Cambodian Archaeological Lidar Initiative

[L. Coyote]

Cambodian Archaeological Lidar Initiative
A Cross-Section of Results from the 2015 Lidar Campaign
by Damian Evans · May 31, 2016

A lot of the preliminary results and analyses of the 2015 archaeological lidar campaign will be coming online in the coming months. An initial peer-reviewed publication will appear in the coming weeks in the Journal of Archaeological Science, which outlines the most significant outcomes, and there will be a talk at the Royal Geographical Society in London on the 13th of June 2016 that will cover many of the same issues.

Tickets to the London event can be purchased here, and all proceeds will go to funding the work of Global Heritage Fund (GHF) at the Cambodian temple complex of Banteay Chhmar, which we also covered with lidar and where GHF supports a number of programs including an important Community Based Tourism initiative.

In the meantime here are some examples of the terrain models, stripped of vegetation, derived from the new dataset (click for larger detail):



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[Judi Lynn]

1. The images are astonishing. Don't know how they can keep from dying of curiosity!

This is such a vast, complex site to investigate. It could take so horrendously long. Hope they can keep those who planned alterations in the area to back off. Things like this are far more valuable than anything they can build.

[L. Coyote]

2. Vast civilizations have come and gone without a peep in history.

So cool to be able to so advantageously employ new technology to resurrect what was hidden.