Workshop LiDAR

Date: 16 & 17 June 2022

Location: Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, room F0.06

Credits: 1 ECT

Innovations in archaeological remote sensing are moving at a rapid pace, driven by the combination of powerful machine learning techniques, common use of UAVs (drones) with multiple sensors, and increasing availability of Open Source archaeological and environmental datasets. Knowing how to effectively manipulate remote sensing data and interpret them is, however, still challenging.

In this workshop you will learn about the state of the art in archaeological remote sensing, and get hands-on experience in working with the essential techniques needed for effective application. The approaches will be demonstrated by case studies from the Netherlands, Germany, and Cambodia.

Learning goals:

After this event, students will 

• have acquired up-to-date knowledge about the state of the art in archaeological prospection using LiDAR and Remote Sensing

• have gotten hands-on experience in processing and visualisation LiDAR data, and mapping archaeological features

N.B. Students are assumed to have basic skills in working with QGIS. If this is not the case, they should follow the Archon QGIS course in advance of this event.

Programme:

Thursday 16 June 2022

09:30 Welcome and introduction 

09:45 Lecture: the role of LiDAR and Remote Sensing in 21st century archaeology (Karsten Lambers / Tuna Kalayci)

10:15 Coffee break

10:30 Workshop 1: Basics of Lidar processing and visualisation (Karsten Lambers / Tuna Kalayci)

12:30 lunch break (at own expense)

13:00 Workshop 2: Basics of Lidar processing and visualisation  (Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart)

15:00 Tea break

15:15 Workshop 3: Working with drone imagery (Jitte Waagen)

17:15 optional drinks (at own expense)

Friday 17 June 2022

09:30 Welcome and introduction

09:45 Case studies: Discovering hidden landscapes with LiDAR and RS data – the German Rhineland case (Matthias Lang); Detecting the urban fabric of Angkor in Cambodia (Sarah Klassen); burial mounds on the Veluwe (Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart)

10:45 Coffee break

11:00 Tutorial: a workflow for detecting and mapping archaeological features from LiDAR data (Matthias Lang / Sarah Klassen / Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart)

12:30 lunch break (at own expense)

13:00 Tutorial continued

14:30 Tea break

14:45 Tutorial continued

16:15 Presentations and discussion

17:00 optional drinks (at own expense)

Credits: ARCHON members can receive 1 ECT for attending the course and handing in a reflection report afterwards (a reading list and guidelines will be provided).

Registration: