CIPA NEPAL HERITAGE SCHOOL 2025
“3D Surveying and Modelling Techniques for
Cultural Heritage Documentation”

Fulvio Rinaudo is a Full Professor in Geomatics at the Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He has held several prestigious academic and leadership roles, including Vice-Rector for Teaching and Scientific Activities at Turin Tashkent Polytechnic University in Uzbekistan (2021–2024) and President of ICOMOS ISC CIPA Heritage Documentation (2024–2027). He has also served as General Secretary of both the ICOMOS Italia Committee and CIPA-HD, and currently co-chairs ISPRS Working Group II/6 on Cultural Heritage Data Acquisition and Processing. Prof. Rinaudo is a key contributor to the ERASMUS+ ERAMCA project and a member of the Ph.D. School in Architectural Heritage at Politecnico di Torino. With over 320 scientific publications (SCOPUS h-index 24), his research interests include digital and analytical photogrammetry, terrestrial laser scanning, GIS applications for cultural heritage, HBIM, multispectral data integration, AI, and video photogrammetry. He is recognized internationally for advancing digital documentation and preservation of cultural heritage.

Andreas Georgopoulos is basically a Surveyor and Geomatics Engineer, who fell inlove with Photogrammetry about 50 years ago. Hence he obtained his MSc and PhD(UCL) on this subject and afterwards he chose to teach it to younger students as aProfessor at NTUA, Lab of Photogrammetry. Cultural Heritage and Monuments are hissecond love and all these years he is trying to make the one work for the other withsome success. He teaches Photogrammetry and Monument Recording toundergraduate and postgraduate students of Surveying, Architecture and Archaeology.His research activities include all kinds of contemporary optical methods forgeometrically documenting monuments of all sizes. Among others, he has worked forthe geometric documentation of Knossos (in Crete), of the Acropolis Hill, of the Churchof the Holy Sepulchre (in Jerusalem), of the Dafni Monastery (in Athens), ofmonasteries on Mount Athos, Byzantine Churches in Cyprus and many moremonuments all over Greece.

Margarita Skamantzari is a Senior Researcher and Project Manager at the Laboratory of Photogrammetry, School of Rural, Surveying, and Geomatics Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and at the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS). She holds a Master of Engineering in Rural, Surveying, and Geomatics Engineering (2017) and an MSc in Protection of Monuments (2019). With over six years of experience, she specializes in the geometric documentation of monuments, 3D modeling, laser scanning, photogrammetry, remote sensing, and virtual/augmented reality applications. Margarita actively contributes to EU Horizon projects and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration as Co-chair of the CIPA Emerging Professionals group and Expert Member. She has consistently participated in CIPA Summer Schools since 2019 across various international locations.

Laxmi earned her undergraduate degree in Geomatics Engineering from Kathmandu University, Nepal, in 2012. Since 2013, she has served as a Geomatics Engineer (Survey Officer) at the Survey Department under the Government of Nepal, contributing to various projects. From 2017 to 2019, she completed a master’s degree in Geospatial Technologies through the Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree Program, studying in Portugal, Germany, and Spain. She has been actively engaged in multi-disciplinary research, focusing on the application of geospatial technologies for Earth observation. In 2023, she spent a year at the University of Oxford as an early-stage researcher, investigating the vertical distribution of aerosols using multi-sensor data and machine learning. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at Aston University, UK, where her research explores the integration of emerging technologies into disaster management systems in Smart Cities.

She is also involved in research on the use of UAVs for developing Digital Twins. Laxmi serves as the President of the ISPRS Student Consortium (2022–2026) and has been actively involved in organizing capacity-building initiatives to foster knowledge exchange and networking among young professionals in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, and GIS on a national and global scale.

Er. Umesh Bhurtyal is the Head of the Department of Geomatics Engineering at Pashchimanchal Campus, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara. Appointed in April 2024, he also serves as the M.Sc. Program Coordinator for Geospatial Engineering. With a Master’s in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Er. Bhurtyal is an Assistant Professor whose research focuses on GIS, remote sensing, spatial analysis, and environmental modeling. His scholarly contributions include studies on urban growth prediction, flood hazard mapping, and weather forecasting using deep learning. He is actively involved in academic collaboration and research dissemination, contributing to Nepal’s geospatial science and education.