ARS Landscape Prospection Service (LPS): depicting multi-proxy data for enhanced landscape
0Joel Goodchild, Archaeological Research Services
Archaeological Research Services Landscape Prospection Service (LPS) integrate a range of cutting edge and emerging prospection techniques to capture a series of independent datasets that furnish the investigator with a unique suite of tools and data for historic landscape characterisation. Not only does this increase the likelihood of identifying a wider range of buried and upstanding archaeological features within a given site or landscape, but it can also provide information on the use of space between and among features. Overall, this allows a more nuanced and targeted approach, allowing for better targeting and value creation at subsequent mitigation stages by more directly addressing research priorities. A major challenge of creating such large and diverse datasets is their effective integration, interpretation and representation. While raster visualisations of remote sensing data provide a convenient means of presentation using a single data source, methodologies that incorporate multiple prospection techniques produce a large number of visualisations representing different characteristics of a given site. Here we discuss how ARS Ltd are addressing this challenge and exploring how best to convey the complexity inherent within our sites and landscapes.