Gigapans and the Legal Professional and Social Analys
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Gigapans and the Social Sciences
Karl M. Kindt III Webster University, Southwestern Illinois College and Lewis, Rice & Fingersh kkindt@earthlink.net
ABSTRACT
Forensic scientists, social scientists, educators, attorneys and real estate agents have been provided with a remarkable tool for analysis and marketing with the advent of gigapan imagery. The key to use of this new imaging technology is imagination. IMAGINE how the technology can be used to deepen the understanding of moments in time. Although a gigapan image might take 20 minutes to create if a large area is being imaged, that 20 minutes reveals a place in time like no other human technology and preserves for future generations of educators and social scientists an aspect of reality never before captured.
Keywords
Photography, forensic, sociologists, political scientists, art analysis, attorneys, educators, real estate
INTRODUCTION
This paper focuses on the use of Gigapixel imagery in the social sciences which are defined here as any science that deals with the social/societal aspects of human community including the following disciplines: sociology, political science, criminology/forensic science, cultural sciences dealing with cultural artifacts such as artistic manifestations of the human community, economics including real estate marketing and the science of marketing products. The use of these images by legal professionals is also explored.