Cultural Heritage: „We’re making time visible“

"Researchers used to trek through the jungle or other inhospitable regions for months to find ruins. Now, we fly an aircraft equipped with LiDAR – or indeed our very own drone – for a day and find the heritage sites later in the lab,” says Nicola Lercari, expert for Digital Cultural Heritage studies at LMU Munich.

State-of-the-art remote sensing methods are at the heart of Lercari’s work. He and his team use it to gain an overview, as they are currently doing in Heloros in Sicily. Our multimedia story shows how the LMU researcher used a high-tech drone there to survey an area of three square kilometers, almost 420 soccer pitches in size.

For the multimedia story, read: Cultural heritage