Archaeological LiDAR Study
Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa In late 2007, Continental Mapping worked on a LiDAR project with the National Park Service’s Midwest Archaeological Center (MWAC), based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The focus area was the Sny Magill Effigy Mounds Group near the southern edge of the Effigy Mounds National Monument, near Marquette, Iowa.MWAC staff is using the data to analyze this well-known mound group and hope to take what they know and apply it to similar LiDAR projects in other areas to identify unknown Native American earthen mound structures. Continental Mapping was able to pass a cost savings onto MWAC by coordinating survey and aerial collection with a mapping project in nearby Marquette, Iowa.
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