Practice and Research
of Digital Archaeology
LIU Jianguo
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Abstract
Digital
archaeology is the integrative application of SPS (Satellite Positioning System),
Total Station, RS (Remote Sensing), GIS (Geographic Information System), VR (Virtual
Reality), Database and Internet/Intranet in archaeology, the important method
for employing all the archaeological information sufficiently, and also the
requirement of information era for archaeological research.
In digital
archaeology, SPS and total station could been utilized for surveying and
mapping all phenomenon accurately in archaeological site, remote sensing could
been used for prospecting remains underground and analyzing the relationship
between different ancient features, GIS could been applied for managing all the
data about sites and regions, and doing many queries and spatial analysis in
archaeological research, GIS data also could been created virtual ancient
cities, virtual archaeology sites, virtual museum and virtual process of excavation for public. All the data should been stored in
different database, cultural resource managers, archaeological researchers and
public could visit the different information in the database by definite authority
on Internet or Intranet.
Digital archaeology collect all the
information, e. g. topography, plan, imagery, text, audio, video from
archaeological survey, excavation and research, employ the method of CD store,
electronic publish, computer communication, will been used widely in cultural
resource management and archaeological research. Digital archaeology will make a
standard for collecting and applying archaeological data,
impel the development of archaeological research in new era.
Key Words: Digital archaeology Remote Sensing Geographic Information System