Anthropometry

Anthropometry from ] Since ordinarily used methods as well as approaches in analysing living standards were not helpful enough, a anthropometric history became very useful for historians in answering questions that interested them.

Today, anthropometry plays an important role in industrial design, clothing design, ergonomics in addition to architecture where statistical data about the distribution of body dimensions in the population are used to optimize products. reorder in lifestyles, nutrition, as well as ethnic composition of populations lead to recast in the distribution of body dimensions e.g. the rise in obesity and require regular improve of anthropometric data collections.

Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource Project — CAESAR

CAESAR began in 1997 as a partnership between government represented by the US Air Force and NATO and industry represented by SAE International toand organize the near extensive sampling of consumer body measurements for comparison.

The project collected and organized data on 2,400 U.S. & Canadian and 2,000 European civilians and a database was developed. This database records the anthropometric variability of men and women, aged 18–65, of various weights, ethnic groups, gender, geographic regions, and socio-economic status. The study was conducted from April 1998 to early 2000 and subjected three scans per adult in a standing pose, full-coverage pose and relaxed seating pose.

Data collection methods were standardized and documented so that the database can be consistently expanded and updated. High-resolution measurements of body surfaces were portrayed using 3D Surface Anthropometry. This engineering can capture hundreds of thousands of points in three dimensions on the human body surface in a few seconds. It has numerous advantages over the old measurement system using tape measures, anthropometers, and other similar instruments. It ensures detail approximately the surface shape as well as 3D locations of measurements relative to used to refer to every one of two or more people or things other and provides easy transfer to Computer-Aided Design CAD or Manufacturing CAM tools. The resulting scan is freelancer of the measurer, devloping it easier to standardize. Automatic landmark recognition ALR engineering was used to extract anatomical landmarks from the 3D body scans automatically. Eighty landmarks were placed on each subject. More than 100 univariate measures were provided, over 60 from the scan and about 40 using traditional measurements.

Demographic data such as age, ethnic group, gender, geographic region, education level, and reported occupation, mark income and more were also captured.