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Discovering Chan Chan: modern technologies for urban and architectural analysis

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Fig. 1 – Chan Chan. An aerial view of the monumental site (photo Consorcio Chimú, Odebrecht – Graña y Montero 1990).

Fig. 1 – Chan Chan. An aerial view of the monumental site (photo Consorcio Chimú...

Fig. 2 – The fuzzy unsupervised classification evidences the archaeological structures and the findings of one typical terrace pyramid (huaca) inside an intensive cultivation.

Fig. 2 – The fuzzy unsupervised classification evidences the archaeological stru...

Fig. 3 – GIS of Chan Chan.

Fig. 3 – GIS of Chan Chan.

Fig. 4 – Spatial selection of two “Palacios”: Rivero and Tschudi and their attributes.

Fig. 4 – Spatial selection of two “Palacios”: Rivero and Tschudi and their attri...

Fig. 5 – Palacio Rivero. A) Aerial view of the palace (Quickbird image 2003); B) A view of the internal structures; C) The survey of the double perimeter walls.

Fig. 5 – Palacio Rivero. A) Aerial view of the palace (Quickbird image 2003); B)...

Fig. 6 – 3D photogrammetric survey of the first sector of Palacio Rivero (Colosi et al. 2011, fig. 6).

Fig. 6 – 3D photogrammetric survey of the first sector of Palacio Rivero (Colosi...

Fig. 7 – 3D laser scanner survey of Palacio Rivero. A) First processing of the Plataforma de Entierro. In the image, the spheres that were used to merge the range maps are visible; B) 3D survey of some warehouses in the central sector.

Fig. 7 – 3D laser scanner survey of Palacio Rivero. A) First processing of the P...

Fig. 8 – Schematic sections of the perimetral walls of Ciudadela Rivero (n. 1 tapia, n. 2 adobe, n. 3 adobe coating of the tapia wall). A) Eastern wall of the N sector; B) Southern wall of the S sector; C) Western wall of the central sector; D) Eastern wall of the central sector.

Fig. 8 – Schematic sections of the perimetral walls of Ciudadela Rivero (n. 1 ta...

Fig. 9 – The outside of the southern wall of Ciudadela Rivero: the original structure in tapia at the centre and all around it an adobe coating.

Fig. 9 – The outside of the southern wall of Ciudadela Rivero: the original stru...

Fig. 10 – Ciudadela Rivero: warehouses in the central sector. A) Laser scanner survey; B) 3D virtual reconstruction (elaborated by Vittorio Lauro).

Fig. 10 – Ciudadela Rivero: warehouses in the central sector. A) Laser scanner s...

Colosi F., Gabrielli R., Orazi R., Malinverni E. 2013, Discovering Chan Chan: modern technologies for urban and architectural analysis, Archeologia e Calcolatori 24