DOCUMENTATION OF HISTORICAL STRUCTURES IN THE COURTYARD OF MEVLANA MUSEUM BY TERRESTRIAL LIDAR AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY

Abstract

Mevlana Dervish Lodge, which is the place from where the ideas of Mevlana that embraces the world with tolerance, love and humanistic values had been spread, is today a museum sheltering the tomb of Mevlana. It is visited by people from all around the world. The Mevlana Museum is the form of a social complex that has many surrounding historical structures. There is no documentation reflecting the current status of structures around the building due to either lack of performance of a detailed documentation or modifications made in time. In this study; kitchen, dervish rooms and historical ablution fountain within the courtyard of the Mevlana Museum have been measured and documented in detail by terrestrial laser scanning and photogrammetry methods. The laser scanning measurements have been registered consecutively by the iterative closest point (ICP) method, and point cloud model has been composed. Global registration has been applied to point cloud model which has been created in order to decrease the error resulting from the registration consecutively. Then three-dimensional (3D) digital models have been composed by covering the point cloud with texture by the photogrammetric images. Moreover, detail measurements of the object have been provided by composing the inter section of the model with the determined reference plane and digital elevation model has been generated.