My hopes lie with the open sourcing of in-vehicle processing hardware and software that is being used within self driving cars. As of today my understanding is much of that is part of the "secret sauce" of companies like Waymo and others.

If it were possible to apply kinematic geo-correction along with point filtering and feature detection during collection then a lot of the "heavy" data could be reduced down to what is just needed for human verification.

If you want to start your investigation with existing projects you could have a look at what the United Kingdom is doing with their government LiDAR data sets[0][1].

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/environment-agency-uncove...

[1] http://vterrain.org/Locations/uk/

Brilliant! Thank you. I wonder now if Canada has any projects remotely similar occuring

Maybe the technology will become accessable enough that everyone with a smart phone can start finding and destroying archaeological sites.

Well, username kind of checks out.

I like the tech because of its ability to prevent the destruction of archaeological sites while still allowing for discovery that would otherwise require an immense amount of digging and other labours.