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ADVANCES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE
卷 4, 期 3, 页码 232-248出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.7183/2326-3768.4.3.232
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- Selz Foundation
- Fundacion Pedro y Helena Hernandez
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1339015] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
In this article we evaluate similar to 48km(2 )of airborne lidar data collected at a target density of 15 laser shots/m in central Yucatan, Mexico. This area covers parts of the sites of Chichen Itza and Yaxuna, a kilometer-wide transect between these two sites, and a transect along the first few kilometers of Sacbe 1 from Yaxuna to Coba. The results of our ground validation and mapping demonstrate that not all sizable archaeological features can be detected in the lidar images due to: (1) the slightly rolling topography interspersed with 1-6 m-high bedrock hummocks, which morphologically mimic house mounds, further complicated by the presence of low foundations; (2) the complex forest structure in central Yucatan, which has particularly dense near-ground understory resulting in a high number of mixed-signal ground and low vegetation returns which reduces the fidelity and accuracy of the bare-earth digital elevation models; and (3) the predominance of low archaeological features difficult to discern from the textural noise of the near-ground vegetation. In this article we explore different visualization techniques to increase the identification of cultural features, but we conclude that, in this portion of the Maya region, lidar should be used as a complement to traditional on-the-ground survey techniques.
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