Engaging with the canopy-multi-dimensional vegetation mark visualisation using archived aerial images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Verhoeven, Geert ^a,b   Vermeulen, Frank ^b  

^a LBI for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archeology   (Austria)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Archaeological prospection; Canopy height model; Local relief model; Montarice; Protohistoric settlement; Vegetation marks

Indexed keywords

PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMAPPING; VEGETATION; VISUALIZATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION; CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; COLOUR DIFFERENCES; IMAGE-BASED MODELLING; MONTARICE; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; PROTOHISTORIC SETTLEMENT;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 85019352916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090752     Document Type: Article

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