Application of sky-view factor for the visualisation of historic landscape features in lidar-derived relief models

Aerial mapping and remote sensing takes another step forward with this method of modelling lidar data. The usual form of presentation, hill shade, uses a point source to show up surface features. Sky-view factor simulates diffuse light by computing how much of the sky is visible from each point. The...

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Published inAntiquity Vol. 85; no. 327; pp. 263 - 273
Main Authors Kokalj, Ziga, Zaksek, Klemen, Ostir, Kristof
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2011
Subjects
Aerial archaeology
airborne laser scanning
Archaeology
Cartography
historic landscape
Historic sites
Historical archaeology
Landscape
lidar
Lidar data
Light
Mapping
Methods
Optical radar
Principal components analysis
Protection and preservation
relief visualisation
Remote sensing
Research article
sky-view factor
Slovenia
Topography
Slovenia
Germany
airborne laser scanning
sky-view factor
historic landscape
lidar
relief visualisation
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Summary:Aerial mapping and remote sensing takes another step forward with this method of modelling lidar data. The usual form of presentation, hill shade, uses a point source to show up surface features. Sky-view factor simulates diffuse light by computing how much of the sky is visible from each point. The result is a greatly improved visibility — as shown here by its use on a test site of known topography in Slovenia.
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ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.1017/S0003598X00067594