id
	12067
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/12067
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Image processing and visualisation of rock art laser scans from Loups’s Hill, County Durham
Creator
	Lymer, Kenneth
Date
	2015
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Contemporary rock art researchers have a wide choice of 3D laser scanners available to them for recording stone surfaces and this is complimented by numerous software packages that are able to process point cloud data. Though ESRI’s ArcGIS primarily handles geographical data, it also offers the ability to visualise XYZ data from a stone surface. In this article the potential of ArcGIS for rock art research is explored by focusing on 3D data obtained from two panels of cup and ring marks found at Loups’s Hill, County Durham, England. A selection of methods commonly utilised in LiDAR studies, which enhance the identification of landscape features, are also conducted upon the rock panels, including DSM normalisation and raster data Principle Component Analysis (PCA). Collectively, the visualisations produced from these techniques facilitate the identification of the rock art motifs, but there are limitations to these enhancements that are also discussed.
Is Part Of
	Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Cited by
	11056
Doi
	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2015.01.002
Issn
	2212-0548
Issue
	2
Pages
	155-165
Uri
	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221205481500003X
Volume
	2
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/BNE2C455/item-list
In series
	Digital imaging techniques for the study of prehistoric rock art

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