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As well as optimizing the data collection and business efficiencies, UAV LiDAR is another way to preserve archaeological sites. Remote-sensing methods help researchers to comply with “conservation ethic” and make sure that any potential damage to historic sites is minimized
Flying LiDAR on drones requires significantly less time and resources, has hugely reduced the cost of such projects and improved productivity enabling results to be viewed nearly instantaneously.
As well as optimizing the data collection and business efficiencies, UAV LiDAR is another way to preserve archaeological sites. Remote-sensing methods help researchers to comply with “conservation ethic” and make sure that any potential damage to historic sites is minimized.
Drone based LiDAR offers huge potential to optimize the archaeological reconnaissance and survey process in the mine planning stage. During archaeological reconnaissance projects data is required across a range of scales from the highly minute of individual objects to distributions of cultural materials across entire landscapes. Cultural artefacts are often extended across large spatial areas, sometimes made more complicated with vegetation and tree coverage. Such data collection on the landscape scale has previously been time consuming and expensive.
To archeologists, models are permit to record and accurately log the excavations in case it's necessary to destroy it.
They’ll also use the 3-D models to ask new types of questions. For example, it's possible to measure volumes mud piles using drones. When a mud brick house collapses, how much contributes to these giant piles? Can we start to pull things apart about how many people lived in them and for how long?
Archeologist will wants to take close-ups of rock art to calculate how much rock they removed. From these measurements, they could potentially figure out whether certain symbols were more important to others.