Throughout England, laser scanning technology is being used to find Roman civil engineering projects. Aircraft instrumented with laser scanners, specifically
LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging), will be recording all 50,000 square miles of England. Archaeologists are using these data to find missing Roman roads, including 10 miles of a Roman road between Ribchester and Lancaster, 10 other routes, and various river crossings. The information will also be used to improve flood risk models, identify illegal waste dumps, and perhaps a variety of currently unknown uses as the agency collecting the data makes it available to the public. The files include 11 terabytes of data and have been downloaded over 500,000 times. - Dr. Daniel Findley, PE - Civil Transportation Instructor
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