With laser scanning, the time differences between laser pulses sent from the aircraft
that perform the flight and reflected by the surface of the terrain are recorded, and
the GPS receiver continues to record its position.
Initially used for urban planning projects or planetary exploration, LiDAR has
also proven its useful in archeology (Mehrer and Wescott 2006). If aerial photography was until now the only modern tool that could help traditional archeology,
LiDAR technology facilitates the archaeological research by mapping of hundreds
of square kilometers at once. In this way, an overview of ancient civilizations
organization is provided, but more importantly, information regarding the causes of
their collapse is provided which should be taken into account when it is trying to
find the source of contemporary world.
In the field of archeology, the main theoretical developments that have arisen
from the development of GIS applications, refer to scale changing where archaeological sites are viewed and understood (Dorogostaisky 2013). The research of an
archaeological site is no longer limited to the boundaries of areas of several
hundreds of square meters or, eventually, to several hectares where excavations
were made. The outlook has been much larger and the sites are increasingly
integrated at micro regional level, linked with other contemporary sites, especially
with the environment. This development has contributed to the evolution of archaeological topography.
Last but not least, with GIS, archaeologists have become more conscious of the
interdisciplinary nature of their profession and the environmental importance in the
assessment of historical and archaeological phenomena (Conolly and Lake 2006).
Archeology defines its object of study and methods by reference to two fundamentals variables: time and space. The chorology, as a classical instrument of
investigation, is recently completed by anthropological dimension exploration of
space through archaeological landscape, also as a consequence of the development
of GIS applications.
The main advantage of GIS lies in the ease of managing and producing spatial
data but also in the flexibility of handling enormous samples of archaeological data.
This paper presents a geomorphological, topographical and cartographic analysis of the Cornești site in order to determine the limits, the morphology and the
construction technique of such fortifications. This research is based on a digital
terrain model and digital surface model analysis, archaeological topography, as a
way to provide a comprehensive image through this interdisciplinary study of
archaeological landscape.
37.1.1 Study Area
The geographical boundaries which provide support for this approach is an area of
study, these are relatively arbitrarily drawn, unrelated to natural morphological
units or with modern cadastral boundaries. In essence, when we decided to trace
this area, we tried to include historical cadastral boundary of the Cornes ¸ti village. In
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that perform the flight and reflected by the surface of the terrain are recorded, and
the GPS receiver continues to record its position.
Initially used for urban planning projects or planetary exploration, LiDAR has
also proven its useful in archeology (Mehrer and Wescott 2006). If aerial photography was until now the only modern tool that could help traditional archeology,
LiDAR technology facilitates the archaeological research by mapping of hundreds
of square kilometers at once. In this way, an overview of ancient civilizations
organization is provided, but more importantly, information regarding the causes of
their collapse is provided which should be taken into account when it is trying to
find the source of contemporary world.
In the field of archeology, the main theoretical developments that have arisen
from the development of GIS applications, refer to scale changing where archaeological sites are viewed and understood (Dorogostaisky 2013). The research of an
archaeological site is no longer limited to the boundaries of areas of several
hundreds of square meters or, eventually, to several hectares where excavations
were made. The outlook has been much larger and the sites are increasingly
integrated at micro regional level, linked with other contemporary sites, especially
with the environment. This development has contributed to the evolution of archaeological topography.
Last but not least, with GIS, archaeologists have become more conscious of the
interdisciplinary nature of their profession and the environmental importance in the
assessment of historical and archaeological phenomena (Conolly and Lake 2006).
Archeology defines its object of study and methods by reference to two fundamentals variables: time and space. The chorology, as a classical instrument of
investigation, is recently completed by anthropological dimension exploration of
space through archaeological landscape, also as a consequence of the development
of GIS applications.
The main advantage of GIS lies in the ease of managing and producing spatial
data but also in the flexibility of handling enormous samples of archaeological data.
This paper presents a geomorphological, topographical and cartographic analysis of the Cornești site in order to determine the limits, the morphology and the
construction technique of such fortifications. This research is based on a digital
terrain model and digital surface model analysis, archaeological topography, as a
way to provide a comprehensive image through this interdisciplinary study of
archaeological landscape.
37.1.1 Study Area
The geographical boundaries which provide support for this approach is an area of
study, these are relatively arbitrarily drawn, unrelated to natural morphological
units or with modern cadastral boundaries. In essence, when we decided to trace
this area, we tried to include historical cadastral boundary of the Cornes ¸ti village. In
618
I. Vizireanu and R. Mateescu