Remote sensing, digital documentation strategies, time/space analysis and interpretation in Archaeology

Archaeology as an academic discipline studies patterns in past human communities. Data collected during fieldwork, typically excavations and increasingly survey-based projects, is extremely varied in nature, pertaining to all aspects of daily life in the past. In and of itself this primary archaeological evidence is mute. To make matters worse, some of the recovery methods of archaeological evidence are destructive in nature. Therefore, increasingly, a wide spectrum of digital methods and techniques are being employed, in the first place in order to avoid destruction of heritage by applying remote and proximal sensing techniques on sites, or, when excavation is unavoidable or warranted on scientific grounds, to document the entire process in great detail. This project not only wishes to boost the digital data capturing capacities at the University of Leuven and Ghent University, but wishes to take matters further, by co-developing a GISbased encompassing information system, generating higher efficiency and performance in time/space analysis, and mostly brokering new avenues of research based on hitherto unexplored digital architectures.