ArcLand in the media
Spiegel Online, one of Germany's biggest online magazines, is reporting about ArcLand and new surveying techniques in archaeology:
The article is also available in German:
Spiegel Online, one of Germany's biggest online magazines, is reporting about ArcLand and new surveying techniques in archaeology:
The article is also available in German:
Call for Papers and Posters CAA2013 PERTH - Across Space and Time. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Perth, Western Australia 25-28th March 2013.
The CAA2013 PERTH conference 'Across Space and Time' will be held at the University Club of Western Australia from Tuesday 26 – Thursday 28 March 2013. Workshops will be held on Monday 25 March on the UWA campus.
CAA (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) is the premier international conference for all aspects of computing, quantitative methods and digital applications in Archaeology. With a history going back to 1972, CAA encourages participation from scholars, specialists and experts in the fields of archaeology, history, cultural heritage, digital scholarship, GIS, mathematics, semantic web, informatics and members of other disciplines that complement and extend the interests of CAA. For further information about this exciting interdisciplinary conference see the website http://caa2013.org.
The CAA 2013 Organising Committee invites proposals for papers and posters relating to all aspects of computer applications, quantitative methods and digital applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Paper and Poster proposals are due by 10th October 2012 (UTC).
The conference will be comprised of over 40 sessions and workshops. The main themes of the conference include the following:
Papers which do not fit within any of the specified sessions may be submitted to the General Session and may be reassigned by the Review Committee as appropriate. The list of proposed sessions and workshop is available online: http://www.caa2013.org/CAA2013sessions.pdf
The CAA 2013 Conference will include several formats for the delivery of content, including the following:
Posters: A poster session will provide an opportunity for preliminary work to be presented and discussed directly with the presenter.
All research presented at CAA2013, regardless of the delivery format, may be submitted after the conference for publication in the peer reviewed conference proceedings
The conference will include a number of half and full day pre-conference workshops. Workshops will generally include practical work or other active participation of attendees.
Please submit your proposal via the CAA Open Conference System at https://caaconference.org/ocs. The CAA Open Conference Systems (OCS) submission tool will receive submissions starting the 21st August 2012 (UTC). If you do not have a login, please create one at the ACCOUNT tab and select CAA2013. Make sure you check AUTHOR at the bottom of the registration form (if you do not select AUTHOR you will not be able to submit your proposal).
If you previously logged into the CAA Open Conference System (OCS) for the CAA 2012 Southampton conference, you can log with the same user name and password. Should you have log in problems, use the "Forgot your password?' link on the LOG IN tab to recover your user name and a new password.
The abstract should consist of two parts: a 100 word short abstract, which will be used for the conference booklet, and an extended abstract up to 500 words, providing further information on which reviewers can assess the submission.
If you have any technical problems in uploading your submission please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We look forward to seeing your proposal and seeing you in Perth in 2013.
The CAA2013 Perth Across Space and Time Organising Committee
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Web site: www.caa2013.org
Submissions: www.caaconference.org/ocs
The aims and objectives of ArcLand have been subject in the 2nd issue of the DAI publication "DAI weltweit" ("DAI worldwide") which is available (in German) from the webpage of the German Archaeological Institute.
A free LiDAR toolbox software is available from ArcLand. The Lidar Visualisation Toolbox LiVT written by Ralf Hesse at the State Office for Cultural Heritage Baden-Württemberg has now been published as an open source software project under the GNU General Public License (GPL). LiVT is a software for the computation of a variety of visualisations from high-resolution DEM data. Starting with the current version LiVT 1.0.0.20, Windows binaries, source code and documentation are now available for download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/livt/. The main change from version 1.0.0.19 to 1.0.0.20 is the addition of MultiScaleIntegral Invariants (MSII).
The project ArchaeoLandscape Europe is funded by the European Union within the framework of the Culture 2007-2013 framework (CU7-MULT7, Strand 1.1 Multi-Annual Cooperation Projects). This website reflects the views of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.