Remote Sensing for Archaeology AARG/EAC/ISAP Working Party
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***2023 update: The working party is collecting information from archaeological remote sensing and aerial prospection specialists about their needs, priorities, skills and professional activities, alongside information about the needs and priorities of the organisations where they work. By collecting this information, we aim to provide the AARG/ISAP/EAC membership and the wider community with an overview of the state of archaeological remote sensing and aerial prospection and its contributions to archaeology and heritage management.
The survey is available at: https://forms.office.com/e/yZ1jWE3PfT and will remain open until 30 June 2023. The results of the survey will be presented at the AARG meeting in Zagreb in September 2023.***
2022 update: The EAC has commissioned the Remote Sensing Working Group to produce guidelines for the use of lidar in heritage management across Europe. Rebecca Bennett will be working with Rachel Opitz and Chris Gaffney (EAC Remote Sensing Working Group Co-Chairs) to bring together stakeholders and examples of best practice from across the continent.
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This working party is concerned with the promotion of techniques and development of best practice in remote sensing archaeology, with a particular focus on heritage management. Remote sensing underpins a large proportion of archaeological knowledge, including the detection and registration of monuments and the creation of reliable records, large-scale mapping and the monitoring and management of monument condition.
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The working party is a partnership between the EAC, the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG) and the International Society for Archaeological Prospection (ISAP), and thus represents the interests of heritage management, archaeological practitioners and researchers. It is a development from the EAC/AARG Aerial Archaeology working party established in 2007.
Co-chairs
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Dr Chris Gaffney - C.Gaffney@Bradford.ac.uk
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Dr Rachel Opitz - Rachel.Opitz@glasgow.ac.uk
Lidar guidance coordinator
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Dr Rebecca Bennett - rebecca@pushingthesensors.com
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Outputs
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In 2009 the EAC/AARG Aerial Archaeology working party produced a report and collected papers on Education in Aerial Remote Sensing for Archaeology. This was published as AARG Occasional Publication Series No 1 in April 2009 and is available as a free download PDF
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In 2010 the 11th EAC Heritage Management Symposium was held in Reykjavík, Iceland, on the subject of Remote Sensing for Archaeological Heritage Management in the 21st century. The proceedings were published in March 2011 by Archaeolingua as Cowley, D (ed.), Remote Sensing for Archaeological Heritage Management (EAC Occasional Paper No. 5 / Occasional Publication of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group No. 3)
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