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General Site Layout

The layout of each site varies and although sites were to be photographed annually since 1980, there are gaps in the sequence.

Each site has from 1 to 4 lines running parallel and approximately 1m apart. Steel pegs driven into the substrate permanently mark the site, and each year the pegs are found and tape measures run between them to reconstruct the lines.

Photographs are taken at 1m intervals along the tape measure, using two Nikonos V cameras with 28mm U/W lenses. The cameras are mounted 300mm apart on a steel bar, which in turn is attached to a distance rod with a target cross.

The rectangles in the figure opposite represent individual images, the green dots are the steels pegs and the green lines represent the tape measures.

Some sites only have 1 line and instead of the photographs being taken along the tape measure, they are taken side-on from left to right.

 


 

 

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