang Academy for the digital preservation of the Mogao Caves. The caves represent one of the most important sites in China and we are t ... READ MORE
This week in Edinburgh, CyArk's Ben Kacyra and Elizabeth Lee will be speaking on the topic of Remote Access to World Heritage Sites. The two day conference features delegates from around the world an ... READ MORE
As part of a continued partnership between CyArk and The University of Colorado Denver’s Center of Preservation Research (CoPR) in the College of Architecture and Planning, we have teamed up again to ... READ MORE
The morning of November 9, 2011 Ben Kacyra's TED talk went live on the TED.com website. The talk is currently featured on the homepage of TED and within the first eight hours of going live the talk s ... READ MORE
For over a year, CyArk has been based in downtown Oakland, home to many amazing Art Deco architectural masterpieces. We are fortunate to have our office in the famous Breuner Building. It was designed ... READ MORE
As you may already know, CyArk has been enthusiastically making progress on the project to digitally preserve three out of ten War Relocation Authority Relocation Centers from World War II. Under a g ... READ MORE
The Scottish Ten team and CyArk began work scanning Rani Ki Vav stepwell in Patan, Gujarat, India this week. This project is the second international site of the Scottish Ten. The first internationa ... READ MORE
We are proud to announce that CyArk has surpassed a million visits on our website for the year. At the close of September we had already reached 1.06 million visits. This same time last year we were a ... READ MORE
Last week marked the always exciting Digital Documentation conference in Glasgow, Scotland. This was the third year of the conference, now shortened to Digidoc, and was truly the best conference yet. ... READ MORE
After a great deal of work, CyArk is proud to announce the release of our first iPad app in the iTunes Store. (EDIT: It has subsequently been released for iPhones as well). The Fort Laramie app is a ... READ MORE
The National Park Service (NPS) has partnered with CyArk through the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program to digitally preserve the Topaz Relocation Center. The Topaz Relocation Center i ... READ MORE
On a typical cool Bay Area summer morning, the CyArk team made its way to the Presidio of San Francisco to capture some of the oldest walls ever built in the city. At the heart of the Presidio, these ... READ MORE
Glasgow is set to host an international conference on digital documentation next month.
The Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualisation (CDDV), a joint venture between Historic Scotland and ... READ MORE
CyArk's Director of Projects and Development, Elizabeth Lee, to keynote annual international conference. Elizabeth will be speaking about CyArk and our global digital heritage preservation efforts.
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Last December, CyArk, with the help of its partners, conducted the field work for the Digital Preservation of three culturally significant Hawaiian sites. Those sites, or wahi pana ("place(s) of signi ... READ MORE
St. Kilda becomes the most recent addition to the Scottish Ten. Earlier this month, CyArk's partner, the Centre for Digital Documentation and Visualization (comprised of Historic Scotland and the Glas ... READ MORE
Ben Kacyra spoke to a crowd of over 600 people at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh earlier this month. Speaking on the final day of the conference, Ben Kacyra spoke about CyArk and the need to p ... READ MORE
As a historic preservationist, I realize that large and gorgeously-designed buildings and monuments and archaeological ruins of bygone civilizations usually grab the public’s attention, and rightfully ... READ MORE
After creating educational activities and other content for the Tutuveni petroglyph site, I have become inspired to learn more about rock art. In different corners of the world over vast stretches of ... READ MORE
CyArk receives $240,000 towards the digital preservation of three Japanese American Confinement Sites. CyArk, in partnership with the University of Colorado at Denver, Densho, and the War Relocation ... READ MORE
The Leaning Tower of Pisa at Piazza del Duomo is one of the most recognizable wonders of the world. But with hundreds of years of stress, pollution, tourists and pigeons, the Tower was in need of some ... READ MORE
This spring, CyArk hosted an in house workshop for the Digital Preservation Project at Tutuveni, a Hopi petroglyph site in Arizona. The project was made possible through the generous support of the W ... READ MORE
As a young, non-profit organization, CyArk thrives on volunteers and student interns. Internship programs allow us to teach the next generation of digital preservation specialists. We also learn fro ... READ MORE
The annual Leica Geosystems HDS Worldwide User Conference has officially been merged with the annual Hexagon conference. This merge joins Leica with its new family affiliates under the Hexagon umbrell ... READ MORE
Earlier this year the CyArk team traveled to Rhode Island to digitally preserve the Marble House— one of the famous Newport Mansions built as a “summer cottage” during the late 1800’s. The home, built ... READ MORE
On July 15th Ben Kacyra will address the global audience at TED with his Idea Worth Spreading, CyArk.
