Brian was recently added to an international research team with participants from UNL, Dartmouth College, and NYU to document a 13th century Franciscan convent in Tuscany through photogrammetry and LiDAR. This project is part of a larger interdisciplinary research endeavor which is seeks to better understand the pilgrimage and environmental aspects of this area.

_{Elevation view of dense point cloud of Franciscan ruins}

_{Plan overlay with historical reconstruction and dense point cloud}