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Martin Sauerbier, Thomas Hanusch, Karsten Lambers
Satellite imagery for archeological applications

Martin Sauerbier
Thomas Hanusch
Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
E-mail: {martin.sauerbier, hanuscht}@geod.baug.ethz.ch

Karsten Lambers
German Archaeological Institute (DAI-KAAK, Bonn)
lambers.kaak@gmx.de

This workshop is a follow-up of our successful workshop “Satellite image processing for archaeological applications” held at the CAA 2007 conference in Berlin. Satellite images covering the visible, but also other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, have become more and more important in many spatially related fields, among them archaeology, throughout the last years and can be expected to grow further in importance, with the increasing availability of very high resolution imagery provided by government agencies and private companies (e.g. WorldView-1 with 50 cm footprint).
While our 2007 workshop focused on the underlying theory of image processing, this workshop will focus more on practical exercises and demos using archaeological data. The participants will be given the opportunity to work with different Open Source and Freeware software packages using satellite image data. Furthermore, we will demonstrate SAT-PP (Satellite Imagery Precision Processing), a software for georeferencing and automated generation of Digital Terrain Models (DTM) from satellite and aerial imagery developed at the Chair of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at ETH Zurich. Several data sets from projects successfully conducted in our group will be used for the practical exercises.
The workshop comprises lectures and a practical part. During 3 hours of lectures, we will give an introduction to the fundamentals of image orientation, DTM generation and image-based classification techniques, and discuss archaeological applications. Each of these three parts will be directly followed by the respective practical exercises.
The number of participants is limited to 15. Participation in the 2007 workshop is not a prerequisite. The duration of the workshop will be 6 hours.

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