Square Tower House - Mesa Verde National Park, United States of America
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.26301/cbtd-5b18 | |
| Project Name | Square Tower House - Mesa Verde National Park |
| Country | United States of America |
| Status | Published |
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| Spatial Data | Download (Links to all available data types will be emailed) |
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Device Type |
| LiDAR - Terrestrial | 0.3741 GB | Leica SS1 | Time of Flight Scanner |
| Background |
| Site Description | The Square Tower House is one of the stops on the Mesa Top Loop Road driving tour and the tower is the tallest structure in Mesa Verde National Park. In 1906 52,073 acres (81 sq mi) of a mesa top and its canyons were designated the Mesa Verde National Park. In 1976 the site became a designated wilderness preserve, and in 1978 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park was formed to protect and preserve the more than 700 years of Native American history located within its boundaries which are represented by over 4,000 archaeological sites. These Native Americans, known as the Anasazi by the Navajo and the Ancestral Puebloans to the National Park Service, are most famous for their cliff dwellings.
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| Project Description | In June 2005 Texas Tech University, the University of California at Berkeley, CyArk, and INSIGHT Digital undertook a research project in collaboration with the National Park Service to better understand how digital documentation could assist conservation activities at Mesa Verde National Park. Several archaeological sites at the park were documented as well as several artifacts housed in the site museum to demonstrate the advantages and capabilities of high definition survey and documentation. The project was funded by the Kacyra Family Foundation. |
| Collection Date | 0000-00-00 to 0000-00-00 |
| Publication Date | 2020-06-22 |
| License Type | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Citation |
| 2020: Square Tower House - Mesa Verde National Park - LiDAR - Terrestrial . Collected by CyArk , Texas Tech University , University of California at Berkeley , INSIGHT . Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.26301/cbtd-5b18 |
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