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Leveraging cutting-edge tools and technologies, Virtus Heritage offers various specialist geospatial services, including mapping, data collection, drone photography, photogrammetry, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR).
Our team specialises in combining these disciplines to deliver industry-leading products to help further our knowledge and understanding of archaeological sites.
Virtus Heritage employs drone photography to capture current, high-resolution images and videos for recording archaeological sites, heritage features, excavation areas, and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) grids. With this technology, we geographically reference locations and features under scrutiny, providing clients with comprehensive overviews of archaeological sites. This includes identifying local landforms (geomorphology) and creating digital elevation models (DEMs).
Our consultants are proficient in photogrammetry, a technique that extracts 3D information from photographs. Using drone photography, our consultants capture high-quality images and videos of archaeological and heritage sites. This expertise allows us to construct digital models of artefacts and archaeological features, aiding assessment and reporting for a range of project requirements.
Our team specialises in Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and mapping, regularly utilising drone photography for georeferencing in GIS, cultural mapping, and geomorphological assessments.
Geomorphology involves the study of landforms and their formation. Virtus Heritage offers geomorphological assessments to enhance archaeological interpretation and maintains a technical partnership with Dr Peter Mitchell OAM, one of Australia’s leading geomorphologists.
We utilise Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR), a non-invasive geophysical technique that sends radar pulses from the surface into the ground to detect buried features and objects. This technology enables us to construct an underground picture of the environment.
Virtus Heritage is well-equipped to conduct GPR surveys, specialising in graves, cemeteries, and archaeological site mapping. Our technical partnership with Professor Lawrence Conyers, the world’s foremost expert in GPR for archaeology, positions us as Australia’s premier provider of GPR services in archaeology.
Our GPR projects are pioneering new approaches in archaeological practice and have gained recognition through media articles and prominent archaeological publications and journals.
If you’d like to work with us or need guidance on how our archaeology and cultural heritage services can support a project you have in mind, let’s start a conversation.
Virtus Heritage is committed to the spirit of reconciliation and acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and the Traditional Custodians of the states and territories of Australia. We recognise the Traditional Owners of the lands we work within. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging in maintaining the culture, country and their spiritual and historical connections to the lands and waters.
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