TED is a nonprofit with the mission of spreading ideas. Started as a conference in 1984 to bri ... READ MORE
CyArk is pleased to share the following press release with our audience. CyArk has partnered with University of Colorado Denver's Center of Preservation Research (CoPR) since 2009. The partnership beg ... READ MORE
In March I traveled to Edinburgh and Glasgow to meet with our partners from the Centre of Digital Documentation and Visualization (CDDV), which is comprised of Historic Scotland's Conservation Group a ... READ MORE
CyArk is excited to provide access to Spanish speakers through the launch of our Spanish website
Fotografía del Sistema IV en Monte Albán (Photograph of System IV at Monte Albán)
El archivo di ... READ MORE
This year's spar conference had perhaps the largest showing of heritage presentations in recent years. CyArk has worked with Spar closely over the last few years to organize the heritage component of ... READ MORE
Since its tragic descent to two and a half miles below the North Atlantic on April 14th, 1912, the RMS Titanic has been gradually deteriorating along the ocean floor. Recently, the scientific communit ... READ MORE
I've just completed a week long trip to South Africa where I met with our new partners, the African Conservation Trust (ACT) and the Geomatics department of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Tog ... READ MORE
Over the last few years, CyArk has worked closely with Spar conference organizers to develop a strong heritage presence at the conference. As the conference officially kicks off this morning in Houst ... READ MORE
Very soon CyArk will be launching the Digital Preservation Project at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park live on our website. Located along the San Antonio River in Texas, the San Antonio ... READ MORE
CyArk recently traveled to Rapid City, SD to meet with senior park staff to discuss the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Digital Preservation Project. This project is a 5 year partnership between the ... READ MORE
Last week (Nov 29-Dec 4) saw the culmination of months of planning to bring Digital Preservation to the islands of Hawai'i. Through the concerted efforts of new allies and old partners, CyArk was able ... READ MORE
By this time, many are familiar with the story of our field collection efforts at Mt. Rushmore. After meticulously sorting through and editing 2.5 weeks of field data the CyArk team and our partners ... READ MORE
November 24, 2010: The National Park Service Intermountain Region formally announces the launch of a new way to virtually visit Fort Laramie National Historic Site in Wyoming.
This new web portal i ... READ MORE
Objectives:
One of the biggest goals we had in mind was to make our vast archive of content more easily accessible and better organized. We have added more information to our media elements so you a ... READ MORE
This week the 6Sight annual imaging technology conference was held in San Jose, CA. CyArk was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the event and present on 3D imaging technologies and their app ... READ MORE
Three of us from the CyArk team just returned from spending a week in the Arizona desert digitally documenting two Hopi petroglyph sites, Tutuveni and Dawa Park. Tutuveni is the primary site of the p ... READ MORE
My name is Lee Wayne Lomayestewa, I work in the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office of the Hopi Tribe as a Research Assistant. The Hopi Cultural Preservation met previously with the CyArk crew and other ... READ MORE
From October 6-9, 2010, the Association for Preservation Technology held their international conference in Denver, CO, USA. CyArk was there to present in the "Documentation" session. It was a joint pr ... READ MORE
Last Friday, October 8th, CyArk's technology and content were highlighted at the final InOak event of the year.
As taken from the InOak website, "INOAK was created in 2010 by a handful of innovat ... READ MORE
CyArk's Mt. Rushmore project has been selected as the cover story for this month's issue of American Surveyor magazine. Vol.7, Issue 7 of the widely distributed industry magazine includes a 9-page co ... READ MORE
Over the last year, we have developed a very close partnership with the Center of Preservation Research (CoPR) at the University of Colorado, Denver. The partnership which began with our work togethe ... READ MORE
The October 2010 issue of National Geographic features a 3-page article about CyArk and our mission. An abbreviated version of the article may be viewed at: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/ ... READ MORE
This post was written by Erwin Christofori of Christofori und Partner after he and his team scanned St. Anne's Church. Erwin has worked on 3D laser scanning projects around the world, including sever ... READ MORE
After the successful completion of the Mt. Rushmore Project, the Scottish Ten has begun work on the next project in Scotland. Beginning August 13th, the team has been hard at work capturing the UNESC ... READ MORE
Teotihuacán, a highly influential but still very mysterious epicenter in the pre-Columbian world, has recently revealed a tunnel sealed off since its cultural prime.
