Aerial Archaeology

Neue Angaben zur Forschung römischer Landstrassen in Pannonien

by András Bödőcs

Archaeologiai Értesítő. Volume 131, Number 1/June 2006. 75-88.

Seit den 1990er Jahren hat die Zahl derjenigen Publikationen und archäologischen Ausgrabungen zugenommen, die mit... more Seit den 1990er Jahren hat die Zahl derjenigen Publikationen und archäologischen Ausgrabungen zugenommen, die mit neuen Angaben zu den Straßen und Wegkonstruktionen sowie zum binnenpannonischen Straßennetz beitrugen. Dieses Forschungsgebiet ist uns leider bis heute die genaue Nachzeichnung des römerzeitlichen Straßennetzes in Ungarn schuldig geblieben. Diese versucht auch der Autor auf diesen Seiten nicht zu liefern. Sein Ziel ist vor allem, einige gute Beispiele an deren Erscheinungen auch von Ungarn zu präsentieren, die in der internationalen luftarchäologischen Forschung im Zusammenhang mit römischen Wegen (z.B. paralelles Grabensystem) aufgezählt werden. Ein weiteres Ziel auch einen Ausblick zu bieten, wie und warum dies bei der Untersuchung der noch nicht auf Landkarten eingetragenen römischen Strecke verwendet werden kann.

Magyar-francia légi régészeti kutatások Magyarországon - Recherches franco-hongroises d'archéologie aérienne en Hongrie en 2000.

by András Bödőcs

René Goguey - Czajlik Zoltán - Bödőcs András: Magyar-francia légi régészeti kutatások Magyarországon - Recherches franco-hongroises d'archéologie aérienne en Hongrie en 2000. Régészeti kutatások Magyarországon - Archaeological Investigations in Hungary, 2000., KÖH - Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2003, 75-86.

Aerial archaeological investigations in Hungary in 2007 (A short report of the activity of the 3D Research Laboratory of the ELTE Archaeological Institute)

by András Bödőcs

Czajlik Zoltán – Bödőcs András – Ďurkovič Éva – Rupnik László – Winkler Móni: Légirégészeti kutatások Magyarországon 2007-ben (Rövid beszámoló az ELTE Régészettudományi Intézetének Térinformatikai Kutatólaboratóriumában végzett munkáról) - Aerial archaeological investigations in Hungary in 2007 (A short report of the activity of the 3D Research Laboratory of the ELTE Archaeological Institute). In: Régészeti Kutatások Magyarországon – Archaeological Investigations in Hungary, 2007, KÖH-MNM, Budapest, 2008, 121-144.

PROJECT ARCHEYE – THE QUADROCOPTER AS THE ARCHAEOLOGIST’S EYE

by Holger Altenbach

Co-authored with Christian Seitz. Published in H. Eisenbeiss, M. Kunz and H. Ingensand (Editors): Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics (UAV-g), Vol XXXVIII-1/C22.

In archaeological research the exploration of archaeological monuments from the air has a long tradition and thus can... more In archaeological research the exploration of archaeological monuments from the air has a long tradition and thus can be seen as a necessary component. At this point our project ‘ArchEye’ steps in as a cheap and flexible method and also as a new way to document different archaeological areas and objects without using manned aircrafts.

Dokumentation aus der Luft. Ein neuer Ansatz in der Archäologie und Baudenkmalforschung.

by Holger Altenbach

Co-authored with C. Seitz and M. Winckler. Published in R. Stupperich/H.A. Richter (Editors.) Thetis. Mannheimer Beiträge zur Klassischen Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns, 16/17, 2010, 243-245.

PROJECT ARCHEYE – THE QUADROCOPTER AS THE ARCHAEOLOGIST’S EYE

by Christian Seitz

Co-authored with Holger Altenbach. Published in H. Eisenbeiss, M. Kunz and H. Ingensand (Editors): Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics (UAV-g), Vol XXXVIII-1/C22.

In archaeological research the exploration of archaeological monuments from the air has a long tradition and thus can... more In archaeological research the exploration of archaeological monuments from the air has a long tradition and thus can be seen as a necessary component. At this point our project ‘ArchEye’ steps in as a cheap and flexible method and also as a new way to document different archaeological areas and objects without using manned aircrafts.

