Esri's ArcGIS Online has the capacity to share 3D web scenes of landscapes generated from drone data. Here's an example at Girdi Abdulaziz, an enormous mound just outside of Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Just appeared: Near Eastern Landscapes and Declassified U2 Aerial Imagery by Emily Hammer and Jason Ur. Read it online here (Open Access).
Abstract:
Recently declassified photographs taken by U2 spy planes in the 1950s and 1960s provide an important new source of historical aerial imagery useful for Eurasian archaeology. Like other sources of historical imagery, U2 photos provide a window into...
The drone data collection program of the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) is producing interactive 3D models of sites and landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Click here for our models on Sketchfab.
Prof. Ur will be speaking at the upcoming Dumbarton Oaks symposium on the Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities, 5-6 May 2017. See here for the full schedule.
Follow our findings on Facebook here. This season the team is experimenting with UAVs in archaeological survey. See Facebook for more photos of the landscape of Kurdistan from above.