Image processing and analysis of radar and lidar data: new discoveries in Verona southern lowland (Italy)

Title

Image processing and analysis of radar and lidar data: new discoveries in Verona southern lowland (Italy)

Creator(s)

Burigana, Laura

Magnini, Luigi

Date

2017

Is Part Of

STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research

Volume

3

Issue

2

Pages

490–509

Language

eng

ISSN

null

Short Title

Image processing and analysis of radar and lidar data

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2018.1426273

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/J93L74UG/item-list

Abstract

This contribution proposes an evaluation of lidar and radar data processing and its potential in revealing archaeological features within a level plain environment, the southern lowland of Verona (Italy), focusing on evidences dating back to the Bronze Age. Many archaeological sites in the research area, including some of the most outstanding settlements of Terramare Culture, were identified or at least examined through aerial photo observation. Even if in several occasions modern agricultural activities contributed to the discoveries, bringing to the surface artifacts and scrapes of buried layers, this kind of impact has also been progressively deteriorating the archaeological record, hence the proto-historic landscape is now discernible through evanescent marks which cannot be always detected using customary optical sensors. Lidar and radar data analysis has then been considered as an alternative, non-invasive method of investigation on such a vast area.

Tag

Bronze Age

landscape archaeology

remote sensing

lidar

image processing

radar

Southern Verona lowland

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