UAV use in archaeology

[Andrew]

Hi All,

I have a quick question for the group.

We have seen a massive boom in the use of UAVs in archaeology and having used Multirotors for both recreation and research use for a few years now, I started to wonder about what types of systems people are using right now. I done a bit of digging around and found a lot of papers on using them, but very little details on what people are using. I am really interested in the kit people have or are using right now. This is purely a research interest both personal and for a research project I work on: heritagetogether.org We are currently flying a custom built DJI S800 with a Nex5 camera, but also have a DJI Phantom 2 Vision +

So I built a quick Google Docs questionnaire: http://goo.gl/forms/o4uFH3mieH

If you use a UAV and could take the time to fill it out, that would be fantastic.

All the best,

Andrew

P.S. Couldn't let up a quick project plug, also take a quick look at our project heritagetogether.org crowdsourcing photogrammetry. But more intresting for the group, all of our data is also free to download on our research portal heritagetogether.org/research

[Paul Cripps]

Afternoon,

You might want to check this out of you haven’t seen it already: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/2014/11/archaeological-drones/

New Guide to Good Practice on a) capture and b) archiving of UAS data.

 

I’ve mostly been working with fixed wing systems using RGB and nIR cameras to do wide area landscape survey (>20 sq km in some cases). Then using SfM to generate very detailed DSMs (c.10-15cm xy resolution) to support the imagery. From the DSMs created range of GIS derived products (hillshades, vRTI, PCA views, slope, aspect, profiles, etc) to inform fairly standard NMP style interpretations (with modern & historic maps, HER data, etc of course). Great stuff to work with.

 

Good deal of overlap in techniques for processing/analysis/visualisation between data from UAS, LiDAR/ALS, TLS and other (terrestrial) forms of photogrammetry/SfM. I’ve used similar approaches on rock art, buildings, monuments and landscapes, other have done on objects/artefacts. Both scanning and image based capture/processing/analysis/visualisation techniques align quite nicely, similar toolsets/workflows.

 

But then, I’m a geospatial data bod rather than an aviator; Adam Standford at Aerialcam is doing great work flying UAS, definitely worth talking to him re kit.

 

Hth,

P.

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