DART is a Science and Heritage project funded by the AHRC and EPSRC
Detection of Archaeological Residues using remote sensing Techniques (DART) is a three year, £815,000 Science and Heritage funded initiative led by the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. The Science and Heritage programme is funded jointly by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). To examine the complex problem of heritage detection DART has attracted a consortium consisting of 25 key heritage and industry organisations and academic consultants and researchers from the areas of computer vision, geophysics, remote sensing, knowledge engineering and soil science.
Enhanced knowledge of archaeological residues is important for the long-term curation and understanding of a diminishing heritage. There are certain geologies and soils which can complicate the collection and interpretation of heritage remote sensing data. In some of these ‘difficult’ areas traditional detection techniques have been unresponsive. DART will develop a deeper understanding of the contrast factors and detection dynamics within ‘difficult’ areas. This will allow the identification of appropriate sensors and conditions for feature detection. The successful detection of features in ‘difficult’ areas will provide a more complete understanding of the heritage resource which will impact on research, management and development control. Find out more here.
On the 16th May 2012 a ‘virtual’ meeting was held. The virtual meetings are designed to provide the DART investigating team with updates of general progress. This is crucial as the investigating team is distributed between a number of different universities. Prior to the meeting the student provide progress reports so we have a document such elements as progress, problems, outputs and achievements.
The bulk of the discussion at this meeting discussed general progress and problems with the weather station data. Future meetings will include specific discussions on modelling
The monthly student …
Recently we had a failure with one of the IMCO sensors (the array within the archaeological feature). With the help of Van Walt Ltd the defective sensor were replaced and the logger was re-installed yesterday. The probe is back at the same depths as before but some of the numbers have moved positions on the probe so any new archived data will have to be adjusted accordingly The numbers are now
Top: 32317 (was 32316)
Middle: 32318 (was 32318)
Bottom:32354 (was 32354)
The data is being recorded on the globelog website (http://globelog.de/globelog/portal/listview.php), logger number 149. …
ALLEA (ALL European Academies) The European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities has released a declaration concerning Open Science in the 21st Century. It is available here. This powerful, but short, document sets the scene for the potential future impact of Open Science. Rather than paraphrasing it I’ll just leave the pre-amble here…….
Data are the bedrock on which the scientific edifice is built. More efficient data-sharing and more open access to information and resources will make it easier for observations to be confirmed, experiments to be replicated, hypothesis …
ASSESSING THE UTILITY OF HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION AND MAPPING
Is a new project from EH and Birmingham VISTA centre. This project is essentially evaluating how fine spatial resolution satellite sensors (c. 0.5m panchromatic and c. 2m 4 band multispectral) can be used within the National Mapping Programme workflow. This promises to provide a useful benchmark from which to evaluate the utility of new technologies (particularly large footprint near-infrared imagery).
The project is managed by DART stakeholder Keith Challis and DART will liaise with this team. We have already …
DART is very fortunate to have two new colleagues. Dave Harrison and Raghavendra (Reddy) Mohan have joined the DART team on short term contracts. Reddy is following up on his DART MSc project from 2011 by doing further laboratory growth experiments and aiding another MSc student in replicating the 2011 experiments. It is hoped that Reddy’s work will lead to a collaborative publications with Professor Christine Foyer late in 2012.
Dave is a final year PhD student who is dealing with many of the data repository issues. This is principally focussed …
