Aerial Photography and Archaeology 2003
December 8th - 12th 2003, Ghent, Belgium

The papers of the congress will be published in September 2005, in the Archaeological Reports Ghent University.
Organisation
Organising committee - Comité Organisateur: Jean Bourgeois, Philippe Crombé, Pieter De Coninck, Marc Meganck, Jacques Semey
Program - Programme
| Wednesday | ||||
| 08,00-09,00 | Registration/Inscription | |||
| 09,00-10,00 | Opening ceremony - Cérémonie d'ouverture | |||
| 10,00-10,30 |
Session 1: History of Aerial Photography -
Histoire de la Photographie Aérienne president: O. Braasch |
B. Bewley | Aerial Survey in England - the first century | |
| 10,30-11,00 | R. Agache & J.Cl. Blanchet | Archéologie aérienne de la France du nord: publication électronique et base de données patrimoniales | ||
| 11,00-11,30 | W. Raczkowski | To overcome infirmity: current approaches to aerial archaeology in Poland | ||
| 11,30-12,00 | Coffeebreak - Pause café | |||
| 12,00-12,30 | L. Grunwald | From the Beginning to the Present - History of Aerial Archaeology in Lower Saxony | ||
| 12,30-13,00 | J. Bourgeois, M. Meganck & J. Semey | Almost a century of Aerial Photography in Belgium. An overview | ||
| 13,00-14,30 | Lunch | |||
| 14,30-15,00 | K. Brophy | The impact of aerial photography on Neolithic studies | ||
| 15,00-15,30 | Ch. Going | A survey of the RAF/USAAF cover of Europe, and its heritage importance | ||
| 15,30-16,00 | M. Anderton | Concept, Strategy and Invention: Aerial Photography, Military Archaeology, and Historical and Cultural Analysis | ||
| 16,00-16,30 | Coffeebreak - Pause café | |||
| 16,30-17,00 |
Session 2: Recent developments -
Développements récents president: W. Raczkowski |
M. Gojda | Ancient Landscapes hidden and visible. Air Survey and Rethinking the History of Space and Settlement in Central Europe: towards a Synthesis | |
| 17,00-17,30 | I. Kuzma | New discoveries in Slovakia | ||
| 17,30-18,00 | R. Schwarz | Aerial reconnaissance in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | ||
| Thursday | ||||
| 09,00-09,30 | M. Doneus | Aerial Archaeological Prospection of the Viking Age Settlement in Haithabu | ||
| 09,30-10,00 | M. Brown | Aerial Survey and Designed Landscapes in Scotland | ||
| 10,00-10,30 | B. Lambot | |||
| 10,30-11,00 | Y. Xinshi | Aerial archaeological reconnaissance at Yangling ,China | ||
| 11,00-11,30 | M. Schönherr | Aerial Archaeology and new dicoveries by a flying wing model | ||
| 11,30-12,00 | Coffeebreak - Pause café | |||
| 12,00-12,30 |
Session 3: Aerial Photography and GIS -
Photographie Aérienne et SIG president: M. Doneus |
M. De Meyer | Houthulst and the A19 Project: Inventory of World War I Heritage Based on Wartime Aerial Photography and Trenchmaps | |
| 12,30-13,00 | M. Lodewijckx, I. Roovers & R. Pelegrin | Aerial survey in Eastern Flanders: a start with promising prospects. | ||
| 13,00-13,30 | J. De Man et alii | A laser based DEM, new possibilities for Flemish archaeologists | ||
| 13,30-14,30 | Lunch | |||
| 14,30-15,00 | T. Wiedemann, F. Vermeulen, M. Antrop & B. Hageman | Ancient lines in the landscape: the use of GIS and aerial photography for the study of ancient roads and field systems in Flanders. | ||
| 15,00-15,30 | F. Vermeulen, G. Verhoeven & J. Semey | The integration of aerial photography and GIS in the Potenza Valley Survey (Italy) | ||
| 15,30-16,00 | M. Willbertz | ADABweb - Base de données archéologiques sur l’intranet du pays fédérale Basse Saxonie | ||
