Dear list,
We would like to invite people to submit abstracts for the
AAA (Australian Archaeological Association) session this year on “Google Earth, Open Source and other Emerging Spatial
Technologies: Innovation and Application in Archaeology”. The session is being
convened by Illya Santos and Stafford Smith at the University of Western
Australia. If you would like to present then
please forward an Abstract to us by September the 30th.
If you would like more information about our session please
contact us (details below) and please distribute this to any of your colleagues
who you feel may be interested. For further information on the conference please visit http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehlt/conferences/archaeology/aaa2009/aaa2009_home.cfm
Google Earth, Open Source and other Emerging Spatial Technologies:
Innovation and Application in Archaeology
In this session we would like to examine the ways in which
emerging spatial technologies are being used in the study and practice of archaeology
in Australia
and abroad. Archaeologists have been using aerial photographs for over 70 years
to study the ground and provide targets for excavation and survey. Since the
70s, often in tandem with aerial surveys, archaeologists have been using GIS programs
to map and analyze sites. Recently however, there has been a proliferation of
spatial technologies, from recording devices, to economically viable satellite
imagery, to open source software.
Google Earth is
probably the best known of these emerging spatial technologies. In addition to
its repository of satellite imagery, it also offers an easily accessible
platform to distribute spatial data, through Keyhole Markup Language. A number
of open source geospatial technologies are also emerging as real alternatives
to traditionally expensive options with everything from operating systems
specific to archaeology to fully customizable GIS programs. These tools are
being used in creative ways for viewing, displaying, analyzing and storing
information by research, commercial and education organizations all over the
world. How is this reflected in archaeology currently? What are
Australian archaeologists doing with these technologies now and what would we
like to do in the future?
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Illya Santos (Geospatial Technologies)
eureka archaeological research and consulting UWA
Archaeology M405
University of Western
Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley 6009
p: (08) 6488 3948
f: (08) 6488 1023
e: eureka@...
Illya.sparkes.santos@...
Stafford Smith
Research Assistant
Aerial Archaeology of Jordan Project
School of Humanities
University of Western
Australia
R: G30, Arts Building
T: 08 64882188
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