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Airborne lidar and historic environment records

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Keith Challis,
Ziga Kokalj,
Mark Kincey,
Derek Moscrop and
Andy J. Howard
Keith Challis*
Affiliation:
IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, Birmingham Archaeology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK (Email: K.Challis@bham.ac.uk)
Ziga Kokalj
Affiliation:
Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, SI–1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mark Kincey
Affiliation:
IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, Birmingham Archaeology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK (Email: K.Challis@bham.ac.uk)
Derek Moscrop
Affiliation:
IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre, Birmingham Archaeology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK (Email: K.Challis@bham.ac.uk)
Andy J. Howard
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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Abstract

The authors assess the potential contribution of lidar surveys to national inventories of archaeological resources (‘Historic Environment Records’), and compare the relative costs and sensitivity of lidar and aerial photography.

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Englandaerial surveylidaraerial photography

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Antiquity , Volume 82 , Issue 318 , December 2008, pp. 1055 - 1064
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2008

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