From Low Cost UAV Survey to High Resolution Topographic Data: Developing our Understanding of a Medieval Outport of Bruges

Archaeological Prospection

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 335-346

  De Reu, Jeroen ^a   Trachet, Jan ^a   Laloo, Pieter ^b   De Clercq, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GATE bvba   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; decorrelation stretch; DSM; image based 3D reconstruction; orthophoto; structure from motion; topographic analysis; UAV

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990040770     PISSN: 10752196     EISSN: 10990763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arp.1547     Document Type: Article

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