AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING AND LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY

Sa？etak Airborne lidar (Light Detection And Ranging), ALS or ALSM (Airborne Laser Scanning, Airborne Laser Swath Mapping) is an active remote sensing tech- nique, which records the surface of the earth using laser scanning. ALS allows very precise three-dimensional mapping of the surface of the earth, producing high-resolution topographic data, even where surface is obscured by forest and vegetation. The level of detail on digital surface and terrain models produced from high resolution ALS topographic data helps us enormously in identification of past events, which re- worked and modified the surface of the earth. However, interpretation of ALS data poses much more than technical challenges. ALS does not provide only a layer of data, but offers a different view of land- scape. What kind of landscapes do we see with ALS