Book chapter
Construction of digital elevation models for archaeological applications
Practical applications of GIS for archaeologists : a predictive modeling toolkit, pp.113-127
Taylor & Francis
2000
Abstract
The creation of digital elevation models (DEM) in archaeological applications of geographic information systems (GIS) has, with rare exceptions (e.g., Kvamme 1990; Warren 1990; Wiemer 1995 ; Madry and Rakos 1996) , been largely ignored in print. As Kvamme (1990: 123 ) has noted, archaeologists are usually concerned with the quality of archaeological data, not the quality of data obtained by computer means. Yet given the same data points, substantively different surfaces can be generated from alternative computer algorithms designed to accomplish the same task. These differences can have significant and unexpected impacts on archaeological investigations .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Construction of digital elevation models for archaeological applications
- Creators
- Jon B. HagemanDavid A. Bennett - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Practical applications of GIS for archaeologists : a predictive modeling toolkit, pp.113-127
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis; London
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2000
- Academic Unit
- Geographical and Sustainability Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983557791302771
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