
Monday 29th of July Ekta Gupta was in Baroda (India) presenting her research at the Lecture Series 1 of the Department of Geography of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
Her talk ‘Connecting the dots: remote sensing and GIS at the Geography-Archaeology interface” focused on:
– Examine the spatial context of historical events through the convergence of geography and archaeology.
– Highlight the collaboration opportunities between these fields in India.
– Explore potential of remote sensing to uncover hidden patterns in human-environment interactions.
– To highlight the connection between geography and archaeology using remote sensing through examples and case studies.
– Demonstrate how this approach aids cultural heritage preservation and management.


Ekta Gupta is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow with the project “Airborne and Spaceborne Remote Sensing in Landscape Archaeology” (JDC2022-050110-I)