February 3, 2021
Merge of scans complete!

One of the major tasks of the 2019 season was to build a lidar-based model of the NIP. Technological issues at the time and two delays of a sabbatical held off the completion of the model. But the scans are now merged!
The model requires some scrubbing. Then I will build a mesh from it. But, at long last, I am seeing results from the study season!
February 10, 2021
More refined model…
by Dr. Mark Schuler • Research Phase, Sabbatical
Over the last several weeks, I have been working to clean up the first complete lidar model of the site. The result is the following:
I solved a number of minor alignment problems and have rather comprehensive coverage. The model involves 146 scans with 384 links among the scans. There are close to 630 million points in the cloud.
The bundle is quite accurate, with an error of only 0.014 m.