LiDAR-guided Archaeological Survey of a Mediterranean Landscape

Autor(en)

Benedikt Grammer, Erich Draganits, Martin Gretscher, Ulrike Muss

Abstrakt

In 2013, an airborne laser scan survey was conducted in the territory of the Ionian city of Kolophon near the western coast of modern Turkey as part of an archaeological survey project carried out by the Mimar Sinan University of Istanbul (Turkey) and the University of Vienna (Austria). Several light detection and ranging (LiDAR) studies have been carried out in the temperate climate zones of Europe, but only a few in Mediterranean landscapes. Our study is based on the first LiDAR survey carried out for an archaeological purpose in Turkey and one of the first in the Mediterranean that have been planned, measured and filtered especially for archaeological research questions. The interpretation of LiDAR data combined with ground-observations proved extremely useful for the detection and documentation of archaeological remains below Mediterranean evergreen vegetation and dense maquis. This article deals with the methodological aspects of interpreting LiDAR data, using the Kolophon data as a case study. We offer a discussion of the strengths and limitations of LiDAR as an archaeological remote sensing method and suggest a best practice model for interpreting LiDAR data in a Mediterranean context.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Institut für Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie, Institut für Geologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Archäologische Prospektion und Virtuelle Archäologie

Journal

Archaeological Prospection

Band

24

Seiten

311-333

Anzahl der Seiten

23

ISSN

1075-2196

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1572

Publikationsdatum

12-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

105101 Allgemeine Geologie, 601003 Archäologie, 207401 3D-Vermessung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

History, Archaeology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/85ab485c-e4f0-4af2-ab9a-e77d896046b5