Yesterday, the Herald reported ... READ MORE
This post was written by Dirk Häusleigner of Christofori und Partner before departing for Vilnius. Dirk has worked on 3D laser scanning projects around the world, including several projects in the Cy ... READ MORE
After several weeks on the road, I am back at CyArk headquarters in Oakland, CA. The biggest event over the last few weeks has been the completion of our work at Mt. Rushmore. During the project, Mt ... READ MORE
CyArk recently completed the 3D capture of Mt. Rushmore. Part of a 5 year partnership with the National Memorial, the laser scanning portion of the project was completed by an incredible team from ac ... READ MORE
In mid-May I was privileged to be a part of a truly and literally monumental project: the Digital Preservation of Mount Rushmore. CyArk partnered with the Scottish Centre for Digital Documentation and ... READ MORE
Things have been very busy at CyArk lately. Between our office move last month and our on-going projects, we have not been very diligent about our blogging. We hope to improve this through upcoming ... READ MORE
Last week we attended the annual Spar conference on 3D imaging and capture technologies. I have had the opportunity to attend this event for the past 3 years, and it is always a great experience. Sp ... READ MORE
Last year CyArk partnered with World Monuments Fund (WMF) to Digitally Preserve the renowned cloister of Saint-Trophime, one of the multiple structures within the historic center of Arles, France insc ... READ MORE
The recent earthquake in Haiti has devastated a nation and caused immeasurable loss of life. Thankfully, the world has responded en masse. Donations, supplies, and aid workers have flown in from all c ... READ MORE
Imagine a dark, dank, cavernous yet cramped space. The air inside hangs heavy; the heat lingers. Each busy day can usher in as many as 1000 people, although the average height of the chamber measures ... READ MORE
Everyone here at CyArk has been gearing up for the SPAR 2010 conference in Houston, TX next week. For those of you who don't know, SPAR 2010's focus is "all about the business and technology of captur ... READ MORE
Last week field work began on our much anticipated San Antonio Missions project. This project, announced last December, involves the digital documentation of 4 of the Missions of San Antonio as well ... READ MORE
In light of the recent tragic events in Haiti, ICOMOS President Gustavo Araoz has circulated the following call to action. In response to this call, CyArk is asking all those interested in joining vo ... READ MORE
Rising above the plains of western New Mexico is a series of sandstone bluffs called El Morro, Spanish for ‘the headlands’. The location of a stable water source, it became a popular pit-stop along th ... READ MORE
About the Author
Parveen Talpur is a New York based writer and historian. Her research at Cornell University (1990-97) focused on the decipherment of Moen jo Daro seal symbols. The results of her res ... READ MORE
Surveying techniques range from simple manual methods to remote sensing instruments capable of millimeter precision. The choice of survey device depends on the type of information needed and the c ... READ MORE
Primary Sources: Wikipedia: GPS and Wikipedia: GNSS
The Global Positioning System, usually called GPS (the US military refers to it as NAVSTAR GPS - Navigation Signal Timing and Ranging Globa ... READ MORE
Primary Source: Wikipedia: Remote Sensing
In the broadest sense, remote sensing is the measurement or acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon, by a recording device that is not ... READ MORE
For most endangered heritage sites, the first tool required for preservation and restoration is a reliable, accurate site survey. Terrestrial LiDAR (aka 3D Laser Scanning, aka High Definition Surv ... READ MORE
In computer graphics and cinematography, high dynamic range imaging or photography (HDR for short) is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures than normal digital im ... READ MORE
Primary Source: Wikipedia: Panoramic Photography
Panoramic photography is a style of photography that aims to create images with exceptionally wide fields of view, but has also come to refer ... READ MORE
This December I experienced an incredibly packed 5 days of Scottish heritage. As part of the Scottish 10, I traveled to Scotland to become more familiar with the 5 Scottish sites to will be included ... READ MORE
Field work has just ended and I am currently in Mexico with our Director of Projects, Liz Lee, and CyArk partner (and friend) Frank Collazo of Leica Geosystems HDS. We have come to the wonderous site ... READ MORE
With the help of our partners and the support of people like you, CyArk has made 8 new projects available on our website in the past year. Among others, these projects include the oasis city of Ancien ... READ MORE
CyArk is proud to announce our upcoming project with the National Parks Service to digitally preserve the Missions of San Antonio. Our work at the National Historic Park will include the missions Nues ... READ MORE
CyArk would like your help determining how to best display our new 3D models. These light-weight site representations are a great visualization tool for teachers, students, and researchers, and enable ... READ MORE
In the prior chapters of this CyArk blog series, we have talked about the idea of the year 2012: What it means to modern people, and what it may have meant to the Classic Period Maya of Central Americ ... READ MORE
As part of the preparatory work for the Mt. Rushmore Digital Preservation project, this week I traveled to Rapid City South Dakota. The purpose of the trip was to meet with park staff as well as our ... READ MORE
This entry is Section C of the three-section Part IV of the 2012 Blog Series from CyArk (click here for Section A and here for Section B)...Yes, that is a bit convoluted, but so is the Maya calendar i ... READ MORE
This is Section B of the three-section Part IV of the 2012 Blog Series from CyArk (click here for Section A)...Yes, that is a bit confusing, but so is the Maya calendar - at least to our eyes. Be awar ... READ MORE
CyArk and partners Historic Scotland and Glasgow School of Art were featured in a New York Times article entitled Scots Aim Lasers at Landmarks, written by Michael Kimmelman. The article discusses the ... READ MORE
We have discussed some aspects of the public fascination, hype and hysteria surrounding the upcoming date of December 21 (or 23!), 2012 over the previous posts in this series: Introduction, Millenaria ... READ MORE
We are pleased to announce the arrival of a new data set to the CyArk Archive. Working with Historic Scotland, the Digital Design Studio at the Glasgow School of Art, and the Rosslyn Chapel Trust, Cy ... READ MORE
CyArk is very pleased to announce the development of a new partnership with Pointools. The UK-based company creates high-end point cloud editing and rendering software. We are excited to be working cl ... READ MORE
The Give a Point Cloud, Get a Point Cloud contest is mostly for those attending the Leica Geosystems User Conference this past week. But really, anyone can enter if they'd like.
