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Application of sky-view factor for the visualisation of historic landscape features in lidar-derived relief models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Žiga Kokalj ,
Klemen Zakšek  and
Krištof Oštir
Žiga Kokalj*
Affiliation:
Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Space-Si – Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies, Aškerčeva 12, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Klemen Zakšek
Affiliation:
Space-Si – Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies, Aškerčeva 12, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia University of Hamburg, Institute of Geophysics, Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
Krištof Oštir
Affiliation:
Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Space-Si – Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies, Aškerčeva 12, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Aerial mapping and remote sensing takes another step forward with this method of modelling lidar data. The usual form of presentation, hill shade, uses a point source to show up surface features. Sky-view factor simulates diffuse light by computing how much of the sky is visible from each point. The result is a greatly improved visibility — as shown here by its use on a test site of known topography in Slovenia.

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sky-view factorrelief visualisationhistoric landscapeairborne laser scanninglidar

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Antiquity , Volume 85 , Issue 327 , March 2011 , pp. 263 - 273
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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