In 2013, an airborne LiDAR mission conducted over the Verdun battlefield has brought to light landforms from the First World War. Concealed by a large forest cover of 10,000 ha, these landforms, called polemoforms, have a significant archaeological value because they constitute artefacts from the past. They should be inventoried to improve their conservation for the sustainable management of the forest. However, at the scale of the entire site, this work is only possible if an automatised mapping method is developed. To achieve this, the methodology used is threefold: (i) It consists in extracting landforms from the digital terrain model by means of a semi-automatic algorithm; (ii) Landforms geometry is studied using a combined approach of ...