A Multisensor Approach to Analysing Archaeological Remains

Abstract
Airborne laser scanning (ALS) and digital spectral data were collected by the NERC Airborne Research and Survey Facility (ARSF) for an area of 12km2 centred to the south east of Upavon, Wiltshire, with the purpose of enhancing the understanding of the use of multisensor survey for prospection and analysis of archaeological remains. The area lies on the East Range of Salisbury Plain Army Training Area and was selected for the study due to the quantity of archaeological remains in varying states of preservation. The project was supported by equipment loans from the NERC Geophysical Equipment Facility (GEF) and Field Spectroscopy Facility (FSF). The Leica 1200 GPS system borrowed from the GEF was used as a base station for the aerial data collection, to locate the areas for simultaneous geophysical prospection and to provide ground control points to assess and improve the accuracy of the Digital Elevation Model (DEM).
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Selected external publications resulting from this GEF loan
- Bennett, R., 2011, Archaeological remote sensing : visualisation and analysis of grass-dominated environments using airborne laser scanning and digital spectral data , University of Bournemouth, PhD Thesis
- Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2012, The application of vegetation indices for the prospection of archaeological features in grass-dominated environments, Archaeological Prospection, 19(3), pp209-218
- Bennett, R., Welham, K., Hill, R.A. and Ford, A.L.J., 2012, A comparison of visualisation techniques for models created from airborne laser scanned data, Archaeological Prospection, 19, pp41-48
