Drones in archaeology. State‐of‐the‐art and future perspectives

S Campana - Archaeological Prospection, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to traditional platforms for low‐level remote sensing (balloons, kites, etc.) new
and more complex automated systems [unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones] have …

[HTML][HTML] Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for monitoring soil erosion in Morocco

S d'Oleire-Oltmanns, I Marzolff, KD Peter, JB Ries - Remote sensing, 2012 - mdpi.com
This article presents an environmental remote sensing application using a UAV that is
specifically aimed at reducing the data gap between field scale and satellite scale in soil …

Towards a three-dimensional cost-effective registration of the archaeological heritage

J De Reu, G Plets, G Verhoeven, P De Smedt… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Archaeological practice within the European context of heritage management is facing huge
challenges in ways of recording and reproduction of ex-situ preserved sites. As a …

On introducing an image-based 3D reconstruction method in archaeological excavation practice

J De Reu, P De Smedt, D Herremans… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Image-based 3D modeling has already proven its value for the recording of excavations,
however until now its application has remained rather small-scale. We have examined the …

The impact of the calibration method on the accuracy of point clouds derived using unmanned aerial vehicle multi-view stereopsis

S Harwin, A Lucieer, J Osborn - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetric surveys, the camera can be pre-
calibrated or can be calibrated “on-the-job” using structure-from-motion and a self …

Mapping by matching: a computer vision-based approach to fast and accurate georeferencing of archaeological aerial photographs

G Verhoeven, M Doneus, C Briese… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2012 - Elsevier
To date, aerial archaeologists generally apply simple rectification procedures or more
expensive and time-consuming orthorectification algorithms to correct their aerial …

Coastline zones identification and 3D coastal mapping using UAV spatial data

A Papakonstantinou, K Topouzelis… - … International Journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Spatial data acquisition is a critical process for the identification of the coastline and coastal
zones for scientists involved in the study of coastal morphology. The availability of very high …

Small-scale surface reconstruction and volume calculation of soil erosion in complex Moroccan gully morphology using structure from motion

A Kaiser, F Neugirg, G Rock, C Müller, F Haas, J Ries… - Remote Sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
This study presents a computer vision application of the structure from motion (SfM)
technique in three dimensional high resolution gully monitoring in southern Morocco. Due to …

[HTML][HTML] A brave new world for archaeological survey: Automated machine learning-based potsherd detection using high-resolution drone imagery

HA Orengo, A Garcia-Molsosa - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Archaeological pedestrian survey is one of the most popular techniques available for
primary detection of archaeological sites and description of past landscape use. As such it is …

Towards semantic photogrammetry: generating semantically rich point clouds from architectural close-range photogrammetry

A Murtiyoso, E Pellis, P Grussenmeyer, T Landes… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Developments in the field of artificial intelligence have made great strides in the field of
automatic semantic segmentation, both in the 2D (image) and 3D spaces. Within the context …