Integrating Aerial and Satellite Imagery: Discovering Roman Imperial Landscapes in Southern Dobrogea (Romania)

Oltean, Ioana A.; Hanson, W. S.

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“…Over the past few decades, there has been a significant amount of research by international teams at forts such as Noviodunum and Halmyris (e.g. Lockyear et al 2005;Zahariade and Karavas 2015), with additional landscape survey work undertaken by Oltean and Hanson (2014). Syntheses have been published on excavations at individual sites such as Troesmis (Alexandrescu et al 2016), Novae (Ciołek and Dyzcek 2011;Sarnowski 2005), Nicopolis ad Istrum (Poulter 1995), Dichin (Poulter 2019) and Capidava (Opriș and Rațiu 2017).…”

Section: Transformation On the Lower Danubementioning

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The Roman Lower Danube Frontier

2023

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Over the past few decades, there has been a significant amount of research on the Roman Lower Danube frontier by international teams focusing on individual forts or broader landscape survey work; collectively, this volume represents the best of this collaboration with the aim of elevating the Lower Danube within broader Roman frontier scholarship. The Lower Danube, running between Singidunum (modern Belgrade) and Halmyris in the Danube Delta, was one of the most densely fortified regions of the Roman Empire. The region has long been a border zone, today forming part of the border between Serbia and Romania, and the majority of the border between Romania and Bulgaria. Despite its importance for understanding both Roman frontier policy and the relationship between ancient and modern borderscapes, the region has not yet made its full contribution to international Roman scholarship. Bridging the theoretical divide that exists between different regional research traditions, chapters in this volume focus on sites like Ratiaria, in modern north-western Bulgaria, while other contributors examine the complex landscape from a wider perspective oriented around roads, temporary camps, or early Christian sites. The Roman Lower Danube Frontier emphasises the importance of engaging with Roman frontier landscapes, particularly in regions such as East-Central Europe, where they remain part of a contemporary borderscape.

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The Roman Lower Danube Frontier

2023

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“…While in an ideal world archaeological survey is informed by all readily available data, there is also a need to assess the cost/benefit of that position, especially where extensive (i.e., national) coverage is a key objective and risks such as land‐use change are accelerating. Here, there is a need to assess the cost/benefit and fitness for purpose of data (Cowley et al, 2020, 113–6; see also Oltean & Hanson, 2013, for such an assessment in Romania), a position that is as applicable to the assessment of satellite data as it is to, for example, historic aerial photographs (e.g., Cowley et al, 2013, 25–6; Cowley & Stichelbaut, 2012, 228–30).…”

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An assessment of high temporal frequency satellite data for historic environment applications. A case study from Scotland

McGrath

Cowley

Hood

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Archaeological Prospection

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This paper assesses the value of high temporal frequency satellite data with various spatial sampling resolutions for multi‐scalar historic environment survey and management use cases in Scotland, specifically for broad‐brush landscape characterisation, for monitoring the condition of monuments and for the discovery of otherwise unknown sites. Dealing with a part of the world where applications of satellite imagery are almost entirely unexplored, this study takes a real‐world approach, which foregrounds the purpose at hand rather than presenting a case study from an optimal setting. The study highlights the importance of detailed imagery to support interpretation in some instances, and the challenges of obtaining time‐critical optical imagery in a part of the world that experiences significant periods of cloud cover. The real‐world availability of data in such settings is assessed, highlighting that even with daily revisits, useable imagery cannot be guaranteed. The implications of current and past tasking patterns for availability of high‐resolution data now and in the future are discussed. The study identifies the complementary roles that satellite imagery can fulfil, while identifying the limitations that remain to fuller applications of such data, in a study that will be relevant to many parts of Europe and beyond.

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“…In southern Italy, John Bradford's discoveries while working as a military aerial photo interpreter in 1945 revealed extensive Neolithic and Roman remains ( Figure 2; Bradford, 1957;Jones, 1980Jones, , 1987Musson & Radcliffe, 2010). In Romania an ongoing aerial research programme (Oltean & Hanson, 2007;Oltean & Hanson, forthcoming) has shown the value of historical photographs in a country without a long-established aerial tradition. In Belgium, hundreds of previously undetected medieval moated sites were discovered by examining aerial photographs taken during World War I, when deliberate inundations for strategic military purposes along the front line formed 'watermarks' revealing the presence of these ditched monuments to archaeological observers nearly a century later (Stichelbaut et al, forthcoming).…”

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“…papers in Bewley & Rączkowski, 2002), with a sustained emphasis on observer-directed survey in light aircraft and handheld, oblique photography. However, there has been a growing realization of the importance for archaeologists of collections of aerial photographs taken for purposes such as military intelligence and map making, the vast majority ranging in date from World War I to the present (Cowley & Ferguson, 2010;papers in Going, 2002;Rączkowski, 2004;Winton & Horne, 2010;Cowley et al, 2010a;Ferguson, 2011;Hanson & Oltean, forthcoming). These many millions of aerial photographs are undoubtedly the single largest, almost completely unexploited, resource available to European archaeologists, and have massive potential to inform primary site discovery, documentation, and heritage management.…”

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Historic Aerial Photographic Archives for European Archaeology

Cowley

Stichelbaut

2012

Eur. j. archaeol.

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This article reviews the potential of archives of historic aerial photographs for European archaeology. Their roles in primary site discovery, in monitoring condition and material change, and in understanding landscape development with particular reference to the implementation of the European Landscape Convention are discussed. The major sources are briefly described and their characteristics outlined. The impacts that differing national and regional research traditions and heritage policy have on the use of these archival collections is discussed in the framework of issues of variable accessibility and approaches to ensuring appropriate uses, including identifying limitations.

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Integrating Aerial and Satellite Imagery: Discovering Roman Imperial Landscapes in Southern Dobrogea (Romania)

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The Roman Lower Danube Frontier

The Roman Lower Danube Frontier

An assessment of high temporal frequency satellite data for historic environment applications. A case study from Scotland

Historic Aerial Photographic Archives for European Archaeology

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