The use of terrestrial laser scanning for archaeological applications has escalated in recent years and this relatively new technology is altering how archaeologists are approaching the past’s material record.

At the most fundamental level TLS provides extraordinarily precise three-dimensional (3D) digital surface models of moveable artifacts, buildings, site terrains, and even entire landscapes.

With the advent of consumer virtual reality devices in the near future, these digital worlds will be fully explorable. A parallel digital world that exists alongside our own.