PHOTOGRAMMETRICAL APPLICATIONS TO AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE INSTITUTE FOR PREHISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA

摘要

The presented paper tries to introduce non-terrestrical applications of photogrammertry within archaeology. Especially aerial archaeology, which is a widely used prospection technique, needs photogrammetry to map the buried remains of archaeologigal sites. At the Institute for Prehistory at the University of Vienna photogrammetry has been becoming an essential part not only of aerial archaeology. Using photogrammetrical hard- and software, vertical and oblique photographs are analized, digital terrain models are measured and digital orthophotos calculated. All these data are used to enhance the understanding of a site's contexts, reconstruct archaeological landscapes thus bringing the past back to (virtual) life.