TRATAMIENTO DE DATOS TLS MEDIANTE EL EMPLEO DE IMÁGENES ESFÉRICAS: APLICACIÓN A LA DOCUMENTACIÓN DE LA SALA CAPITULAR DE LA CATEDRAL DE JAÉN

Nowadays, one of the techniques more used for documentation of cultural heritage is terrestrial laser scanner (TLS). This kind of instrumental has become essential in this kind of heritage projects. However, in many projects, the captured information by these systems are excessive, which hinders its data processing and information extraction. But when the documentation purpose is limited to the visualization or dissemination, the final products can be simpler than those obtained from the dense point clouds and the resulting detailed models. In this paper it is presented an approach based on TLS data processed with spherical images algorithms. TLS point clouds are used to simulate spherical images allowing the storage, processing, visualization and dissemination of both data and products. This approach has been applied to a real study case in the documentation of the chapterhouse of the Cathedral of Jaén.