In this course, students will work in cross-disciplinary groups to design projects around the problem of digital documentation of climatically endangered sites.

Climatically endangered natural and cultural heritage sites are disappearing at a rapid pace. Their digital documentation can both preserve our knowledge of their current state but also serve as a tool for education and communication on climatic change to a broad audience. A special emphasis of the class will be on utilizing VR/AR, photogrammetry, GIS, and gaming engines as platforms of digital documentation and dissemination. You will develop through this class skills in modern software tools such as the Unreal Engine 5, ArcGIS, and Reality Capture. The course is open to all majors and will introduce students to the topics and related tools mentioned above.

Instructor: Neil Smith
Teaching Assistant: Nour Hachem
Lecture: T/Th 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
Discussion: F 9:00 am - 9:50 am

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To learn more about preserving at-risk cultural heritage please visit CCAS