The presentation given by Rob Fry on the DART research was picked up by ‘Archaeological Geophysics with snufffler’ blog. You can read it here.

The abstract that Ant Beck, David Stott and Doreen Boyd submitted to the ’3rd Workshop on Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management’ (EARSel 2012 Conference in Ghent) has been accepted.
The abstract was entitled ‘Using multi-temporal benchmarking to determine optimal sensor deployment’. You can see a copy of the abstract here.
Well done all.

During the window of beautiful weather (26th – 30th March) Anthony Beck, Dan Boddice, Rob Fry, Chris Gaffney and David Stott all attended the Computer Applications in Archaeology conference in Southampton. The conference was fantastic: there were 8 sessions of interesting presentations, many useful contacts and new friendships were made (as well as old friendships renewed) and there was obviously the socialising! It was interesting to put physical form to people I had only seen as twitter avatars. Dan, Rob and David all gave very good presentations on their different …

I’ve submitted the following abstract to the Computer applications and quantitative methods in Archaeology 2012 conference in Southampton:
Using Time Domain Reflectometry to monitor the geophysical properties of archaeological residues
D. Boddice, L. Pring, N. Metje, D.N. Chapman
Aerial and geophysical methods are widely used and valuable techniques for the detection, mapping and curation of the fragile archaeological resource. However, the changing geophysical properties of the soil, which vary spatially, seasonally and throughout the day, and their effect on sensor responses are poorly understood. A long term monitoring strategy to record the changing …

the following has been submitted to the CAA 2012 conference next year – awaiting approval
 
The effects of seasonal variation on archaeological detection using earth resistance: Preliminary results from an ongoing study
Robert Fry, Anthony Beck, Chris Gaffney, David Stott
The University of Bradford
R.J.Fry@student.bradford.ac.uk
Abstract
Electrical resistance geophysical surveys are known to produce variable results at different times of the year.  This is a problem which can often lead to a misinterpretation of an archaeological feature under investigation.  The dynamic relationship between a natural soil matrix and an archaeological feature is a complex one …

I’ve submitted the following abstract to the Computer applications and quantitative methods in Archaeology 2012 conference in Southampton:
 Seeing the unseen: Archaeological detection outside the visible spectrum
David Stott, Doreen Boyd, Anthony Beck and Anthony Cohn
In aerial prospection archaeological features are detected by the contrast between a feature and its surroundings. These contrasts are dynamic, and change over time with variations in local conditions. For example, vegetation marks are caused by changes in soil affecting the growth of the plants on the surface. These are only visible under certain conditions and appropriate …

Am oral presentation on the DART project has been accepted at the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) “Cultural heritage data acquisition and processing” conference in York on 17th-19th August 2011
This is a prestigious group and should be a very interesting conference both in the range of papers and the expertise of the delegates. The submitted thematic fit and abstract is detailed below:
Thematic fit

Visible, multi & hyper-spectral image acquisition & processing
Development of techniques & standards for cultural heritage survey
Best practise application of developing  survey technologies  within archaeology, architecture, …

It gives me great pleasure to introduce the four PhD students who will be researching into DART. They are:

Birmingham: Dan Boddice and Laura Pring
Bradford: Rob Fry
Leeds: David Stott

Dan, Rob and David are all funded under the DART Science and Heritage programme whilst Laura is funded by a departmental scholarship. All the students will start their research on 1st October.
Collaboration between the students and the institutions is going to be essential. Therefore, in order to get the students to meet one another (and members of one of the stakeholder communities) and …

A Mindmap that summarises presentations seen at conferences, workshops and other events.