During the International Summer School students and lectures - after three days theoretical lessons - spend four days into the field collecting geophysical measurement. The archaeological test-site is placed on lowland quite close to Grosseto, the city where the University of Siena recently open a satellite of the Department of Archaeology and History of Arts and where there was the headquarter of the Summer School. The site is a further big roman villa starting form the first century AD that we estimated occupied until the sixth century AD. Grid collection and pottery analysis allow us to recognize the re-occupation of the site during the late ninth and tenth century AD. The site measure about 4 hectares in extent so we decide to focus our attention on four square sample of 50 by 50 meters where we rotated four different geophysical methods: magnetometry (fluxgate, Overhouser, Cesium), ground penetration radar (GPR), electro-magnetometry (EM), electrical resistivity tomography (ERT). In this section we repot the work achieved during the Summer School but also we publish the data collected starting from the 2001 when the site has been discovered during the Aerial Archaeology Research School (Culture 2000 project) to the last survey we did in autumn 2007. One intention working on the Aiali test-site is to apply the highest available level and intensity of archaeological prospection methods on a large, complex and stratified site, producing material from the from Etruscan, Roman and Medieval periods. As our good friend Chris Musson has argued – during one of our long discussions on this topic – the archaeological objective and outcome of the Aiali project has to take account of the critical impact of the kinds of information that are available for recording: to use his own words “in assessing the potential or interpretation of a landscape it is at least as important to know what may not be visible as to appreciate what is visible”. The first and in the second chapters of section 2 Stefano Campana introduces the site background and the results obtained through remote sensing tools from Quickbird-2 satellite imagery, to vertical air photographs and aerial survey. In chapter 3 Emanuele Vaccaro and Mariaelena Ghisleni provide the results of field walking survey, grid collection and the detailed study of pottery. Chapter 4 is addressed by Stefano Campana and Salvatore Piro to introduce the geophysical surveys of the site. In the next chapter Helmut Becker, Stefano Campana, Thomas Himmler and Iacopo Nicolosi to discuss the results in the sample areas of different magnetic sensors (Fluxgate, Overhouser And Caesium-Magnetometry). Chapter 6 handles with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys by Dean Goodman and Salvatore Piro. Chapter 7 discuss the results obtained through the application of electromagnetic survey by Alain Tabbagh while the next one deals with the last methods applied during field work, electrical survey and is summarized by Michel Dabas and Gianfranco Morelli. As conclusion Stefano Campana and Salvatore Piro, an archaeologist and a geophysicist, try to combine all the information together. Through a GIS-based analysis the editors integrate different sources geophysical measurement as well satellite imagery, aerial photograph, archaeological information collected during field walking survey and archaeological knowledge. The critical impact of the work is addressed to show the improvement of available archaeological information as a consequence of the improvement of the survey methods.

Campana, S. (2009). Remote sensing: Aerial photography and satellite imagery. In Seeing the unseen. Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology (pp. 273-277). LONDON : Taylor&Francis.

Remote sensing: Aerial photography and satellite imagery

CAMPANA, STEFANO
2009-01-01

Abstract

During the International Summer School students and lectures - after three days theoretical lessons - spend four days into the field collecting geophysical measurement. The archaeological test-site is placed on lowland quite close to Grosseto, the city where the University of Siena recently open a satellite of the Department of Archaeology and History of Arts and where there was the headquarter of the Summer School. The site is a further big roman villa starting form the first century AD that we estimated occupied until the sixth century AD. Grid collection and pottery analysis allow us to recognize the re-occupation of the site during the late ninth and tenth century AD. The site measure about 4 hectares in extent so we decide to focus our attention on four square sample of 50 by 50 meters where we rotated four different geophysical methods: magnetometry (fluxgate, Overhouser, Cesium), ground penetration radar (GPR), electro-magnetometry (EM), electrical resistivity tomography (ERT). In this section we repot the work achieved during the Summer School but also we publish the data collected starting from the 2001 when the site has been discovered during the Aerial Archaeology Research School (Culture 2000 project) to the last survey we did in autumn 2007. One intention working on the Aiali test-site is to apply the highest available level and intensity of archaeological prospection methods on a large, complex and stratified site, producing material from the from Etruscan, Roman and Medieval periods. As our good friend Chris Musson has argued – during one of our long discussions on this topic – the archaeological objective and outcome of the Aiali project has to take account of the critical impact of the kinds of information that are available for recording: to use his own words “in assessing the potential or interpretation of a landscape it is at least as important to know what may not be visible as to appreciate what is visible”. The first and in the second chapters of section 2 Stefano Campana introduces the site background and the results obtained through remote sensing tools from Quickbird-2 satellite imagery, to vertical air photographs and aerial survey. In chapter 3 Emanuele Vaccaro and Mariaelena Ghisleni provide the results of field walking survey, grid collection and the detailed study of pottery. Chapter 4 is addressed by Stefano Campana and Salvatore Piro to introduce the geophysical surveys of the site. In the next chapter Helmut Becker, Stefano Campana, Thomas Himmler and Iacopo Nicolosi to discuss the results in the sample areas of different magnetic sensors (Fluxgate, Overhouser And Caesium-Magnetometry). Chapter 6 handles with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys by Dean Goodman and Salvatore Piro. Chapter 7 discuss the results obtained through the application of electromagnetic survey by Alain Tabbagh while the next one deals with the last methods applied during field work, electrical survey and is summarized by Michel Dabas and Gianfranco Morelli. As conclusion Stefano Campana and Salvatore Piro, an archaeologist and a geophysicist, try to combine all the information together. Through a GIS-based analysis the editors integrate different sources geophysical measurement as well satellite imagery, aerial photograph, archaeological information collected during field walking survey and archaeological knowledge. The critical impact of the work is addressed to show the improvement of available archaeological information as a consequence of the improvement of the survey methods.
2009
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Campana, S. (2009). Remote sensing: Aerial photography and satellite imagery. In Seeing the unseen. Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology (pp. 273-277). LONDON : Taylor&Francis.
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