Education in Aerial Remote Sensing for Archaeology

by DAVE COWLEY

AARG Occasional Publication Series No 1 was published in April 2009. It focuses on Education in Aerial Remote Sensing... more AARG Occasional Publication Series No 1 was published in April 2009. It focuses on Education in Aerial Remote Sensing for Archaeology and includes the draft report of the AARG/EAC Working Group on Education, which is available for comment until the end of July 2009. The publication also has papers on the general theme of education that should be of interest to many.

Il contributo della fotografia aerea alle ricognizioni dell’ager faliscus

by Gabriele Cifani

Co-authored wiht Rachel Opitz and Simon Stoddart

Developer-led archaeology in Flanders: an overview of practices and results in the period 1990-2010

by Jeroen De Reu

De Clercq, W., Bats, M., Bourgeois, J., Crombé, P., De Mulder, G., De Reu, J., Herremans, D., Laloo, P., Lombaert, L., Plets, G., Sergant, J., Stichelbaut, B., 2012.
In: Webley, L., Vander Linden, M., Haselgrove, C., Bradley, R. (Eds.), Development-led Archaeology in Northwest Europe. Proceedings of a Round Table at the University of Leicester. 19th-21st November 2009. Oxford/Oakville: Oxbow Books, 29-55.

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Czajlik Zoltán – Bödőcs András – Ďurkovič Éva – Rupnik László – Winkler Móni: Légirégészeti kutatások Magyarországon 2007-ben (Rövid beszámoló az ELTE Régészettudományi Intézetének Térinformatikai Kutatólaboratóriumában végzett munkáról) - Aerial archaeological investigations in Hungary in 2007 (A short report of the activity of the 3D Research Laboratory of the ELTE Archaeological Institute). In: Régészeti Kutatások Magyarországon – Archaeological Investigations in Hungary, 2007, KÖH-MNM, Budapest, 2008, 121-144.

by Zoltán Czajlik

Co-authored with András Bödőcs, Éva Ďurkovič, László Rupnik and Móni Winkler

Czajlik Zoltán – Tankó Károly – Winkler Móni: Légirégészeti kutatások Magyarországon 2006-ban (Rövid beszámoló az ELTE Régészettudományi Intézetének Térinformatikai Kutatólaboratóriumában végzett munkáról) - Aerial archaeological investigations in Hungary in 2006 (A short report of the activity of the 3D Research Laboratory of the ELTE Archaeological Institute). In: Régészeti Kutatások Magyarországon – Archaeological Investigations in Hungary, 2006, KÖH, Budapest, 2007, 121-135.

by Zoltán Czajlik

Co-authored with Károly Tankó and Móni Winkler

Czajlik Zoltán – Bödőcs András: Légirégészeti kutatások Magyarországon 2005-ben (Rövid beszámoló az ELTE Régészettudományi Intézetének Térinformatikai Kutatólaboratóriumában végzett munkáról) - Aerial archaeological investigations in Hungary in 2005 (A short report of the activity of the 3D Research Laboratory of the ELTE Archaeological Institute). In: Régészeti Kutatások Magyarországon – Archaeological Investigations in Hungary, 2005, KÖH, Budapest, 2006, 149-159.

by Zoltán Czajlik

Co-authored with András Bödőcs

Czajlik Zoltán: Légirégészeti kutatások Magyarországon 2004-ben (Rövid beszámoló az ELTE Régészettudományi Intézetének Térinformatikai Kutatólaboratóriumában végzett munkáról) - Aerial archaeological investigations in Hungary in 2004 (A short report of the activity of the 3D Research Laboratory of the ELTE Archaeological Institute). In: Régészeti Kutatások Magyarországon – Archaeological Investigations in Hungary, 2004, KÖH, Budapest, 2005, 121-142.

by Zoltán Czajlik

Czajlik Zoltán: Légirégészeti kutatások Magyarországon 2003-ban (Rövid beszámoló az ELTE Régészettudományi Intézetének Térinformatikai Kutatólaboratóriumában végzett munkáról) - Aerial archaeological investigations in Hungary in 2003 (A short report of the activity of the 3D Research Laboratory of the ELTE Archaeological Institute). In: Régészeti Kutatások Magyarországon – Archaeological Investigations in Hungary, 2003, KÖH, Budapest, 2004, 111-125.

