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The Aerial Archive is located at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the University of Vienna.
Its initial aim was to support Austrian archaeologists with aerial photographs and to perform aerial archaeology. During the last years, research work was directed more and more towards photogrammetrical techniques of image analysis. Today, apart from archiving a large stock of vertical and oblique aerial photographs, we also use sophisticated photogrammetrical hard- and software to map and visualize archaeological sites.
If you are interested in aerial
archaeology, taking and archiving aerial photographs, photo-interpretation or
mapping and visualizing sites, then you will probably find these pages useful.
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INTRODUCTION TO AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
This section will be a good starting point for anybody, who has no idea about aerial archaeology. After some introductory definitions, you can go deeper into the subject reading a brief history of aerial archaeology or learning something about its applications within archaeology. I will also explain to you, why and how buried sites can show up on the surface.
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THE AERIAL ARCHIVE
Enter our aerial archive and watch us at our daily work. Join us in taking aerial photographs in our main working area. If you are interested, you can get information on our archiving procedure. Try to interpret the archaeological structures and learn, how these are mapped using photogrammetrical tools. There will also be some nice visualizations of detected and analyzed sites. Finally, a very important task is the combination of all available data, to get a maximum on information about an archaeological site.
For those, who are thinking about taking a term at our institute, I offer also some information on the lectures, I give. |
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PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
This part will introduce you to photogrammetry. After reading an introductory essay on photogrammetry, its history and techniques, you can have a look at several photogrammetrical applications to (mostly field-)archaeology. Another section is dealing with pros and contras of photogrammetry in archaeology. The 3x3 rules are essential, if you want to document upstanding remains using your own "amateur" camera. For those interested, there is a list of books and articles on this subject. Finally, we want to ask you, to fill out a questionnaire, which will give us basic information for our future activities.
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 | EXHIBITION AREA
In the exhibition area, you will find small, illustrated "publications" on subjects concerning aerial archaeology and photogrammetrical applications to archaeology.
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LINKS
Some links concerning archaeology, prospection, photogrammetry, aerial photography etc...
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This site has been awarded in October 1998 by Médaille d'Or for Web Site Excellence. |
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This site has been awarded in October 1998 by Best of the Web - Bronze Award. |
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This site has been qualified as a featured site in September 1996 by ArchNet, the World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology. |
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This site is enhanced for Netscape Navigator 2.0 and contains lots of tables. If these are not displayed properly by your browser, I would recommend you get it now: |
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Scripts of Guestbook created by Matt Wright and can be found at Matt's Script Archive |
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visitors since August, 27th 1996.
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This is my first homepage. To be able to improve it, I need your comments! Please mail to: Michael.Doneus@univie.ac.at. Please be indulgent - English is not my mother tongue! A German version of the homepage will be available only in 1997. |
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