Spherical Photogrammetry as Rescue Documentation for the Reconstruction of Some UNESCO Sites in Syria

Abstract

In summer 2010, during a study journey, Fangi has got to realize photographic coverage of some UNESCO sites of Syria, according to the technique of panoramic photography. Those shoots have become important as a result of the outbreak of civil war, as documents useful for documentation, survey, and for any possible restoration of the monuments damaged or destroyed by war. It 's the case of the millenary minaret of Aleppo. With the technique of spherical panoramic photogrammetry, developed by Fangi, it was possible to carry out a survey of quantities and the virtual reconstruction of the minaret. So it was also done for the other UNESCO documented monuments as the Roman theater of Bosra, the great mosque of the Umayyad in Damascus, and the walls of the citadel of Aleppo and finally the minaret of the great mosque in Aleppo. The detailed description of the project will be made in the work that will be presented in the next international conference UID (XXXV International Congress of Teachers of Representation) to be held in October in Matera, Italy, on Cultural Heritage Sites. The serious damage that the civil war has caused to the Syrian heritage make the documentation of these monuments by UNESCO a key element for their conservation, possible restoration and memory.