MICRO UAVPHOTOGRAMMETRY:A NEW PROCEDURE FOR THE

SURVEY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES

Martina Ballarin1, Francesco Guerra2

1 LaboratoriodiFotogrammetria,SistemadeiLaboratori,UniversitàIUAVdiVenezia,SantaCroce191,30135

Venezia, martinab@iuav.it

2 LaboratoriodiFotogrammetria,SistemadeiLaboratori,UniversitàIUAVdiVenezia,SantaCroce191,30135

Venezia, guerra2@iuav.it

ABSTRACT

The project described here intends to deal with and analyse the development and potentialities of micro

UAVs (micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). In particular, it will focus on the interaction between these

vehicles and new multi-image software products, considering the consequences that this system provoked on

themethodologyoftraditionalphotogrammetryappliedinthearchaeologicalfield.

The purpose of this work is the individuation of the potentialities in the working approach on one side of the

UAVsas a mean to acquire metrical information and on the other side of multi-image software products for

theprocessingoftheacquired data.Inotherterms,different techniques arecompared andintegrated, inorder

tounderstandthepossibilitiesofthisnewmethodology.

Finally, the system proposed here has great advantages in terms of versatility, manoeuvrability and costs.

Moreover, it is easy to use and produces good results that are interesting as both research and documentation

toolsduetotheirrichnessofinformation.

In the archaeological field, this system shows its strength as a method to acquire not just metrical data, but

also high-resolution images, combining the accuracy on the data acquired, to the potentials of aerial images,

usefulforinterpretationanddocumentationpurposes.

Keywords: UAV,survey,laserscanner,theatre,aerialphotogrammetry