TY - JOUR
T1 - Aerial photogrammetry in the american west
T2 - Documenting the construction of cattle water tanks by texas cowboys
AU - Hurst, Stance
AU - Johnson, Eileen
AU - Cunningham, Doug
AU - Fernandez-Cespedes, Glenn
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the landowner for graciously allowing us access to the ranch. This research was funded by the Museum of Texas Tech University and two Texas Tech University scholastic catalyst grants (2015, 2017). This manuscript represents part of the ongoing Lubbock Lake Landmark regional research into cultural landscape use strategies on the Llano Estacado. The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Aerial photogrammetry is increasingly being used to discover, document, and interpret the cultural heritage of landscapes. Information on the constructed cultural heritage left behind by the first cattle ranchers in the American West is being lost as the land is transformed and modified, and stewardship of the land changes across generations. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been used in this research to record and interpret two surface water cattle tanks constructed by Texas cowboys in the mid-1880s. Similar size rocks have been used and placed in a similar pattern across the walls of both tanks. This similarity suggests both tanks were constructed at the same time. This research also demonstrates that UAV photogrammetry can be used to rapidly record and analyze the constructed cultural heritage of American West cowboys.
AB - Aerial photogrammetry is increasingly being used to discover, document, and interpret the cultural heritage of landscapes. Information on the constructed cultural heritage left behind by the first cattle ranchers in the American West is being lost as the land is transformed and modified, and stewardship of the land changes across generations. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been used in this research to record and interpret two surface water cattle tanks constructed by Texas cowboys in the mid-1880s. Similar size rocks have been used and placed in a similar pattern across the walls of both tanks. This similarity suggests both tanks were constructed at the same time. This research also demonstrates that UAV photogrammetry can be used to rapidly record and analyze the constructed cultural heritage of American West cowboys.
KW - American west
KW - Cattle water tanks
KW - Cowboys
KW - Historical ranches
KW - Photogrammetry
KW - Southern high plains
KW - Unmanned aerial vehicle
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116068251&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/HERITAGE4030107
DO - 10.3390/HERITAGE4030107
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85116068251
SN - 2571-9408
VL - 4
SP - 1899
EP - 1911
JO - Heritage
JF - Heritage
IS - 3
ER -