The rules are real ... READ MORE
The two prior entries to the 2012: Truth, Fiction, and the Popular Imagination blog series introduced us to some questions surrounding the year 2012 and began to explore some of the sources of confus ... READ MORE
That’s right, I’m out of the CyArk office and out in the field. Over the last few months while I have been working part time in the CyArk offices, I have also been working from a distance to complete ... READ MORE
On October 13th at 7:30 pm PDT, the local San Francisco Bay Area station KQED will air a segment about CyArk's work at Chichén Itzá as part of the Maya Skies project. The story will air on KQED 9 & ... READ MORE
Last week the World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced their biennial "Watch List" for 2010. Every two years the WMF releases a list of the world's 100 most endangered sites, be they endangered from exces ... READ MORE
With this second installment of 2012: Truth, Fiction, and the Popular Imagination (Part One - Introduction was last week's blog), we turn our gaze towards our own perceptions of The End Of The World ... READ MORE
You may or may not have noticed CyArk's presence in a few new places around the web. We have begun making a concerted effort to reach out to a broader internet audience by spreading the CyArk mission ... READ MORE
In only 3 weeks CyArk will be joining other enthusiastic laser scanning experts from around the world at the annual Leica HDS Worldwide User Conference in San Ramon, CA. The conference will take plac ... READ MORE
This is the first post of a multi-part blog series from CyArk on the 2012 phenomenon that has exploded across popular literature, the internet, television, and now film. As the date itself has its bas ... READ MORE
The CyArk 3D Point Cloud Viewer is a powerful tool that allows you, the user, to interact within a 3D model space. This enables anyone to view our 3D point cloud data in true 3D.
This application ... READ MORE
Hello from Fort Laramie (and Torrington), Wyoming! CyArk is currently in the field working to Digitally Preserve the Fort Laramie National Historic Site. Fort Laramie was once an important hub point ... READ MORE
Welcome to Take Five, a new blog feature in which your host, Lili, showcases CyArk's top five photos in a given theme. Today we take a few looks at religious imagery from around the world: Germany, Ca ... READ MORE
The idea of recycling is far more ancient than many would think. For millennia, people have reused everything; metal, clothing, and yes, even ancient monuments. Current trends in archaeological though ... READ MORE
Ever hear the old joke about the man who tried to forge ancient coins, but got caught when scholars noticed they were stamped “52 BC”?
Archaeologists hear this joke and give a wistful sigh. If onl ... READ MORE
Recently CyArk has been fortunate to grow in our work force through the generous contributions of our volunteers. They have all greatly increased our productivity and have proven invaluable to us duri ... READ MORE
Once again CyArk will be working closely with the Spar conference to organize a heritage session for their upcoming 2010 conference. The conference will take place in Houston, TX February 8-10, 2010. ... READ MORE
A series of devastating fires near Athens, Greece, have burned scores of homes and tens of thousands of hectares of pine forest and olive groves. They also placed several important archaeological site ... READ MORE
There is some heritage and culture that cannot be laser scanned into 3D images. Music has its own distinct and emotional cultural legacy, and it was composer Dr. Albert Ssempeke who used his knowledge ... READ MORE
CyArk has recently received press for our upcoming digital preservation of Mount Rushmore in the UK's Guardian, The New Zealand Herald, and on NewsCred. We are pleased with the great coverage but woul ... READ MORE
The long, lazy days of summer are slowly winding down...which means that the start of the 2009—2010 school year is just around the corner! The start of a new school year brings fresh opportunities fo ... READ MORE
Time is relative. Different cultures around the world record time in different fashions. According to the Gregorian calendar, it is the year 2009 AD. But according to the Hebrew calenda ... READ MORE
In February of 2009, a volunteer partner of PCA brought donated scanning equipment to Kampala, Uganda. There, it was used to conduct sample digital preservation at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the ... READ MORE
With the popularization of scientific analysis on television shows like CSI and Law and Order, it seems science can tell us everything these days. It can solve every crime and decipher every riddle. ... READ MORE
Catherine Cullen of AOL News wrote an article about CyArk's partnership with the National Parks Service and Historic Scotland, and the upcoming digital preservation of Mt. Rushmore.
"People may be ... READ MORE
With the launch of Rapa Nui this afternoon, CyArk celebrates the 25th project to be digitally preserved and made publicly available via the web. We thought this silver anniversary of sorts called for ... READ MORE
Rapa Nui, a small volcanic island and province of Chile more commonly known as Easter Island, is home to one of humanity's most enigmatic and instantly-recognizable archaeological landscapes. First se ... READ MORE
Jeff Martin wrote an article in USA Today about the upcoming Digital Preservation of Mount Rushmore.
