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The potential of airborne lidar for detection of archaeological features under woodland canopies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

B.J. Devereux ,
G.S. Amable ,
P. Crow  and
A.D. Cliff
B.J. Devereux
Affiliation:
Unit for Landscape Modelling, University of Cambridge, Sir William Hardy Building, Tennis Court Rd. Cambridge, CB2 1QB, UK (Email: bjd1@cam.ac.uk)
G.S. Amable
Affiliation:
Unit for Landscape Modelling, University of Cambridge, Sir William Hardy Building, Tennis Court Rd. Cambridge, CB2 1QB, UK
P. Crow
Affiliation:
Environmental and Human Sciences Division, Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey, GU10 4LH, UK
A.D. Cliff
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK
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Abstract

The development of lidar opens a new era in archaeological survey. Working with Forest Research, staff of the Unit for Landscape Modelling here explain the technique, and demonstrate its application to woodland, showing how it can be used to see through the trees. The article by Bewley et al. (pages 636-647 of this volume) shows the technique applied to the Stonehenge landscape.

Keywords

Airborne lidararchaeological sitesforest canopyvegetation removal
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Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 305 , September 2005 , pp. 648 - 660
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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