by Zoltán Czajlik

Czajlik Zoltán: Légirégészeti kutatások Magyarországon 2002-ben (Rövid beszámoló az ELTE Régészettudományi Intézetének Térinformatikai Kutatólaboratóriumában végzett munkáról) - Aerial archaeological investigations in Hungary in 2002 (A short report on the work done in the GIS Research Laboratory of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University). In: Régészeti Kutatások Magyarországon – Archaeological Investigations in Hungary, 2002, KÖH-MNM, Budapest, 2004, 161-169.

by Zoltán Czajlik

René Goguey - Czajlik Zoltán - Bödőcs András: Magyar-francia légi régészeti kutatások Magyarországon - Recherches franco-hongroises d'archéologie aérienne en Hongrie en 2000. Régészeti kutatások Magyarországon - Archaeological Investigations in Hungary, 2000., KÖH - Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2003, 75-86.

by Zoltán Czajlik

Co-authored with René Goguey and András Bödőcs

Mapping by matching: a computer vision-based approach to fast and accurate georeferencing of archaeological aerial photographs

by Geert Verhoeven

Verhoeven, G.J., Doneus, M., Briese, C., Vermeulen, F., 2012. Mapping by matching: a computer vision-based approach to fast and accurate georeferencing of archaeological aerial photographs. Journal of Archaeological Science 39 (7), 2060–2070.

To date, aerial archaeologists generally apply simple rectification procedures or more expensive and time-consuming... more To date, aerial archaeologists generally apply simple rectification procedures or more expensive and time-consuming orthorectification algorithms to correct their aerial photographs in varying degrees for geometrical deformations induced by the topographical relief, the tilt of the camera axis and the distortion of the optics. Irrespective of the method applied, the georeferencing of the images is commonly determined with ground control points, whose measurement and identification is a time-consuming operation and often limits certain images from being accurately georeferenced. Moreover, specialised software, certain photogrammetric skills, and experience are required. Thanks to the recent advances in the fields of computer vision and photogrammetry as well as the improvements in processing power, it is currently possible to generate orthophotos of large, almost randomly collected aerial photographs in a straightforward and nearly automatic way. This paper presents a computer vision-based approach that is complemented by proven photogrammetric principles to generate orthophotos from a range of uncalibrated oblique and vertical aerial frame images. In a first phase, the method uses algorithms that automatically compute the viewpoint of each photograph as well as a sparse 3D geometric representation of the scene that is imaged. Afterwards, dense reconstruction algorithms are applied to yield a three-dimensional surface model. After georeferencing this model, it can be used to create any kind of orthophoto out of the initial aerial views. To prove the benefits of this approach in comparison to the most common ways of georeferencing aerial imagery, several archaeological case studies are presented. Not only will they showcase the easy workflow and accuracy of the results, but they will also prove that this approach moves beyond current restrictions due to its applicability to datasets that were previously thought to be unsuited for convenient georeferencing.

Computer vision-based orthophoto mapping of complex archaeological sites: the ancient quarry of Pitaranha (Portugal-Spain)

by Geert Verhoeven

Verhoeven, G., Taelman, D., Vermeulen, F., 2012. Computer vision-based orthophoto mapping of complex archaeological sites: the ancient quarry of Pitaranha (Portugal-Spain). Archaeometry. (In press, online available)

Ancient quarries are intriguing archaeological sites, but their detailed recording is complex. This paper presents a... more Ancient quarries are intriguing archaeological sites, but their detailed recording is complex. This paper presents a cost-effective approach to mapping of the Roman quarry site of Pitaranha (Portugal–Spain). First, aerial photographs were acquired using a radio-controlled digital reflex camera attached to a Helikite, which allowed the acquisition of the necessary low-altitude aerial footage in the very unstable wind conditions above the quarry. Using computer vision algorithms, the resulting set of photographs was semi-automatically transformed into a Digital Surface Model (DSM) and a corresponding orthophotograph. Besides focusing on the acquisition and processing method, this paper evaluates the accuracy of the generated products. The orthophotograph proved to be satisfactorily accurate for 1:200 hard-copy mapping.

Young AARG meeting 12th September 2012, Budapest

by Vedrana Glavaš

Young AARG meeting 12 September 2012, Budapest

by Johanna Dreßler

AARG’s committee fully supported the proposal to form a Young AARG (YAARG) and have provided space at its Budapest... more AARG’s committee fully supported the proposal to form a Young AARG (YAARG) and have provided space at its Budapest meeting for the first meeting of this group which will take
place on the afternoon of 12 September 2012.