Cost Surface-Derived Least-Cost Paths: A Case Study from Iron Age Orkney

In recent years, GIS landscape models have begun to move towards more sophisticated techniques for representing the land surface in order to analyse site territories, pathways and travel costs. Many of the major commercial GIS packages now offer the ability to generate anisotropic cost surfaces. In...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brian Rahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2005-12-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
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Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue19/rahn_index.html