Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Archaeological and cultural heritage (ACH), one of the core carriers of cultural diversity on
our planet, has a direct bearing on the sustainable development of mankind. Documenting …

Archaeological remains of agrarian-based, low-density urbananism,–have been reported to
exist beneath the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and Central America …

Cities need to build on their resilience to cope with a broad range of natural and manmade
hazards that threaten their competitiveness, livability, and functionality. Recognizing this …

Archaeologists have traditionally thought that the development of Maya civilization was
gradual, assuming that small villages began to emerge during the Middle Preclassic period …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

Early Khmer societies developed extensive settlement complexes that were largely made of
non-durable materials. These fragile urban areas perished many centuries ago, and thus a …

Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic
and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and …

In this paper we provide a description of airborne mapping LiDAR, also known as airborne
laser scanning (ALS), technology and its workflow from mission planning to final data …

Aerial light detection and ranging (lidar) has emerged as a powerful technology for mapping
urban archaeological landscapes, especially where dense vegetation obscures site …