Employment and Applications of Airborne and Handheld Lidar Scanning at Calakmul

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The archaeological site of Calakmul has a long history of archaeological research and documentation, from the initial sketches and hand-drawn plans to those created using precise topographical instruments, to the recording of the different architectural spaces. Nowadays, the use of innovative technologies such as lidar opens new perspectives to appreciate the spatial distribution of architecture in and around the site. It allows us to recognize features on the ground that had not been detected before. During the 2023 field season of the Proyecto Arqueológico Bajo Laberinto, we had the opportunity to carry out a series of lidar surveys using a sensor with SLAM technology in different contexts within the site. This has allowed us to register distinct types of details in the architecture and to evaluate the use of this type of technology for different objectives such as detailed monitoring of the deterioration of the architecture or its use in places with difficult access.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 41555.0