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Applications

Museum and Heritage

The VIT Group has undertaken various Museum and Heritage Demonstration Projects which have included digitizing museum collections, paintings, sculpture, archaeological objects and sites as well as architectural and historic building elements. The results have shown that the technology can be applied to a variety of traditional applications, as well as new ones including archival documentation, exhibition and display, research, art conservation archaeology, and 3D virtual theatre and virtual museum activities.

• Museum Applications
• Remote Recording of Archaeological and Architectural Site Features
• Art Connoisseurship and Conservation Research
• 3D Virtual Museum Display Applications

List of Related Papers in Cultural Heritage from VIT Group

Space

The VIT Group has developed unique 3D scanning technology for space applications. The 3D camera is designed to automatically track moving targets and to operate under the extreme lighting conditions found in space. The prototype system underwent demonstration tests with NASA in 1994 and 1998 and subsequently was licensed to Neptec Inc. in 2000.  From the original NRC design and software, Neptec successfully built a space qualified laser scanner that was tested on board space shuttle flight STS-105 in 2001.  This was followed by the development by Neptec of the Laser Camera System (LCS), which was used by NASA during the Discovery Shuttle mission in July 2005 to inspect the heat shield for damage and cracks. The 3D data collected by the LCS was converted into a 3D model for analysis using PolyWorks software from Québec-based InnovMetric Software, another NRC licensee.

• A Real-Time 3D Laser Tracking and Imaging System developed jointly with Neptec
• Scanning and Modeling the Orbiter Docking System (ODS) at Kennedy Space Center (NASA)

List of Related Papers in Space Applications from VIT Group

Research Contact

Jacques Domey
Group Leader
Visual Information Technology
NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 341
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 993-2557
Fax: +1 (613) 952-0215
E-mail: Jacques.Domey@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Business Contact

Randall Milburn
Business Development Officer
Business Development Office, NCR
NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 201
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 990-6590
Fax: +1 (613) 952-0074
E-mail: Randall.Milburn@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca