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Editorial 3
Chairman’s Piece by Oscar Aldred 6
AARG 2013, Amersfoort 9
Interpreting Archaeological Topography: blurb + ordering information 10
YAARG – an open working party of AARG by Johanna Dreßler and Oscar Aldred 12
Forthcoming conference; Workshop; Information for contributors 14
Aerial Archaeology Workshop in Doha, Qatar: February 10-14 2013 by Bob Bewley, David Kennedy and Wlodek Raczkowski 15
What do you see here? Review of Archaeology from Aerial Photographs, an International Workshop at Bamberg, Germany by Marko Barišic and Alexander Veling 19
53 years of technical progress in aerial archaeology 1960-2013: a cursus at Karden Kreis Cochem, Germany by Irwin Scollar and Otto Braasch 22
A geoarchaeologist’s view of aerial archaeology by David Jordan 29
Integrating magnetometer surveys and oblique aerial photographs by Jörg Fassbinder 37
Musings on a past and future for AARG? by Rog Palmer 42
Cropmarks 50
Review article (Roman Camps in Scotland) by Toby Driver 52
Books of interest? 55
*Rebecca Bennett. Archaeological remote sensing: visualisation and analysis of grass-dominated environments using airborne laser scanning and digital spectral data. (PhD Thesis)
*Martin Gojda and Martin Trefny (ed). Archeologie Krajiny pod Rípem (Archaeology in the Landscape around the Hill of Ríp)
*Michael Doneus, Christian Gugl and Nives Doneus, 2013. Die Canabae von Carnuntum – eine Modellstudie der Erforschung römischer Lagervorstädte Von der Luftbildprospektion zur siedlungsarchäologischen Synthese
*Lis Helles Olesen and Kira Jørstad Klinkby. Fredede fortidsminder fra luften: muligheder for registrering fra luften
*Hanson, W.S and Oltean, I.A. (ed). Archaeology from Historical Aerial and Satellite Archives
*Comer, D.C. and Harrower, M.J. (ed). Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space
*Alexandra Cordier. Archéologie aérienne en Côte-d’Or en 2011: les aléas d’une sécheresse précoce.
*Revue Archéologique de l’Est, t.61 (2012), 371-383
*Plus shorter notices….
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Frontispiece: London Olympics 2012 by Otto Braasch 2
Editorial 3
Chairman’s Piece by Oscar Aldred 6
Aerial Archaeology course, Czech Republic, 18-23 June 2012 by Lucie Culikova 9
A picture is worth a thousand words…at least at the Aerial Archaeology Training School in Merida! by Cristina Charro Lobato 11
Report on summer school of “Potential of satellite images and hyper-/multispectral recording in archaeology” 30th July – 3rd August 2012 by Jitka Jizerova 14
First Aerial Archaeology Research and Training School in Turkey 20 – 30th July 2012 a.k.a. No Sick Bag For You by Marko Cekovic 17
Forthcoming workshop and conferences 19
Four photos taken from a balloon over Berlin in the infancy of aerial photography by Ole Risbøl and Susanne Kaun 20
Things on strings and complex computer algorithms: Kite Aerial Photography and Structure from Motion Photogrammetry at the Tulul adh-Dhahab, Jordan by Jochen Reinhard 37
What a difference a year makes: preliminary DART datasets from Cherry Copse, Cirencester by R. Fry, D. Stott, D. Boddice and A. R. Beck 42
Pickering’s packages: some thoughts on cursus monuments by Kenneth Brophy 48
Aerial reconnaissance of maritime landscapes in Scotland – some preliminary observations on context, methodology and results by Dave Cowley, Jonathan Benjamin and Colin Martin 64
Aerial Archaeology in Jordan 2010-2012 by Bob Bewley, David Kennedy, Rebecca Banks and Mat Dalton 74
Cropmarks 82
Information for contributors 83
Review article (Historic Wales from the Air) by Oscar Aldred 84
Books of interest? 86
*Rebecca Bennett, Kate Welham, Ross A. Hill and Andrew Ford. A Comparison of Visualization Techniques for Models Created from Airborne Laser Scanned Data
*Arne Ramisch, Wiebke Bebermeier, Kai Hartmann, Brigitta Schütt, Nicole Alexanian. Fractals in topography: Application to geoarchaeological studies in the surroundings of the necropolis of Dahshur, Egypt
*David L. Kennedy. Pioneers above Jordan: revealing a prehistoric landscape
*David C. Cowley and Birger B. Stichelbaut. Historic Aerial Photographic
*Archives for European Archaeology
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Editorial 2
Chairman’s Piece by Oscar Aldred 5
AARG 2012: Budapest, Hungary: First call for papers 7
Computer vision techniques: towards automated orthophoto production by G. Verhoeven, M. Doneusand Ch. Briese 8
Georeferenced Orthophotos and DTMs from Multiple Oblique Images by Irwin Scollar and Daniel Giradeau-Montaut 12
Fast and automated image rectification with a small (free) software by Gianluca Cantoro 18
Messy Landscapes Manifesto by Dimitrij Mlekuž 22
A review of the CORONA Atlas of the Middle East (Beta) by Martin J F Fowler 24
The role of aerial photographs in monitoring change and managing ancient monuments: a case study from Scotland by Aelfwynn Freer 30
AARG News 35
Young AARG by Johanna Dreßler and Vedrana Glavaš 36
Workshops, forthcoming, etc 37
Cropmarks 41
A book review (A View from the Air) and some observations on publication by Dave Cowley 45
Books of interest? 49
- Martyn Barber. A History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology: Mata Hari’s glass eye and other stories.
- J. Henry Fair. The Day after Tomorrow: Images of our Earth in crisis.
- Verhoeven, G and Doneus, M., 2011. Balancing on the Borderline – a Low-cost Approach to Visualize the Red-edge Shift for the Benefit of Aerial Archaeology.
- M. J. F. Fowler. Modelling the acquisition times of CORONA satellite photographs: accuracy and application.
- M. J. F. Fowler. Declassified intelligence satellite photographs and the archaeology of Moscow’s Cold War anti-ballistic missile system.
- L. Helles Olesen, H. Dupont, C. Dam. Luftfotos over Danmark: luftfotoserier I private og offentlige arkiver.
- Papers from past CPIA symposia
- Helen Wickstead and Martyn Barber. A Spectacular History of Survey by Flying Machine!
- Allan Williams. Above Wartime Europe: The Top Secret Aerial Photographs of World War Two.
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