Remote Sensing Remote Islands: Error Analysis of Lidar-Based Archaeological Survey of the Small Cycladic Islands, Greece

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Cyclades, Greece, are islands with well-documented histories of human occupation and use. Among the larger islands in the archipelago there are many small, currently uninhabited islets with referenced land-use histories, including for agriculture and pasturage (goat islands). Despite these references, there have been few archaeological investigations into their individual use histories or into their role in broader Cycladic history. The Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP) seeks to understand the land-use history of these islets through lidar remote sensing and ground pedestrian survey. Using lidar, we model the entirety of each island to detect landscape features and create highly accurate digital elevation products useful for understanding the human relationship with the landscape over time. While proven to be useful for archaeological feature detection through dense forest cover, less attention has been given to lidar’s archaeological utility in the maquis shrubland and jagged topography common in the Mediterranean. Here we report our analysis of accuracy, error vectors, and utility of lidar survey conducted during the 2023 field season in the eastern Cycladic islets around Andros, Mykonos, Tinos, and Amorgos.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39725.0