Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Image courtesy of Callen Lenz.
This year, as part of the Festival of British Archaeology, I am very lucky to be managing a dream geomatics project which has a load of associated special events for the Festival. As a frustrated pilot and a well known geek, I love my gadgets, particularly those which fly. Well, this year, all my Christmas’s have come at once. Continue reading
I’ve been meaning to have a proper go with Storify for a while now and so have taken the opportunity to document a recent talk I gave and some follow up discussions. As usual, presentation itself is on Slideshare.
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3D Laser Scanning for Heritage
As I posted recently, the new revised edition of the laser scanning guidance from English Heritage has now been published.
The new version features features three case studies based on Wessex Archaeology projects. More information on these projects can be found on the geomatics case studies pages at the Wessex Achaeology website.
The document can be downloaded as a pdf from the English Heritage website here.
Following on from my last post, I’ve posted my presentation given at this years CAA UK conference to Slideshare. The subject was the use of terrestrial and airborne laser scanning in heritage contexts and made use of a number of case studies from work, which will shortly be published on the Wessex Archaeology computing blog in more detail. Continue reading
Some of my colleagues and I were recently interviewed by the Institution of Engineering and Technology about our work and a video to accompany the magazine article is now online as reported by Wessex Archaeology.
I spoke about GIS, survey techniques and laser scanning and the online video includes some footage of a castle scan I’m currently working on. This footage of the laser scan data is a preliminary version of something that will shortly be available on the Wessex Archaeology website as part of some webpages relating to that project. There will be more on this here and over at the Wessex Archaeology blogs.
Laser scanning is becoming increasingly important as a tool for capturing 3D data relating to sites, monuments, buildings and even entire landscapes by using airborne LiDAR systems. Recent projects have been some of the biggest and most detailed to date and the upcoming web pages will reflect this; keep an eye on this site and the Wessex Archaeology blogs.