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The
Nasca Lines around Palpa are currently investigated by archaeologists
and geodesists from Switzerland, Germany, and Peru. A photogrammetric
analysis of high resolution aerial images allowed the accurate
3D recording of more than 1500 geoglyphs, most of which have
also been thoroughly described in the field. A digital 3D
model of the area of investigation is the first important
result of this effort. However, the vectors recorded during
the mapping process that mark the preserved outlines of the
geoglyphs do not coincide with the geoglyphs themselves, which
contain also an interior surface. Furthermore, they show certain
traits important for an archaeological analysis, some of which
(geometric attributes like location, size, and orientation)
can be derived from the processed vector data, while others
(contextual attributes like stratigraphic relations and associated
objects) have been recorded during fieldwork. An important
prerequisite for the intended GIS-based analysis of our data
is to define meaningful archaeological objects (i. e., the
geoglyphs) and assign them different kinds of attributes like
those mentioned above. In this paper we describe the original
data, the process of object definition, and our data model
and discuss some preliminary results.
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