ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 ISPRS Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B5-541-2012 PHOTOGRAMMETRIC AND LIDAR DOCUMENTATION OF THE ROYAL CHAPEL (CATHEDRAL-MOSQUE OF CORDOBA, SPAIN) Cardenal J. 1 Perez-Garcia J. L. 1 Mata E. 1 Hernandez M. A. 1 Mozas A. 1 Delgado J. 1 Lopez-Arenas A. 1 Meroño J. E. 2 Dept. of Cartographic, Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineering, High Polytechnical School of Jaen. University of Jaen, Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n, 23071-Jaen, Spain Dept. of Graphic and Geomatic Engineering, University of Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, 14071- Cordoba, Spain 30 07 2012 XXXIX-B5 541 546 Copyright: © 2012 J. Cardenal et al. 2012 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XXXIX-B5/541/2012/isprs-archives-XXXIX-B5-541-2012.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XXXIX-B5/541/2012/isprs-archives-XXXIX-B5-541-2012.pdf

At present, cultural heritage documentation projects use a variety of spatial data acquisition techniques such as conventional surveying, photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning. This paper deals with a full documentation project based on all those techniques in the Royal Chapel located in the Cathedral-Mosque of Cordoba in Spain, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. At present, the Royal Chapel is under study for a detailed diagnostic analysis in order to evaluate the actual state of the chapel, pathologies, construction phases, previous restoration works, material analysis, etc. So in order to assist the evaluation, a documentation project with photogrammetric and laser scanner techniques (TLS) has been carried out. With this purpose, accurate cartographic and 3D products, by means of the integration of both image and laser based techniques, were needed to register all data collected during the diagnostic analysis.