This is a 3D model generated from drone imagry posted by Digital Smoke Signals . It depicts continued drilling at one of two sites on the shores of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota as captured on Nov 19th 2016. As of Nov 19th, the Army Corp of Engineers has not issued the necessary permit required to drill under lake Oahe and have issued a statement saying that construction is not allowed on Corp’s land . It was created via photogrammetry, a process that allows 3D models to be generated from photos. Photogrammetry plays an important role in digital preservation which is a field concerned with protecting and documenting fragile and irreplacable assets such as museum artifacts. This is an experiment in using that technology as a tool for journalism, active cultural preservation and as a tool to document environmental degredation.
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