"The stoic faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln will never know what ... READ MORE
A visit to the Bavarian city of Weißenburg is like taking a step back in time. There are ancient Roman ruins to be explored, Renaissance influences to be experienced, and Gothic architecture to be exa ... READ MORE
Although it’s taken much of the world quite some time to jump on the conservation bandwagon, it seems the Classic Mayan civilization was practicing good environmental management policies well before ... READ MORE
The University of San Francisco, my alma mater, has been steadily making remarkable improvements to a number of the buildings on campus since my graduation in 2006. The newly renamed Kalmonowitz Hall ... READ MORE
Lieca N. Hohner, Chief Editor at Spar Point Research wrote a glowing editorial about the combined efforts of the National Parks Service, Historic Scotland, and CyArk at Mount Rushmore.
"The agreem ... READ MORE
Amidst the Independence Day celebrations at Mt. Rushmore, another event with international implications was taking place. Almost 10 hours before the famous fireworks, a special press conference was h ... READ MORE
Kurt Repanshek, at National Parks Traveler, posted substantial coverage regarding CyArk's recent presence at Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
"Digital mapping. This relatively new technology is a ... READ MORE
Jeremy Fugleberg of Rapid City Journal wrote a solid summary of the events unfolding at Mount Rushmore, and CyArk's partnerships with Historic Scotland and the National Parks Service.
"MOUNT RUSHMO ... READ MORE
CyArk received international press coverage when Christopher Mackie of The Scotsman, a Scottish newspaper, reported about our recent efforts at Mount Rushmore.
"The Scottish Ten project, which will ... READ MORE
CyArk is pleased to announce the web-launch of our latest project, the Zapotec capital of Monte Albán, Mexico. This project was made possible through the generous collaboration of the Instituto Nacion ... READ MORE
We at CyArk, love 3D and maps; especially when those two things involve cultural heritage. I've compiled a list below of some of the best 3D models of World Heritage Sites and historic locations that ... READ MORE
In May 2008 a highly skilled 3D survey team from the German firm Christofori und Partner travelled to the historic city of Regensburg, Germany. Regensburg has over 1000 historic landmarks within its ‘ ... READ MORE
Conceptual Data Capture
In 1997, Paul Debevec published a paper about how to digitally create high dynamic range images for rendering surfaces. This paper is very technical and includes the algorithm ... READ MORE
It is often difficult to capture the beauty of a site with drawings and photographs alone. This is why animations are often helpful for viewers to get a sense of the space and relation of objects to o ... READ MORE
Work finished a little earlier than expected so I decided to take an opportunity to do an official blog from the field during a late breakfast at the hotel. I am writing from Arles, a small historic ... READ MORE
High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) is a process which involves taking multiple photographs, each exposed differently (eg, ‘bracketing’), and then using special computer software to combine these photos ... READ MORE
On May 8, 2009 officials in the Ancash region of Peru announced the discovery of stone tenon heads estimated to be 4,000 years old. The tenon heads were discovered in the Huaylas district at an archa ... READ MORE
Below Rome, Italy, burrowed into the soft yet durable volcanic tufa rock, are over 170km (105 miles) of winding catacombs. There are over 40 individual catacombs, dating back two millennia, which were ... READ MORE
In only its second year, the Digital Documentation conference, coordinated by the Digital Design Studio at the Glasgow School of Art and in association with Historic Scotland, Leica Geosystems, Hexago ... READ MORE
Last week I had the honor of representing CyArk at the ATHENA project kick-off meeting in Amman Jordan. I only spent three days in the country but I had a wonderful experience meeting new partners an ... READ MORE
In October 2008, Archaeology Magazine's Deputy Editor Eric Powell accompanied the CyArk team to digitally preserve the Zapotec ruins of Monte Alban, just outside Oaxaca, Mexico. Archaeology Magazine ... READ MORE
On April 6, 2009, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake occurred in the central Italian region of Abruzzo. The quake is the deadliest earthquake to strike Italy since 1980. L'Aquila, capital city of Abruzzo, and ... READ MORE
Two of the largest conferences of their kind were held back-to-back this year in the United States. The Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference is one of the lar ... READ MORE
Ten days ago at the archaeological site Adamkayalar in the Şeytan Valley of Turkey, a group of looters damaged eleven rock-wall relief niches when they detonated dynamite. The Mersin University K ... READ MORE
In March 2009, I travelled within the SF Bay Area to a shipyard in Alameda, CA. There I met with a team from UC Berkeley’s Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) consisting of Dr. Shakh ... READ MORE
We are proud to announce the launch of our new Knowledgebase on the CyArk website. We are striving to make the new knowledgebase a resource for information on techniques and technologies used to digit ... READ MORE
The abstract puts it best when it says, "Although terrestrial 3D laser scanning is being used increasingly for a wide range of applications, no laser scanning system on the market is suitable for all ... READ MORE
