Overview
- Shares current research from an innovative field with immediate implications for scholars working in history, archaeology & geoarchaeology, geography, cultural heritage methodology, and the earth sciences more broadly
- Represents cross-disciplinary topics at the intersection of the humanities and hard sciences
- Includes topics for collecting, interpreting, and sharing data from remote and close range sensing, 3D modeling, spatial technologies, and virtual landscapes ?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences (QMHSS)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Data Collection and Technology
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Image and Digital Processing
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Landscape Representation and Scales
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Simulation, Visualization and Computing
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About the editors
Stefano Campana is currently MC advanced Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge UK. He is specializing in landscape archaeology, remote sensing, GIS, and archaeological methodology for purposes of research, recording, and conservation. His work is focused on the understanding of past landscapes from prehistory to the present day. The principal context for his work has been Tuscany but he has also participated in and led research work in the UK, Spain, Turkey, Palestine, and Asia. Since 2006 he has been a faculty member of the University of Siena (Italy), in the Department of History and Cultural Heritage, where he has engaged in teaching and research as Senior Lecturer in Ancient Topography. He has been very active in the international sphere and has established a sound reputation for innovative research. In 2011 he was proposed and admitted as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) and in 2012 he was invited to be a member of the General Management Board of HIST, the Governing Board of the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage, under the auspices of UNESCO and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology
Book Subtitle: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing
Editors: Maurizio Forte, Stefano Campana
Series Title: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40658-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40656-5Published: 20 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82147-4Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40658-9Published: 10 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2199-0956
Series E-ISSN: 2199-0964
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 496
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 175 illustrations in colour
Topics: Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Archaeology