A guide to orthophotographic surveying using photogrammetry as applied to archaeological heritage

If the uses of photogrammetry are many and various, the use of it in archaeology is now well standardised in the large majority of these uses. It is mainly a replacement of the traditional plan, section and elevation measurements of archaeological remains by the production of ortho-images, known as orthomosaics. This guide aims to provide students and professionals of our discipline with a complete protocol (from field acquisition to data storage), which has been tried and tested, with reproducible results, and which is entirely based on free scientific tools.

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 : Theory, preparation and acquisition

Chapter 2 : Process for producing plan orthophotographs

Chapter 3 : Process for producing elevation orthophotographs : the example of the Early Christian church of Mirine

Chapter 4 : Backup and dissemination of data

Bibliography

Glossary

Summary of command chains