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Playing around with #aerialod by @ephtracy, new software that makes it fairly straightforward to create renderings of #lidar terrain data, cleared of forest. It's amazing....
@ephtracy The paper that we released last week describes a city up on a forested plateau near Angkor. Here you can see the sandstone valley up top that they tried to carve into a reservoir. There's features all around & a canal leading over the cliff sending water down to quarries below...
@ephtracy ... with a temple (that we knew of) perched on the promontory overlooking the plains below where Angkor is.
@ephtracy Nearby is the hill of Phnom Dei, where in the 10th century they shaved off the peak and built a temple. There's modern quarrying at the bottom; you can see the highway to Phnom Kulen, and the Siem Reap River.
@ephtracy Pretty amazing to see all the major temples of Angkor all lined up, minus the jungle. In the background there you can see the massive earthworks and hydraulic system of the royal palace, which was made of wood and has otherwise mostly disappeared.
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