I'm impressed by this piece of work by former Birmingham Landscape Archaeology and GIS master's student Lawrence Shaw demonstrating the archaeological use of AgiSoft's PhotoScan photographic modelling software. This nice demonstration of the software is of rock art found at Al Jassasiyah, Qatar and is compiled from eight different photographs taken from a pole. OK, not landscape, but I'm very impressed by the fidelity of the model. PhotoScan can output models derived from appropriate photographs in a variety of 3D object formats as well as those suitable for digital elevation models. I for one will be downloading the demo version to take it for a run, maybe at a bit of appropriate landscape, as well as the more usual objects and structures.
