This January’s expedition to Koroneia hill has been quite succesful. Working with the high-precision DGPS set turned out to be fairly easy. It also was very fast to work with. In our 11 days of fieldwork we’ve taken almost 9000 point measurements. Creating a digital elevation model (DEM) of a hill like this in less than 2 weeks is, as far as I know, revolutionary. Because we were specifically looking for anomalies in the hill’s topography, and because the hill has both fairly even areas and highly irregular ones, we’ve decided to select the points to measure in the field, based on what we saw, rather than trying to follow any kind of regular grid. This to avoid our grid smoothing out small ridges that may be quite important to our research. Below you can see an overview of the measurements we took, overlaid on the aerial photographs we have and a preliminary 3D result.
