Digital methods and remote sensing in archaeology : archaeology in the age of sensing / Maurizio Forte, Stefano Campana, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Data collection and technology. Terrestrial laser scanning in the age of sensing / Nicola Lercari ; Airborne laserscanning in archaeology: maturing methods and democratizing applications / Rachel Opitz -- II. Image and digital processing. Terrestrial lidar and GPR investigations into the third line of battle at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Guilford County, North Carolina / Stacy Curry, Roy Stine, Linda Stine, Jerry Nave, Richard Burt and Jacob Turner ; Applying UAS photogrammetry to analyze spatial patterns of indigenous settlement sites in the Northern Dominican Republic / Till F. Sonnemann, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta and Corinne L. Hofman -- III. Landscape representation and scales. Towards a holistic archaeological survey approach for ancient cityscapes / Frank Vermeulen ; Sensing ruralscapes. Third-wave archaeological survey in the Mediterranean area / Stefano Campana ; What do the patterns mean? Archaeological distributions and bias in survey data / David C. Cowley ; 3D tool evaluation and workflow for an ecological approach to visualizing ancient socio-environmental landscapes / Heather Richards-Rissetto, Shona Sanford-Long and Jack Kirby-Miller ; Visualizing medieval Iberia's contested space through multiple scales of visibility analysis / Edward Triplett ; Pre- and proto-historic anthropogenic landscape modifications in Siem Reap Province (Cambodia) as seen through satellite imagery / Kasper Hanus and Emilia Smagur ; The ambivalence of maps: a historical perspective on sensing and representing space in Mesoamerica / John K. Millhauser and Christopher T. Morehart -- IV. Simulation, visualization and computing. Cyber archaeology: 3D sensing and digital embodiment / Maurizio Forte ; Emergent relationality system/The insight engine / Bill Seaman -- Using 3D GIS platforms to analyze and interpret the past / Nicolo Dell'Unto ; Archaeology in the age of supercomputing / Devin A. White -- V. Interpretation and discussion. Measuring the face of the past and facing the measurement / William Fred Limp ; An integrated archaeological prospection and excavation approach at a Middle Neolithic circular ditch enclosure in Austria / Jakob Kainz ; Creating a chronological model for historical roads and paths extracted from airborne laser scanning data / Willem F. Vletter and Sandra R. Schloen -- VI. Cultural resource management: communication and society. From remote to embodied sensing: new perspectives for virtual museums and archaeological landscape communication / Eva Pietroni ; Cultural heritage and digital technologies / Riccardo Olivito, Emanuele Taccola and Niccolo Albertini.

"This volume debuts the new scope of Remote Sensing, which was first defined as the analysis of data collected by sensors that were not in physical contact with the objects under investigation (using cameras, scanners, and radar systems operating from spaceborne or airborne platforms). A wider characterization is now possible: Remote Sensing can be any non-destructive approach to viewing the buried and nominally invisible evidence of past activity. Spaceborne and airborne sensors, now supplemented by laser scanning, are united using ground-based geophysical instruments and undersea remote sensing, as well as other non-invasive techniques such as surface collection or field-walking survey. Now, any method that enables observation of evidence on or beneath the surface of the earth, without impact on the surviving stratigraphy is legitimately within the realm of Remote Sensing. The new interfaces and senses engaged in Remote Sensing appear through the book. On a philosophical level, this is about the landscapes and build environments that reveal history through place and time. It is about new perspectives - the views of history possible with Remote Sensing and fostered in part by immersive, interactive 3D and 4D environments discussed in this volume. These perspectives are both the result and the implementation of technological, cultural, and epistemological advances in record keeping, interpretation and conceptualization. Methodology presented here builds on the current ease and speed in collecting data sets on the scale of the object, site, locality, and landscape. As this volume shows, many disciplines surrounding archaeology and related cultural studies are currently involved in Remote Sensing, and its relevance will only increase as the methodology expands."-- Publisher's description.