Today there is an extensive surface-science heritage of understanding, and there are examples of catalysis phenomena that are now understood from the fundamentals.
Isotope measurements are also applied in many other fields such as forensics, food and beverage industry, environmental sciences, history, heritage science, and also utilized to detect forgeries in art.
Reconstructing a 3D shape from sample points is a central problem faced in medical applications, reverse engineering, natural sciences, cultural heritage projects, etc.
As Gooderson says: "The content can be related to maths, to science, to heritage, to geography.
This phenomenon shows that the science of heritage studies did not pay attention to its own theoretical framework and failed to build its methodology, bringing about much confusion in research, application and management of the heritages themselves.
All the procedures above described can be considered part of heritage science, as defined by The National Heritage Science Forum [82]: "Heritage science plays a vital part in understanding and preserving [our] heritage and, equally importantly, in giving us fuller understanding and appreciation of its significance".
However this task is fundamental for applications in forensic or cultural heritage sciences and for the industrial characterization of materials.
He is the director of STARLAB, a mobile laboratory facility for heritage sciences, performing in situ physic-chemical measurements and digital documentation and analysis on archaeological sites, heritage monuments, artefacts and works of art.
As such, heritage science can be viewed as an applied science, in which 'impact' is always an intention.
The project team was formed of twelve specialists, some with expertise in two or more disciplines, including: archaeology, art history and museology, conservation and heritage science, chemistry and electrochemistry, mechatronics and engineering, metrology, computer science, computer graphics and data processing.
