A cloud-based architecture for processing and dissemination of 3D landscapes online

The european project ARIADNE aimed at setting up the infrastructure of archaeological datasets, while E-RIHS is currently the EU infrastructure for the Heritage Science. During these projects, CNR ITABC has developed a cloud-based and modular architecture of web services, aimed at supporting the research, enabling archaeologists to build 3d landscapes starting from geospatial databases and to visualise them interactively online, on desktop and on mobile systems. The cloud services have been designed to support both reality-based archaeological landscapes (territories or sites as they appear today) and interpreted landscapes (past landscapes reconstructed in a certain historical period). We present here their web-based architecture and responsive components, and also the solutions we have adopted to remove common processing bottlenecks and offer a smooth integration in landscape reconstruction and interpretation workflow.