New Technique in Digital Photography may have Important Applications in the Study of Rock Art and other Scientific Applications:

My friend Teresa forwarded this information: from Southwest Archaeology Today, news from the Center for Desert Archaeology, in Tucson, AZ.

A technique called GigaPan can be used to take incredibly detailed photographs of rock art. Rock art expert Sandra Olsen and photographer Richard T. Bryant took this technology to Saudi Arabia to document its rock art, working with the Saudi Ministry of Education. You can view some of their results and see the marvelous detail the technique achieves online at

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101112-gigapan-science-panoramas-technology/