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Archaeology/Historic Preservation

 

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The Center is involved in a number of archaeological and historic preservation research efforts. Developments in informatics, geomatics and geophysics have lead to an exciting suite of new approaches and methods that can be used in the investigation, analysis and visualization of the past. These approaches take advantage of new developments in software and instrumentation.

Christopher Goodmaster conducts laser scanning with the VIVID 9i at Ostia Antica.CAST presents a unique setting (at least within the U.S.) where archaeologists, historians, historic architects and others gain access to these methods, tools and skilled practitioners in the fields of remote sensing, photogrammetry, high density survey, visualization, animation and informatics.

In addition to practitioners, the Center also provides access to state-of-the-art computational resources and an extensive suite of research instruments that includes survey grade GPS, long and short range laser scanners, multiple geophysical instruments and many other applications. The Center is also involved in  a broad range of projects that apply information technology to archaeological questions and this is another major emphasis of the Center.  The Center is a partner in the Archaeoinformatics.org consortium.

US and International Projects

The Center’s staff, working with collaborators around the globe, are involved in the application of geomatics and geophysical methods in current projects around the U.S., and in Peru, Italy, Bolivia, Turkey, Greece, United Arab Emirates, Syria and Egypt. CAST's extensive suite of field and laboratory instruments are available to faculty and students to be used in a range of innovative ways.

Research projects applying photogrammetry, laser scanning, remote sensing, visualization and geophysical survey are described in the pages on the menu at the left of the page.