| 16,00-16,30 | Coffeebreak - Pause café | |||
| 16,30-17,00 | J. Mialdun, I. Mirkowska & W. Raczkowski | Early medieval fortified sites in north-eastern Poland: a proposal of archaeological information system | ||
| 17,00-17,30 | D. Korobov | Mapping the Medieval agricultural traces with help of GIS and aerial photography | ||
| 17,30-18,00 | J. Haigh | From photographs to maps; a collaborative development | ||
| Friday | ||||
| 09,00-09,30 |
Session 4: Use of Aerial Photography in
Heritage Management & Research - Utilisation de la Photographie Aérienne
dans la gestion du patrimoine et dans la recherche president: M. Gojda |
D. Cowley | Vertical and oblique photography: integrating the resources | |
| 09,30-10,00 | M.R. del Arbol | The application of aerial photography and satellitary imagery to the conservation and management of cultural parks | ||
| 10,00-10,30 | T. Driver | High peaks, deep valleys: Triumphs and challenges in surveying upland Wales from the air | ||
| 10,30-11,00 | N. Andrikopoulou | Protecting the archaeological heritage by using aerial photographs - Chances and limits of an archaeological method | ||
| 11,00-11,30 | Coffeebreak - Pause café | |||
| 11,30-12,00 | M. Calado | |||
| 12,00-12,30 | B. Cherretté | Circles for the dead. An archaeological inquiry into the Bronze Age in Flanders (2nd millennium BC) | ||
| 12,30-13,00 | O. Braasch | Tracks and Traces Abroad | ||
| 13,00-14,30 | Lunch | |||
| 14,30-15,00 | St. Bödecker | A polygon shaped ditch system at Kalkar - a camp of the Legio I? | ||
| 15,00-15,30 | J. Vanmoerkerke | Le rôle de la prospection aérienne dans l’archéologie actuelle : exemples de Champagne et de Lorraine | ||
| 15,30-16,00 | P. Gilman | Aerial archaeology is of vital importance in the county of Essex (United Kingdom) | ||
| 16,00-16,30 | Coffeebreak - Pause café | |||
| 16,30-17,00 | R. Jones | Surveying the Antonine Wall: Digital Integration and Research | ||
| 17,00-17,30 | M. Ziolkowski | Photographie aérienne et satélitaire et prospection archéologique dans les Andes Centrales. | ||
| 17,30-18,00 | Final considerations | B. Bewley & J Bourgeois | ||
| Posters | S. Aleksejchouk | 3D GIS in archaeology (Comprehensive approach in reconstruction of archaeological monuments) | ||
| G. Ceraudo | Photogrammetry addressed to archaeology | |||
| M. De Meyer | Archaeological Research using Satellite Remote Sensing Techniques (Corona) in the Valleys of Shirwan and Chardawal, Iran | |||
| M. Doneus | Archaeological Feedback of the Aerial Archaeological Interpretation of an Early Medieval Graveyard in Frohsdorf, Lower Austria. | |||
| W. Gheyle | CORONA and ASTER satellite imagery used for archaeological survey and detailed mapping of remote areas (Altai, Russia). | |||
| D. Krasnodebski | Polish Aerial Photography from year ca. 1920 | |||
| I. Kuzma | New discoveries in Slovakia | |||
| I. Mirkowska, R. Raczkowski & J. Mialdun | Early medieval fortified sites in north-eastern Poland: a proposal of archaeological information system | |||
| M. Willbertz | Was ist eine Fundstelle? | |||
| I. Bourgeois, J. Bourgeois & J. Semey | Enclos quadrangulaires: monuments à fonction rituelle de l’âge du fer en Flandre sablonneuse. L’ apport de la photographie aérienne. | |||
| I. Bourgeois, M. Meganck & J. Semey | Enclos fossoyés de l’âge du fer en Flandre sablonneuse: vestiges de fermes indigènes? | |||