The International council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) has an international committee dedicated to the documentation of cultural heritage; named CIPA (the International Committee for Documentation ... READ MORE
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is an NGO dedicated to helping the advancement of knowledge and research in remote sensing, photogrammetry, and spatial technolo ... READ MORE
English Heritage's Heritage 3D project researched and collected information and data from workshops and case studies while participating in steering committees to produce this beginner's guidance manu ... READ MORE
In conjunction with the Heritage 3D "Advice and guidance to users on laser scanning in archaeology and architecture" beginner's guide, this more-detailed publication outlines specific standards for c ... READ MORE
Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) partners with the University of California at Davis' AHMCT department for various projects. Together, they conducted an equipment test of multiple ti ... READ MORE
The following link will take you to the case studies contributed to the Heritage3D project by associates. Each case study is individually available in PDF format. The multitude of case studies includ ... READ MORE
This paper investigates the accuracy of multiple laser scanning systems and was conducted in 2003 by i3mainz (the Institute for Spatial Information and Surveying Technology at the University of Applie ... READ MORE
HafenCity University Hamburg's Department of Geomatics investigated the quality of measurements obtained with multiple laser scanners. For the time-of-flight scanner test, they employed the:
Trimbl ... READ MORE
This is the short promotional brochure for the Leica ScanStation 2 terrestrial laser scanner (in US English). It does not provide technical specifications of the equipment; for this, please see the da ... READ MORE
Data Sheet (technical specifications, etc.) for the Leica ScanStation 2 terrestrial laser scanner (in US English). This data sheet will provide all the specs such as laser range, speed, density/resolu ... READ MORE
Data Sheet (technical specifications, etc.) for the Leica ScanStation terrestrial laser scanner (in US English). This data sheet will provide all the specs such as laser range, speed, density/resoluti ... READ MORE
Data Sheet (technical specifications, etc.) for the Leica HDS6000 terrestrial laser scanner (in US English). This data sheet will provide all the specs such as laser range, speed, density/resolution, ... READ MORE
Promotional brochure for the Leica HDS6100 terrestrial laser scanner (in US English). It does not provide technical specifications of the equipment; for this, please see the data sheet.
For other ... READ MORE
Data Sheet (technical specifications, etc.) for the Leica HDS6100 terrestrial laser scanner (in US English). This data sheet will provide all the specs such as laser range, speed, density/resolution, ... READ MORE
The Archaeological Data Service (hosted by the University of York) investigated the current problems associated with storing, using, and disseminating large (and increasingly larger) data sets generat ... READ MORE
the 3D laser Scanning Forum is dedicated to attracting members of the laser scanning community from all over the world to discuss the topic of 3d laser scanning and all it has to offer. Currently you ... READ MORE
An equipment catalog for the multiple FARO scanners available with a brief description of what comes with them (eg, software bundles and software licenses) as well as accessory items such as tripod mo ... READ MORE
A two-page brochure complete with technical specifications (data sheet) for the new FARO Photo 80/20 laser scanning system, providing range, speed, size, and even laser power/wavelength information. ... READ MORE
Data Sheet and informational brochure for the Optech ILRIS-3D laser scanning system providing information such as speed, range, physical size, operating conditions (eg operational weather conditions), ... READ MORE
A set of early human footprints discovered in Africa reveal that 1.5 million years ago prehistoric humans walked upright in a manner very similar to modern humans. The report was released by the jour ... READ MORE
Urbanization, the last entry in this CyArk series, is of special concern to those of us who understand the great value of cultural heritage sites. In a sense, urbanization is the reason for and the cu ... READ MORE
2009 has been declared as the "Year of Science" in the US, a national year-long celebration to engage the public in science and improve public understanding about how science works, why it matters, a ... READ MORE
We are proud to announce the launch of Qal'at al-Bahrain on CyArk. This site was contributed to our archive by SCDS Group who collected the data in collaboration with the Kingdom of Bahrain Ministry ... READ MORE
On April 22nd and 23rd, the 2nd annual Digital Documentation conference will be held at the Old Fruitmarket in the heart of Glasgow's Merchant City. Digital Documentation 2009 will have twelve present ... READ MORE
In the 1930s a great archaeological discovery was made: a group of tens of thousands of clay tablets, ranging from nugget-sized to place mat-sized, describing the daily internal life of the Persian Em ... READ MORE
Cultural artifacts are a funny lot. They tend to move around frequently, and in doing so become ambassadors of a particular culture to the entire world. It's a wonderful thing that a child in France c ... READ MORE
In this continuing series by CyArk, we explore just a few of the world's most endangered heritage sites in several categories, separated by the general nature of the hazards they face. This week, we t ... READ MORE
