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Thursday, 7 November 2013 (symposium at Heidelberg Academy of Sciences)
| 10.00 a.m. | Reception and registration |
| 11.00 a.m. | Opening and welcome address Prof. Dr. Thomas Holstein (Chairman of Heidelberg Academy of Sciences) Prof. Dr. Bernhard Eitel (Rector of Heidelberg University) Dr. Christoph Siart, Markus Forbriger (Organizing Committee) |
| 11.30 a.m. | Session 1: Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions 1) Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Bernhard Höfle, Irina Rabenseifner – The Heidelberg Koumasa Project. A Geoarchaeological Approach to the History of a Marginal Mediterranean Landscape. 2) Lukas Loos, Michael Auer, Nicolas Billen, Alexander Zipf – MayaArch3D – a 3D webgis for archaeological research 3) Felix Bachofer, Geraldine Quènèhervèa, Michael Maerkera, Volker Hochschild – Paleolake-delineation within the Lake Manyara basin, Northern Tanzania |
| 1.00 p.m. | Lunch break |
| 2.00 p.m. | Session 2: Spatial Analysis and Feature Extraction (pt.I) 4) Benjamin Vis – Demonstrating Boundary Line Type Mapping for the Comparative Formal Description of the Socio-Spatial Properties of Urban Built Environments 5) Volker Sossna – Theory and Practice. Experiences with a Non-Professional Database Solution under Field Conditions 6) Hubert Mara – retrieving manmade features from high resolution 3D models with gigamesh |
| 3.30 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 4.00 p.m. | Session 3: Spatial Analysis and Feature Extraction (pt.II) 7) Eleftheria Paliou – Enhancing the interpretation of Roman street networks: The application of urban network analysis to integrated geophysical datasets 8) Daniel Knitter, Luise Lorenz, Oliver Nakoinz – Graves, pottery, and pathways of Funnel Beaker societies in relation to their natural environment |
| 5.00 p.m. | Special lecture Heiko Riemer – Wadi Sura and the Cave of Beasts: Interdisciplinary studies on a Saharan rock art landscape |
| 5.45 p.m. | Get-together at Beletage of Heidelberg Academy of Sciences |
| 7:30 p.m. | Conference dinner (optional) |
Friday, 8 November 2013 (symposium at Heidelberg Academy of Sciences)
| 9.00 a.m. | Session 4: Remote Sensing and Visualization 9) Olaf Bubenzer, Andreas Bolten – Detecting ancient caravan routes from satellite imagery and field observations, Egypt 10) Karsten Lambers, Igor Zingman – The past as seen from space: Detecting archaeological objects in high-resolution satellite images of the Silvretta Alps 11) Olaf Wagener, Hubert Mara, Markus Forbriger, Bastian Rieck, Christoph Siart – Castle meets Computer: Visualizing the blown up tower of Heidelberg Castle in 3D using high resolution terrestrial laser scanning |
| 10.30 a.m. | Coffee break & Poster session |
| 11.30 a.m. | Session 5: LiDAR in Geoarchaeology 12) Bernhard Höfle – Geoinformation extraction from 3D pointclouds- current status and future perspectives. 13) Ralf Hesse – Visualising archaeological topography – current methods for analytical visualisation of high-resolution digital elevation models. 14) Dirk Hoffmeister, Kehl, M.; Pastoors, A.; Kindermann, K.; Zielhofer, C.; Reicherter, K.; Weniger, G.-C.; Bubenzer, O.;Bareth, G. – Terrestrial laser scanning surveys supporting geoarchaeologic research of the CRC806: Our way to Europe |
| 1.00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2.00 p.m. | Session 6: Multi-method Research Designs and Geophysical Prospecting 15) Felix Teichner – Ecological changes, natural desasters and economic crisis – new scenarios for the Hispania romana and its non-agricultural economy 16) Katerina Theodorakopoulou, C. Athanassas, Y. Bassiakos, G. Schukraft, M. Forbriger, S. Hecht, B. Mächtle, G.A. Wagner – A geoarchaeological approach for the localization of the prehistoric harbour at Akrotiri, Thera. 17) Ayla Jung, Timo Lang – Combining archaeological and geophysical methods – A case study about the Gallo-Roman settlement area of Oberlöstern (northern Saarland) 18) Erich Nowaczinski – 3-dimensional reconstruction of Early Bronze Age pits – 3D and pseudo-3D geoelectrics |
| 4.00 p.m. | General discussion, conclusion and closing at Beletage |
Saturday, 9 November 2013 (workshop, extramural*)
LiDAR in geoarchaology – terrrestrial laser scanning in theory and practice
*hosted by the LiDAR Research Group of Heidelberg University, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Höfle and Martin Hämmerle
| 8.15 a.m. | Get-together in front of the conference venue (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences) and subsequent shuttle service to workshop site |
| 8.30 a.m. | Introduction and on-site practice |
| 12.00 a.m. | Lunch break |
| 1.00 p.m. | Data Processing and Visualisation (GIScience Computer Lab) |
| 4.00 p.m. | End of Workshop |
Digital Geoarchaeology 