What Makes a Better Surface Elevation Model: On-the-Ground Total Station or Low Altitude Lidar?
Author(s): Angela Collins; Mary De la Garza
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Recent excavations on two small pre-contact archaeological sites in southeast Iowa provided an opportunity to conduct drone-mounted low-altitude aerial lidar in addition to the standard total station methodology to develop ground surface elevations and contours. The drone used for the projects was the industrial grade mapping inspection drone, DJI Matrice 300 RTK with base station. It was equipped with the DJI Zenmuse L1 lidar + RGB survey camera. With minimal leaf cover during the early spring of 2023, the lidar instrument provided highly detailed ground point data. This poster will compare the results gathered from the two technologies when analyzed independently as well as combined to determine which one reigns supreme.
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What Makes a Better Surface Elevation Model: On-the-Ground Total Station or Low Altitude Lidar?. Angela Collins, Mary De la Garza. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 500130)
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Keywords
General
Ceramic Analysis
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Cultural Resource Management
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LiDAR
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Woodland
Geographic Keywords
North America: Midwest
Spatial Coverage
min long: -103.975; min lat: 36.598 ; max long: -80.42; max lat: 48.922 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 41702.0