February 19th-22nd, 2009 Truro College will host the Digital Archaeology Workshops. This workshop has attracted a group of international delegates to discuss and promote the development and more wide ... READ MORE
The annual Spar conference on 3D Imaging and Scanning will be held in Denver, Colorado, March 30- April 1. Spar is the world's best attended 3D imaging and scanning-focused conference. The conferenc ... READ MORE
In this continuing series by CyArk, we explore just a few of the world's most endangered heritage sites in several categories, separated by the general nature of the hazards they face. In this week's ... READ MORE
With the United States days away from a historic inauguration, teachers can use this current event as an opportunity to highlight American history in the classroom. Teachers can take their students on ... READ MORE
In this continuing series by CyArk, we explore just a few of the world's most endangered heritage sites in several categories, separated by the general nature of the hazards they face. One of the most ... READ MORE
CyArk is proud to announce the launch of Nineveh on CyArk, as part of the larger Digital Nineveh Archives. Nineveh (ancient Ninua) (36°22'N 43°09'E) is situated close to the confluence of the Tigris ... READ MORE
On January 2nd, 2009 the new Ars Electronica Center opened its doors for the first time. The "Museum of the Future" boasts 3,000 m2 of space for exhibits, including their new Deep Space exhibit. Dee ... READ MORE
This year CyArk will chair a session at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference to be held in Williamsburg, Virginia. As taken from their website, "The CAA ... READ MORE
As has unfortunately been demonstrated time and time again, some of the world's greatest cultural heritage sites are critically at risk of destruction. From the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan to the N ... READ MORE
Usually, when a government tries to gain UNESCO World Heritage status for one of their country's sites, they pour resources into reinforcing crumbling walls or stifling erosion. China likes to do thin ... READ MORE
On Friday, December 12, 2008 I had the opportunity to visit two classrooms at Marin Primary and Middle School. Arranged by the Yolanda Escandon, the school technology coordinator, I made two presenta ... READ MORE
Spar Point Research, a leading market research group for new 3d technologies, posted an article about Hans Hess's financial support of CyArk's preservation efforts. Hans and Sylvia Hess attended our M ... READ MORE
I have been a CyArk intern for over a year now, and I am currently a senior anthropology major at the University of California at Berkeley. I have spent my summers excavating in the Belize jungles b ... READ MORE
Last week I traveled to Amman, Jordan to give a paper at the Digital Media Applications in Cultural Heritage (DMACH) conference. DMACH 2008 was hosted by the Center for Study of Architecture in the A ... READ MORE
During the week of November 16-22, schools in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico will participate in celebrations and activities to celebrate Geography Awareness Week. First established in 198 ... READ MORE
We've recently launched a few, new features in an effort to help keep everyone informed and "in the loop" regarding CyArk's activities, news, and upcoming projects. The first and most notable edition ... READ MORE
I am traveling on a southbound train to London after an exciting two day workshop at Durham University. With WiFi access on the trains I figured this was the perfect opportunity for an on-the-road bl ... READ MORE
This weekend CyArk held its third workshop in a series of workshops to strategize and organize the launch of an upcoming initiative.
We are very pleased to announce that the Samuel H. Kress Foundat ... READ MORE
Last week we held the inaugural CyArk development workshop at Monte Alban, Mexico. Several VIP's traveled to Oaxaca in order to learn more about CyArk and discuss future development opportunities. A ... READ MORE
CyArk has a variety of resources that can be used in an educational setting. Whether you're teaching history, math, or science, there's a number of ways for educators to use CyArk in the classroom.
... READ MORE
Four full days in the field resulted in lots of scan data, lots of photos, and lots of scrapes and bruises but little energy left to blog. In an effort to make this the first official CyArk blog from ... READ MORE
On October 1, CyArk presented at the annual Presidio Teacher's night in San Francisco, CA. The event was attended by over 500 Bay Area teachers and dozens of presenters. The theme of this year's ev ... READ MORE
Ben Kacyra recently presented at the 2008 Google Zeitgeist conference, an annual gathering of doers and thinkers from all over the world. His talk was included in the Serious Sustainability portion of ... READ MORE
On Sunday, September 21st, CyArk was invited back to the Lawrence Hall of Science to once again present the ever-popular archaeology and erosion activity.
The event was hosted at the Lawrence Hal ... READ MORE
CyArk recently partnered with the University of San Francisco, Leica Geosystems, and INSIGHT to digitally reconstruct a 16th century stone portal. The portal was originally part of the monastery of Sa ... READ MORE
On July 31, the Lawrence Hall of Science hosted a day of events devoted to ancient engineers of the past. CyArk held a special exhibit on Mayan pyramids and erosion's effects on heritage sites, featur ... READ MORE
Learn more about Mayan engineering feats and build your own pyramid with CyArk at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, CA on Wednesday, July 30.
