Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors enable precision sensing of an object in 3D.
LiDAR technology is widely used in metrology, environment monitoring, archaeology, and …

Archaeological and cultural heritage (ACH), one of the core carriers of cultural diversity on
our planet, has a direct bearing on the sustainable development of mankind. Documenting …

Archaeological remains of agrarian-based, low-density urbananism,–have been reported to
exist beneath the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and Central America …

Archaeologists have traditionally thought that the development of Maya civilization was
gradual, assuming that small villages began to emerge during the Middle Preclassic period …

A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues
ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns. Human beings …

Previous archaeological mapping work on the successive medieval capitals of the Khmer
Empire located at Angkor, in northwest Cambodia (∼ 9th to 15th centuries in the Common …

Point cloud registration (PCR) is an important task in photogrammetry and remote sensing,
whose goal is to seek a seven-parameter similarity transformation to register a pair of point …

Urban adaptation to climate change is a global challenge requiring a broad response that
can be informed by how urban societies in the past responded to environmental shocks. Yet …

Many humans live in large, complex political centers, composed of multi-scalar communities
including neighborhoods and districts. Both today and in the past, neighborhoods form a …

The past decade has seen an explosive increase in the number of peer reviewed papers
reporting new scientific findings in geomorphology (including fans, channels, floodplains …