Thermal hyperspectral material characterization for Art Conservation based on hypercubes. University of Antwerp
In the study of historical paintings and more specifically as a preparation for restoration activities of such artefacts, it is of great relevance to investigate which materials and degradation products are present and how these are distributed at or below the painting surface. Commonly used non-destructive in situ methods such as X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), are only used for spot analyses and require several minutes to ...