KEYWORDS: Clouds, Systems modeling, Roads, Geodesy, Image processing, Agriculture, Chemical analysis, Statistical analysis, Soil science, Chemical elements
Advances in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and optical sensors of various types provide new opportunities for collecting and processing a remote sensing data of a new quality. Applying UAVs to acquire high-resolution imagery makes it possible to produce a digital elevation model (DEM) of high quality and resolution. New quality of an available DEMs allows to analyze small details of the land surface and to retrieve valuable information about hidden archaeological content. Our study addresses to creating and analysing of DEM of large-scale and high-resolution for detecting the traces of hidden ancient artefacts at archaeological sites. The survey for acquiring an imagery for this study has been carried out at Taman Peninsula (Russia) as a part of Russian State Historical Museum expedition aimed at studying of the Bosporan Kingdom (VI-I century BC). We presents the developed techniques for UAV imagery processing which provides improved accuracy of photogrammetric 3D measurements comparing with standard photogrammetric image processing by commercial software. These approaches have been developed for interpretation of terrain models for predicting possible spatial distribution of archaeological artefacts. The proposed techniques allows creating large-scaled digital terrain models of the archaeological sites which can serve for more reliable archaeological prediction and accurate geo-positioning of possible findings. It has showed that the developed techniques provide accurate high quality DEM and serve as useful tool for archaeological sites analyses and predictions.
KEYWORDS: 3D modeling, Data modeling, 3D image processing, 3D acquisition, Data fusion, Unmanned aerial vehicles, Data acquisition, Digital cameras, Calibration, Information visualization
The quality of archaeological sites documenting is of great importance for cultural heritage preserving and investigating. The progress in developing new techniques and systems for data acquisition and processing creates an excellent basis for achieving a new quality of archaeological sites documenting and visualization. archaeological data has some specific features which have to be taken into account when acquiring, processing and managing. First of all, it is a needed to gather as full as possible information about findings providing no loss of information and no damage to artifacts. Remote sensing technologies are the most adequate and powerful means which satisfy this requirement. An approach to archaeological data acquiring and fusion based on remote sensing is proposed. It combines a set of photogrammetric techniques for obtaining geometrical and visual information at different scales and detailing and a pipeline for archaeological data documenting, structuring, fusion, and analysis. The proposed approach is applied for documenting of Bosporus archaeological expedition of Russian State Historical Museum.
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