Alfredo Prada
Alfredo Prada has a total of 6 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Carmen De Las Heras
Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Ministerio de Cultura, 39330 Santillana del Mar, Spain
1 shared publication - Elena Castillo
Department of Geographic Engineering and Techniques of Graphical Expression, University of Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, 39005 Santander, Spain
1 shared publication - Francisco García
Department of Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera, s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
1 shared publication - Lucía M. Díaz-González
Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Ministerio de Cultura, 39330 Santillana del Mar, Spain
1 shared publication - Pilar Fatás
Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Ministerio de Cultura, 39330 Santillana del Mar, Spain
1 shared publication - Vicente Bayarri
GIM Geomatics, S.L. C/Conde Torreanaz 8, 39300 Torrelavega, Spain
1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- Open Access
- 16 February 2023
- Published by MDPI AG in Remote Sensing
- Vol. 15 (4) , 1087
Integration of Remote-Sensing Techniques for the Preventive Conservation of Paleolithic Cave Art in the Karst of the Altamira Cave
Rock art offers traces of our most remote past and was made with mineral and organic substances in shelters, walls, or the ceilings of caves. As it is notably fragile, it is fortunate that some instances remain intact—but a variety of natural and anthropogenic factors can lead to its disappearance. Therefore, as a valuable cultural heritage, rock art requires special conservation and protection measures. Geomatic remote-sensing technologies such as 3D terrestrial laser scanning (3DTLS), drone flight, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) allow us to generate exhaustive documentation of caves and their environment in 2D, 2.5D, and 3D. However, only its combined use with 3D geographic information systems (GIS) lets us generate new cave maps with details such as overlying layer thickness, sinkholes, fractures, joints, and detachments that also more precisely reveal interior–exterior interconnections and gaseous exchange; i.e., the state of senescence of the karst that houses the cave. Information of this kind is of great value for the research, management, conservation, monitoring, and dissemination of cave art.
- 16 February 2023
- Published by MDPI AG in Remote Sensing
- Vol. 15 (4) , 1087
Open AccessIntegration of Remote-Sensing Techniques for the Preventive Conservation of Paleolithic Cave Art in the Karst of the Altamira Cave
Rock art offers traces of our most remote past and was made with mineral and organic substances in shelters, walls, or the ceilings of caves. As it is notably fragile, it is fortunate that some instances remain intact—but a variety of natural and anthropogenic factors can lead to its disappearance. Therefore, as a valuable cultural heritage, rock art requires special conservation and protection measures. Geomatic remote-sensing technologies such as 3D terrestrial laser scanning (3DTLS), drone flight, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) allow us to generate exhaustive documentation of caves and their environment in 2D, 2.5D, and 3D. However, only its combined use with 3D geographic information systems (GIS) lets us generate new cave maps with details such as overlying layer thickness, sinkholes, fractures, joints, and detachments that also more precisely reveal interior–exterior interconnections and gaseous exchange; i.e., the state of senescence of the karst that houses the cave. Information of this kind is of great value for the research, management, conservation, monitoring, and dissemination of cave art.