Creating a Chronological Model for Historical Roads and Paths Extracted from Airborne Laser Scanning Data

Ochre a powerful tool for culture Historical Research a chronological model for historical roads and paths

“…One of the new features to be implemented is the Harris Matrix. With this matrix it is possible to relative date roads and paths based on intersection [3]. Nevertheless, we can already conclude that with OCHRE research possibilities are enlarged.…”

“…The third step deals with the predictive modeling of unknown networks. The final step combines a 3-D environment with a time element, resulting in a temporalspatial model of the road and path networks found [3]. This methodology is built on the ALS data from the Leitha hills in Austria.…”

“…Exception being the paved roads built by the Romans Nevertheless, recent technical developments have created more possibilities to date roads and paths both relatively and absolutely. One possibility comes from ALS, a technique able to capture surface relief in very high resolution and visualize details which can´t be seen by the naked eye in the field [3]. This technique supplies the elaborated data on which the first author builds a methodology for the reconstruction of historical road and path networks in his current doctoral research and is will shortly described in the following paragraph.…”

Geo-archaeology of the Grozzana area (N–E Italy)

“…In past decades, cross-cutting relationships have been considered as reliable chronological markers in landscape studies in floodplain environments (e.g. De Guio et al, 1999, 2009 and are being taking on increasing importance with the expanding application of ALS (Draganits et al, 2015;Vletter & Schloen, 2016).…”