GPS, GIS and the Civil War Battlefield Landscape: A South Carolina Low Country Example

Smith, Steven D.; Clement, Christopher Ohm; Wise, Stephen R.

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“…Geographic Information Systems have seen a wide range of applications in the field of Cultural Resources Management, in particular archaeology [31], distribution mapping [32], predictive modeling of site presence [33] and threats to sites posed by a range of hazards [34,35], as well as in general cultural asset and information management [36][37][38]. It has been used to interpret layering in cultural landscapes [39,40], including battlefield landscapes [20,[41][42][43][44] and has been successfully used in the analysis of battlefields and the hindcasting of commanders' decisions [45][46][47][48]. Most of the CRM approaches taken were predictive modeling of site location or bringing together a plethora of historic and spatial data that could be queried on a geo-spatial scale [49,50].…”

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Using 3D Spatial Visualisation to Interpret the Coverage of Anti-Aircraft Batteries on a World War II Battlefield

Spennemann

Poynter

2019

Heritage

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Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) focuses on the documentation and visualization of heritage properties which are confined in their permanent terrestrial space. This paper extended the concept of Heritage Building Information Modeling to the airspace above the sites. It presented a methodology for the 3D spatial visualisation of the aerial space controlled by anti-aircraft (AA) guns, taking into account the masking effects of the underlying terrain and the technological capabilities of the guns (rate of fire, projectile weight, etc.). The tool permits a nuanced analysis of the interplay between attacking aircraft and the siting of anti-aircraft guns and thus, allows for the analysis of the cultural landscape of World War II-era battle fields, which has to take into account the influence of aerial warfare. The applicability was illustrated by the case example of the Japanese WWII base on Kiska (Aleutian Islands).

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