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April/May 2016
AIR MAPPING
U
nmanned aircraft are changing the
way we do things in countless indus-
trial and academic sectors. In archae-
ology, where the name of the game is finding
the hard-to-find, drone-based imaging has be-
come a go-to technology, able to meet a range
of user needs with limited investment.
"The unmanned drone system is now an im-
portant tool for us," said Alison Dickens, manag-
er of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CUA)
by Peter Gutierrez
In the feld of archaeology, researchers and the service providers that support them
are reaping the benefts of unmanned aircraft technologies that are easy to use,
fexible and low-cost.
ARCHAEOLOGY
DRONES TRANSFORM