SUNRISE Summer School

About the Event

SUNRISE is a SIFET summer school in cooperation with ISPRS. It will involve international students and professional surveyors with different backgrounds (e.g. archaeologists, architects, engineers, etc.) for the documentation of an archaeological site and the surrounding environment with several geomatics techniques.

The main objective is to provide the participants with a general overview of the state of the art of the different geomatics techniques that can be used for the documentation of both the Cultural Heritage (emerged and submerged) and the environment in which it is located, constituting the coastal heritage.

The activities

The summer school activities will foresee both interactive lectures, fieldwork activities, and data processing and interpretation with the involved participants. They will be divided into working groups on the basis of their background; each group will work on a specific topic during the week of the summer school starting from the data acquisition and processing, toward their use for different purposes.

The works of the participants will then be collected in a single report that will be published online and will be freely available to the public in order to disseminate the results obtained by the summer school.

SIFET

SIFET (Italian Society of Photogrammetry and Topography) is a voluntary association of scholars, technicians, and public and private organizations interested in the processes of acquisition, processing, management, and dissemination of territorial information, with particular reference to the methodologies and technologies of photogrammetry, topography, and geodesy related to such processes. (https://www.sifet.org/sifet/presentazione/ )

ISPRS

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is a non-governmental organization devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing and their applications. The Society operates without any discrimination on grounds of race, religion, nationality, or political philosophy. The official languages are English, French and German.
The Society's scientific interests include photogrammetry, remote sensing, spatial information systems and related disciplines, as well as applications in cartography, geodesy, surveying, natural, Earth and engineering sciences, and environmental monitoring and protection. Further applications include industrial design and manufacturing, architecture and monument preservation, medicine and others.
In 2017 ISPRS has introduced the Education and Capacity Building Initiatives to support projects of interest to the ISPRS community. The SUNRISE summer school has been one of the project awarded in 2024 (https://www.isprs.org/society/ecbi/default.aspx ).

CIPA

CIPA is one of the oldest International Scientific Committees of ICOMOS (International Council of Monuments and Sites), jointly founded in 1968 with ISPRS (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) to facilitate the transfer of technology from the measurements sciences into the heritage documentation and recording disciplines.

CIPA originally stood for Comité International de la Photogrammétrie Architecturale (English: “International Committee of Architectural Photogrammetry”).

However, this old but well-known name no longer describes the full scope of CIPA activities, so CIPA Heritage Documentation was established. (https://www.cipaheritagedocumentation.org/)