Day: 14 September 2022

Sword or ploughshare? Distinguishing between the effects of war and traces of civilian use in the digital terrain model (DTM)

The analysis of historical aerial photographs from the Second World War is an indispensable aspect of the reconstruction of events that may have led to the contamination of explosive ordnance. However, the informative value of aerial photographs as "objective contemporary witnesses"[1] reaches its limits where the view of the ground was blocked at the time the photographs were taken. Vegetation cover, especially wooded areas, can [...]