High-tech race to map Ukraine’s damaged historic buildings

At the end of the day, Durand assembles all the data on a computer 'like the pieces of a jigsaw' to digitally reconstruct the building. — AFP Relaxnews

Many of Ukraine’s historic monuments have been destroyed in the three months since Russia invaded, but cultural experts are working to conserve their memory using cutting-edge technology and 3D scans.

One of them is volunteer French engineer Emmanuel Durand, a specialist in 3D data acquisition, who is assisting a bevy of architects, engineers, historic building experts and a museum director to record buildings in Kyiv, Lviv, Chernigiv and Kharkiv.