Knowledge-based modelling of historical surfaces using lidar data

Veit Höfler; Christine Wessollek; Pierre Karrasch

doi:10.1117/12.2240388

18 October 2016 Knowledge-based modelling of historical surfaces using lidar data

Veit Höfler, Christine Wessollek, Pierre Karrasch

Proceedings Volume 10005, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VII; 100050G (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240388
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

Currently in archaeological studies digital elevation models are mainly used especially in terms of shaded reliefs for the prospection of archaeological sites. Hesse (2010) provides a supporting software tool for the determination of local relief models during the prospection using LiDAR scans. Furthermore the search for relicts from WW2 is also in the focus of his research. In James et al. (2006) the determined contour lines were used to reconstruct locations of archaeological artefacts such as buildings. This study is much more and presents an innovative workflow of determining historical high resolution terrain surfaces using recent high resolution terrain models and sedimentological expert knowledge. Based on archaeological field studies (Franconian Saale near Bad Neustadt in Germany) the sedimentological analyses shows that archaeological interesting horizon and geomorphological expert knowledge in combination with particle size analyses (Koehn, DIN ISO 11277) are useful components for reconstructing surfaces of the early Middle Ages. Furthermore the paper traces how it is possible to use additional information (extracted from a recent digital terrain model) to support the process of determination historical surfaces. Conceptual this research is based on methodology of geomorphometry and geo-statistics. The basic idea is that the working procedure is based on the different input data. One aims at tracking the quantitative data and the other aims at processing the qualitative data. Thus, the first quantitative data were available for further processing, which were later processed with the qualitative data to convert them to historical heights. In the final stage of the workflow all gathered information are stored in a large data matrix for spatial interpolation using the geostatistical method of Kriging. Besides the historical surface, the algorithm also provides a first estimation of accuracy of the modelling. The presented workflow is characterized by a high flexibility and the opportunity to include new available data in the process at any time.

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Veit Höfler, Christine Wessollek, and Pierre Karrasch "Knowledge-based modelling of historical surfaces using lidar data", Proc. SPIE 10005, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VII, 100050G (18 October 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240388

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