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-: Essentially we're an interdisciplinary team
using technology and collaborative story telling methods
across architecture and emerging media arts
as a way to bring in the past and help shape the future.
We work between the physical into the digital,
and vice versa.
Currently we're using LiDAR scans,
photogrammetry via drone capture
that Rogue out of Kansas City captured,
we are also experimenting with NeRF's,
neuro radiance fields, real time 3D technologies,
in addition to 2D video and images.
Essentially we're trying to create
a new language collage of different story telling methods.
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Jordan: So we can see my little cursor here flying.
The little white line there is the path,
so you can see the zig zag I flew before,
and it's currently flying,
I don't like to zoom out over here to the green dot
to start its path.
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There's its current view.
-: We can create 3D meshes or things along that line,
but we could still do several hundred acres fairly quickly
and generate topos and contour maps.
We typically are doing buildings, so a lot smaller area,
but being able to do that in a very rapid
or short amount of time
as opposed to where we do it with a laser scanner.
-: I am Ash Eliza Smith, I work here
at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts,
and I run a lab here that has a working group
that focuses on expanded realities.
Thinking about spatial story telling and locative media.
Our team compromises land use planners, place makers,
architects, engineers, community members, scholars,
and artists creators.
And one of our primary goals is to think
about how to go beyond a digital twin of a site
to create interactive stories.
The extraordinary history of the missile silo
combined with its repurposed objectives
will also provide novel opportunities
for engagement, education, and tourism.
-: My name's Brian Kelly,
I'm Associate Professor of Architecture
in the College of Architecture.
And one of my research agendas
is into the abandoned Atlas F Cold War missile silos,
and specifically looking at the construction of them,
and the ways in which they had to kind of
overcome some pretty major hurdles
to be able to get them built.
I'm using contemporary imaging technology,
photogrammetry and LiDAR to then be able to document
the way that they sit right now and comparing that
to the way that they were intended to be built
through the archival documents so from the 1960's,
so the construction documents.
So with Rogue visual design
we used a LiDAR to then understand
exactly dimensionally what the building looked like,
and you know its exact sizing and things like that.
They would use that then to well first of all,
visualize the project, but then to be able to verify
whether or not their designs fit within the existing space,
and then to you know build a complete and accurate
sub as builds for it.
-: One of the main reasons why we need a facility like this
is that typically if you wanted
to do drilling down in Antarctica
you need to be able to test your permits.
Currently what they do is that they either drill
into a really really small test hole that they have.
Or else they pay to fly all the equipment
up into the Arctic regions, Alaska, places like that,
in order to drill into the ice there.
This would allow us to design an ice column
that you can kinda personalize to test new places.
The way we would've designed this ice column
if we wanna be able to have things like fresh ice,
or dirty ice, or maybe even drill into some water.
So we can customize that ice column
to be able to explore places
that haven't been explored in Antarctica yet.
-: So the university's had a really long history
of ice drilling as a result of some collaboration,
it goes back into the '70's and '80's and '90's
with the Polar Ice Coring Office
with the Ross Ice Drilling Project through here.
So this would be like the next step
to sustain a lot of the prior research
and technological development
supporting researchers in the polar regions
that would be held here at University of Nebraska
to be able to continue that legacy.
So University of Nebraska could stand out
as a leader in drilling ice drilling equipment technology
because we could design while we were testing
and really get things right.
We're probably looking, three, four,
perhaps eight years down the track if everything goes well.
And the beauty of a lot of this
is that it's not just the ice drilling test facility,
but there's so many broader portions of this as well
that come with Cold War history,
the legacy of the missileer that worked in these,
plus an opportunity in an education mode
to use this unique facility for education,
to bring you know climate change research to the front,
to bring drilling technology
which also folks you know folks here in Nebraska
with irrigation wells et cetera.
So it's a kind of a broad opportunity
to expand the universities reach with this facility,
and to really integrate across campus entities
a single purpose here to the benefit of Nebraskans,
the nation as well.
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