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M. Doneus, C. Briese:
"Full-waveform airborne laser scanning as a tool for archaeological reconnaissance";
Talk: International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, Rom; 2006-12-04 - 2006-12-07; in: "From Space to Place. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology", BAR International Series, 1568 (2006), 99 - 105.

Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS), also referred to as LiDAR, is a rather new technique to produce dense and high precision measurements of the topography of the Earth´s surface (Ackermann, 1999; Kraus, 2004, 449-470; Wehr and Lohr, 1999). ALS finds application in archaeology because working with archaeological sites and landscapes involves also the description of topography. So far, ALS was used as a tool to produce detailed maps of archaeological sites showing in relief. But it has also a high potential to be used for detection of archaeological sites, especially in densely vegetated areas.
This paper therefore deals with the reconnaissance aspects of ALS. In April 2006, the project "LiDAR-Supported Archaeological Prospection in Woodland" was launched, which is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF P18674-G02). The goal of the project is to explore the potential of ALS for archaeological reconnaissance in a densely forested area; specifically, to evaluate an approx. 190 km² forest area within an archaeological case study. Using the data of a test scan, some issues are presented that have to be decided upon during its workflow, in order to use the output for the detection of archaeological sites.

LiDAR, ALS, Full-waveform Laserscanning, archaeological prospection, DTM, interpretation, hillfort, round barrow

http://aleph.ub.tuwien.ac.at/F?base=tuw01&func=find-c&ccl_term=AC06586749

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_120639.pdf

Project Head Christian Briese:
Full-waveform Laserscanning für die archäologische Prospektion in Waldgebieten (KE 2008 offen)

Project Head Wolfgang Wagner:
Christian Doppler Labor für Räumliche Daten aus Laserscanning und Fernerkundung 2006