Analysis with Lidar of Coastal Environments on Pohnpei

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

An airborne lidar data set collected over most of the island, and the entire coast, of Pohnpei, in the Federated States of Micronesia, allows for the development of a variety of digital models of the surveyed area. These models include digital terrain models (DTMs), which represent the surface of the ground without vegetation. Here we present some observations on the results of this survey, focusing on associations between anthropogenic modifications of Pohnpei's landscapes and the ecologies and productive capacities of those landscapes. We consider, for example, how modifications near the coast might differ from modifications farther inland.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 51265