Low Altitude Thermal Survey by Means of an Automated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Detection of Archaeological Buried Structures

Archaeological Prospection

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 303-307

  Poirier, Nicolas ^a   Hautefeuille, Florent ^a   Calastrenc, Carine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aerial archaeology; Mapping; Remote sensing; Site detection; Thermal survey; UAV

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889099231     PISSN: 10752196     EISSN: 10990763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arp.1454     Document Type: Article

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