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Archeology

Digital defoliation reveals terrain — and the features hidden beneath vegetation.

Archeology point-cloud scan
The problem

What’s at stake.

Sites of interest are often obscured by dense vegetation that conventional aerial imaging and single-look lidar cannot see through.

What’s required

What the data has to do.

High-resolution bare-earth terrain models that strip away vegetation to expose subtle surface features.

How 3DEO helps

From scoping to answers.

Multi-angle capture

Sees beneath canopy by combining several look angles in one pass.

Digital defoliation

Acadia removes vegetation returns to produce clean bare-earth DTMs.

Subtle detail

Centimeter-scale precision surfaces faint earthworks and structures.

Recommended system

Zion is built for this.

A compact, accessible system for high-resolution low- and mid-altitude collection.

Archeology collection
BARE-EARTH DTM
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See what 3DEO can do for archeology.

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