As part of the Lawrence Hall of Science's Summe ... READ MORE
The CyArk Education Program has developed a variety of educational resources for educators, parents, students, and the general public. Our education pages currently feature information about the CyArk ... READ MORE
CyArk would like to invite K-12 teachers in joining us for a free, one day workshop as we discuss ways to use CyArk's 3-D data and media in the classroom. The workshop will be held Saturday, April 12, ... READ MORE
It's 12:30 a.m., and I'm watching a tiny green laser trace the outline of an 800-year-old Mayan pyramid—up and down, up and down. We have already been on site scanning for a couple of hours and have a ... READ MORE
The Republic of Korea has suffered the loss of one of its greatest national historic treasures. Seoul’s 610 year-old Namdaemun (Great Southern Gate) was set ablaze by an arsonist on the evening of Feb ... READ MORE
Time is constantly a threat to Mesa Verde National Park. As it passes, and brings with it erosion, rock falls and possibly earthquakes, the park's ruins are at risk of collapse. But a new laser techno ... READ MORE
IMG1LAs a town so solidly rooted in 19th-century architecture, Washington, D.C., has no lack of Neoclassical flourishes—wide domes, stately columns, magnificent distances, and egalitarian symmetry. Bu ... READ MORE
The documentation of sites of cultural heritage made a strong showing, among the usual industrial applications for laser scanning, at the Leica Geosystems User Conference held in San Ramon, California ... READ MORE
I have just returned from Turkmenistan after a six-week collaboration with the Ancient Merv Project for its 2007 field season. The ongoing project by the Institute of Archaeology (IoA) at University C ... READ MORE
4,000 years of history lie beneath the Karakum desert in the form of the remains of an ancient city, Merv. Strategically located at an oasis along the now extinct land-based trade routes of Central As ... READ MORE
CyArk team memebers Ben Kacyra and Elizabeth Lee recently traveled to Mesa Verde National Park as part of an on location shoot for the new PBS show, Wired Science. In addition to giving interviews abo ... READ MORE
Introduction
Among the academics and scientists of the world, there is a great deal of uncertainty regarding the specifics of predicting global warming. However, there is one thing that they all agr ... READ MORE
CyArk announces its newest feature, a fully interactive Hazard Map showing inundation levels and plotting previously recorded earthquakes. Everyday, global warming is becoming more and more of a real ... READ MORE
I have been receiving questions from fellow colleagues well as the public concerning the Hazard Map. I have compiled a list of a few relevant questions and have included answers for your reading plea ... READ MORE
Orinda retiree Ben Kacyra has made the biggest contribution to archeological research since Indiana Jones added the bullwhip to his field kit.
Kacyra, who made his fortune as an inventor and civil ... READ MORE
Last week the CyArk offices received a visit from San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Tom Abate. Mr. Abate is a Science and Technology writer for the Chronicle and was particularly interested in the ... READ MORE
Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum of Maussollos, Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria - of the original Seven Wo ... READ MORE
The CyArk 3D Heritage Archive has archived 3D digital documentation of the Bab al-Barqiyya gate of the Ayyubid Wall, part of an extensive historic preservation and development project in Cairo of the ... READ MORE
The world is losing its important cultural-heritage sites faster than they can be preserved. Unlike artifacts, safely housed in museums or private collections, heritage sites are exposed to the ravage ... READ MORE
Orinda, Calif. - The Kacyra Family Foundation has received a grant from the U.S. National Park Service's National Center for Preservation Technology and Training for the purpose of advancing archaeolo ... READ MORE
Global cultural heritage is being lost faster than it can be documented; and a new cultural heritage archive, CyArk, is working to slow this loss.
Utilizing proprietary technology for 3D laser scan ... READ MORE
"John Loomis of CyArk, a nonprofit organization dedicated toward "Preserving World Heritage Sites through collecting, archiving and providing open access to data created by laser scanning, digital mod ... READ MORE
"CyArk, the non-profit organisation which preserves endangered World Heritage sites, has put together a team of survey engineers and archaeologists to demonstrate high definition laser scanning to sur ... READ MORE
Conservators, architects, academics, and armchair archaeologists will soon be able to access detailed digital documentation of some of the world’s most famous cultural sites via the Web.
At press t ... READ MORE
Professional Surveyor Magazine has honored CyArk co-founder Ben Kacyra as one of the 25 most influential individuals in the surveying community.
"As a civil engineer who taught surveying at the col ... READ MORE
Cultural Heritage can be defined as monuments, buildings, or landscapes of "outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science." These sites are often under threat from envi ... READ MORE
Cultural Heritage can be defined as monuments, buildings, or landscapes of "outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science." These sites are often under threat from envi ... READ MORE
In the forests of Guatemala’s El Petén region lie the ruined cities of one of the world’s great ancient cultures, the Maya. Tikal was the largest and one of the most important urban centers of Mayan c ... READ MORE
KFF sponsored the 1st CyArk International Conference on 3D Laser Scanning Applications for Heritage which took place in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. ... READ MORE
Imagine a device with spiderlike tripod legs, connected to a large cube that shoots a green laser beam. The beam scans the Orinda Theatre, then boomerangs back to a wired laptop computer.
No, it's ... READ MORE