Tag: satellite imagery

Prominent representation of GIAP (ICAC) in the EAA2023!

Yesterday started the 29th EAA Annual Meeting, which is taking place in Belfast (Ireland) from the 30th of August to the 2nd of September. This year’s themes incorporate the diversity and multidimensionality of archaeological practice, including archaeological interpretation, heritage management and politics of the past and present. GIAP (ICAC) has 12 contributions to the conference,…
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Archaeological survey on the alluvial plains of Jammu in north-western India 

This month, Navjot Kour is leading a ground-truthing survey in the outer alluvial plains of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Here, her team is documenting and validating new potential archaeological sites and geomorphological traits that Navjot previously mapped using a combination of historical sources and multi-temporal satellite imagery.  In particular, she successfully integrated a…
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Satellite and drone images: Introduction to remote sensing in archaeology

Today, Francesc C. Conesa (Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral researcher) is participating in an invited lecture at the Master in Archaeology at the University of Barcelona (UB). He will teach theoretical and practical case studies in landscape archaeology, ranging from applying historical declassified satellite photographs to using multi-sensor drones in machine-learning workflows. The students will conduct…
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The application of satellite imagery in the landscape archaeology in the Near East 

MSCA postdoctoral fellow Nazarij Buławka was invited yesterday to present on the “Seminar II: Near East Archaeology” of the “Master’s on Bioarchaeology and/or Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology” at the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (picture by Miron Bogacki for the University of Warsaw): The application of satellite imagery in the…
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The computational team welcomes a new researcher for 6 months!

We welcome PhD candidate Alessia Brucato, from the University Bari Aldo Moro – Department of Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica and the Instituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR), who will be staying with us for 6 months to train on the application of the computational methods developed in GIAP…
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