Large-scale and high-resolution 3-D cave mapping by terrestrial laser scanning: a case study of the Domica Cave, Slovakia

gravity (Chamberlain et al., 2000; Beres et al., 2001). These methods are useful to detect underground hollow spaces but they provide limited information about spatial details with low levels of accuracy. Image-based photogrammetric surveying can also be used in cave studies but the difficulty of achieving homogeneous light conditions is a limiting factor (Grussenmeyer et al., 2012; Remondino et al., 2014). Recent developments in terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) technology (Mallet & Bretar, 2009; Vosselman & Maas, 2010; Höfle & Rutzinger, 2011; Bosse et al., 2012; Bremer & Sass, 2012; Buckley et al., 2013; McFarlane et al., 2015) provide new approaches to mapping the complex environment of caves. The archaeological survey in the Wemyss Caves in INTRODUCTION

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