Current and Potential Applications of Satellite-Borne Lidar to Archaeological Research and Conservation
Author(s): Jacob Comer; Douglas Comer; Adrian Borsa; Bruce Chapman; Benjamin Holt
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.
With the advent of certain satellite-borne lidar instruments, the availability of free and extensive lidar data suitable for archaeological applications has become plausible. Here we use an airborne lidar data set collected over the island of Pohnpei, in the Federated States of Micronesia, as a reference to test the utility of two satellite-borne lidar data sets, being collected by NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) and Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) missions, for identifying and characterizing archaeological landscapes and features. Though these tasks are currently challenging, we offer observations on how satellite altimetry data products could become more readily applicable to archaeological research and conservation in the future.
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Current and Potential Applications of Satellite-Borne Lidar to Archaeological Research and Conservation. Jacob Comer, Douglas Comer, Adrian Borsa, Bruce Chapman, Benjamin Holt. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 500166)
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Pacific Islands
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min long: 117.598; min lat: -29.229 ; max long: -75.41; max lat: 53.12 ;
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Abstract Id(s): 41716.0