Application of sky-view factor for the visualisation of historic landscape features in lidar-derived relief models
- 1 February 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Antiquity
- Vol. 85 (327), 263-273
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00067594
Abstract
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.Keywords
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