Adam Stanford has pioneered the use of UAS for survey to both prospect for and record archaeological evidence.
Providing solutions with various image capture platforms and multiple sensors since 2006 with his company, Aerial-Cam Ltd
which became part of Sumo group in late 2019. Now in 2024 via his new company AS Geospatial Surveys Ltd,
Adam collaborates with other specialists to provide bespoke solutions using the best and most appropriate equipment and methods.
Adam began developing a method Multispectral surveying for the Stones of Stonehenge Project which he has been involved with since 2010.
There is a need to be able to identify features in open landscapes that are not visible as microtopography and rarely as cropmarks.
Multispectral survey has the potential in the right conditions to show the invisible. This has been proven at a variety of sites, such as possible henge complex in Wales, where RGB, MS and Thermal results have been tested and compared with Geophysics and excavation.
The study of Stonehenge itself has also shown that MS can be a very useful tool in identifying known and new features, in collaboration
with English Heritage this will be demonstrated in a forthcoming article in Antiquity.

An archaeologist, specialising in Geospatial Surveying via Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS or Drones).

 A Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists, a Life Member of the Council for British Archaeology
and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.