Beraldin, J.-AngeloBlais, FrancoisCournoyer, LucPicard, MichelGamache, DanielValzano, VirginiaBandiera, AdrianaGorgoglione, M. A.Marinos Ioannides and David Arnold and Franco Niccolucci and Katerina Mania2014-01-312014-01-3120063-905673-42-81811-864Xhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2312/VAST/VAST06/045-052The Grotta dei Cervi is a complex and fragile Neolithic cave where human presence left a large number of unique pictographs and petroglyphs. Detailed documentation necessitates recording it at different levels of details or spatial resolutions. A general approach would entail a combination of 3D data from different 3D sensors and information from different sources in order to meet set resolution targets. We used a prototype multi-resolution 3D laser imaging scanner that allowed acquiring the shape information of the three main chambers with a spatial resolution that improves with shorter standoffs. The system can record 3D data at a camera-to-object distance which ranges from 0.5 m to 10 m. At a standoff of 0.75 m, it provides a depth uncertainty of 0.08 mm and an optical lateral resolution of 0.2 mm on actual rock surfaces. This paper presents the project and the results obtained. The 10-day long visit into the Grotto generated more that 100 GB of 2D and 3D data that requires the development of new tools for modelling and managing the archive.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACMCCS): I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation - Digitizing and scanning