Employment, Utilization, and Development of Airborne Laser Scanning in Fenno-Scandinavian Archaeology — a Review
This paper gives a presentation of how airborne laser scanning (ALS) has been adopted in archaeology in the North over the period 2005–2019. Almost two decades have passed since ALS first emerged as a potential tool to add to the archaeologist’s toolbox. Soon after, it attracted the attention of res...
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ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/2655301 2023-05-15T16:12:19+02:00 Employment, Utilization, and Development of Airborne Laser Scanning in Fenno-Scandinavian Archaeology — a Review Risbøl, Ole Langhammer, Daniel Mauritsen, Esben Schlosser Seitsonen, Oula 2020 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2655301 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12091411 eng eng MDPI Remote Sensing. 2020, 12 (1411), 1-41. urn:issn:2072-4292 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2655301 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12091411 cristin:1810900 Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no CC-BY 1-41 12 Remote Sensing 1411 Peer reviewed Journal article 2020 ftntnutrondheimi https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12091411 2020-05-27T22:32:52Z This paper gives a presentation of how airborne laser scanning (ALS) has been adopted in archaeology in the North over the period 2005–2019. Almost two decades have passed since ALS first emerged as a potential tool to add to the archaeologist’s toolbox. Soon after, it attracted the attention of researchers within archaeological communities engaged with remote sensing in the Fenno-Scandinavian region. The first archaeological ALS projects gave immediate good results and led to further use, research, and development through new projects that followed various tracks. The bulk of the research and development focused on studying how well-suited ALS is for identifying, mapping, and documenting archaeological features in outfield land, mainly in forested areas. The poor situation in terms of lack of information on archaeological records in outfield areas has been challenging for research and especially for cultural heritage management for a long period of time. Consequently, an obvious direction was to study how ALS-based mapping of cultural features in forests could help to improve the survey situation. This led to various statistical analyses and studies covering research questions related to for instance effects on detection success of laser pulse density, and the size and shape of the targeted features. Substantial research has also been devoted to the development and assessment of semi-automatic detection of archaeological features based on the use of algorithms. This has been studied as an alternative approach to human desk-based visual analyses and interpretations of ALS data. This approach has considerable potential for detecting sites over large regions such as the vast roadless and unbuilt wilderness regions of northern Fennoscandia, and has proven highly successful. In addition, the current review presents how ALS has been employed for monitoring purposes and for landscape studies, including how it can influence landscape understanding. Finally, the most recent advance within ALS research and development has been discussed: testing of the use of drones for data acquisition. In conclusion, aspects related to the utilization of ALS in archaeological research and cultural heritage management are summarized and discussed, together with thoughts about future perspectives. publishedVersion © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandia NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Remote Sensing 12 9 1411 |
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This paper gives a presentation of how airborne laser scanning (ALS) has been adopted in archaeology in the North over the period 2005–2019. Almost two decades have passed since ALS first emerged as a potential tool to add to the archaeologist’s toolbox. Soon after, it attracted the attention of researchers within archaeological communities engaged with remote sensing in the Fenno-Scandinavian region. The first archaeological ALS projects gave immediate good results and led to further use, research, and development through new projects that followed various tracks. The bulk of the research and development focused on studying how well-suited ALS is for identifying, mapping, and documenting archaeological features in outfield land, mainly in forested areas. The poor situation in terms of lack of information on archaeological records in outfield areas has been challenging for research and especially for cultural heritage management for a long period of time. Consequently, an obvious direction was to study how ALS-based mapping of cultural features in forests could help to improve the survey situation. This led to various statistical analyses and studies covering research questions related to for instance effects on detection success of laser pulse density, and the size and shape of the targeted features. Substantial research has also been devoted to the development and assessment of semi-automatic detection of archaeological features based on the use of algorithms. This has been studied as an alternative approach to human desk-based visual analyses and interpretations of ALS data. This approach has considerable potential for detecting sites over large regions such as the vast roadless and unbuilt wilderness regions of northern Fennoscandia, and has proven highly successful. In addition, the current review presents how ALS has been employed for monitoring purposes and for landscape studies, including how it can influence landscape understanding. Finally, the most recent advance within ALS research and development has been discussed: testing of the use of drones for data acquisition. In conclusion, aspects related to the utilization of ALS in archaeological research and cultural heritage management are summarized and discussed, together with thoughts about future perspectives. publishedVersion © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
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Employment, Utilization, and Development of Airborne Laser Scanning in Fenno-Scandinavian Archaeology — a Review |
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Employment, Utilization, and Development of Airborne Laser Scanning in Fenno-Scandinavian Archaeology — a Review |
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Employment, Utilization, and Development of Airborne Laser Scanning in Fenno-Scandinavian Archaeology — a Review |
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Employment, Utilization, and Development of Airborne Laser Scanning in Fenno-Scandinavian Archaeology — a Review |
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employment, utilization, and development of airborne laser scanning in fenno-scandinavian archaeology — a review |
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