Now you see it... Now you don't: Understanding airborne mapping LiDAR collection and data product generation for archaeological research in Mesoamerica

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9951-10001

  Fernandez Diaz, Juan Carlos ^a,b   Carter, William E ^a,b   Shrestha, Ramesh L ^a,b   Glennie, Craig L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NSF National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM)   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Archaeology; Digital elevation models; Mapping LiDAR; Mesoamerica; Point clouds; Prospection; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; HISTORY; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; ARCHAEOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MESOAMERICA; POINT CLOUD; PROSPECTION;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 84912141883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6109951     Document Type: Article

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