Data Analysis

LiDAR Analysis LiDAR Analysis is the deck for seeing through the trees — laser scanning that strips away vegetation to reveal the bare earth, exposing mounds, structures, and old features hidden under forest. It has rewritten what we can find from above. Resistivity Results Resistivity Results covers the survey method that maps the ground by how it resists a current — picking out buried walls, voids, and disturbances by their electrical signature. Slow and patient, it draws clear pictures of what’s below. GPR Results Ground-penetrating radar paints a picture of what lies beneath without turning a single shovel of soil. This is where crews bring their GPR scans — the hyperbolas, the buried anomalies, the maddening false alarms — to make sense of the signal. Rocks & Minerals Rocks & Minerals is where the rockhounds get answers — identifying specimens, ores, and the maybe-gold that turns out to be pyrite. Knowing what you’ve actually got is the first step to knowing what it’s worth. Coins Coins is the deck for putting a name to your metal — dating, identifying, and grading the coins the hunt turns up, from worn coppers to silver and gold. Half of a coin’s value is knowing exactly what it is. Artifacts Artifacts is the deck for identifying the relics — the buttons, buckles, tokens, and odd bits of worked metal and bone the ground gives up. Context and detail turn a mystery lump into a dated, named piece of history. Sonar Data Sonar Data is for the hunt underwater — side-scan and sub-bottom sonar that maps lake beds, riverbeds, and seafloor in search of wrecks, anomalies, and sunken treasure. The water hides its secrets until the sonar reveals them. Remote Sensing Data Remote Sensing Data is the deck for the wider imagery — satellite, multispectral, and SAR data used to spot crop marks, soil signatures, and anomalies across the landscape. Reading the planet from orbit, in search of what’s buried below. Magnetometer Results Magnetometer Results is the deck for reading the magnetic field — the surveys that reveal buried iron, fire pits, and disturbed ground by the way they bend the earth’s magnetism. Subtle work, but it sees what other tools miss. Seismic Results Seismic Results is the deck for surveying by sound and vibration — using seismic and acoustic methods to image voids, tunnels, and structures hidden deep underground. The same tools that find oil can find a buried chamber. General Data Analysis General Data Analysis is the open lab — the catch-all for readings and results that don’t fit a single instrument, and for the broader questions of how to turn raw data into real targets. Method, software, and interpretation all welcome.