Which license for ATOR?

Sometime we receive emails from people asking if it is possible to cite ATOR post in other publications. Of course we like to share our post freely, so we chose a Creative Commons license. Actually we are using a CC-BY-NC-SA, because we wanted that informations from ATOR remain freely accessible, but now we notice that the conditions NC (Non Commercial) and SA (Share Alike) can be a problem, because in most cases they prevent the publication in the standard paper edition. For this reason we are evaluating the use of a simple CC-BY, which will allow to cite ATOR in a more easy way.
But before to change we would like to know your opinion about it, so we create the poll you see in this page on the right. Please let us know your preference!

ArcheOS on github

Hi all,

we are migrating the ArcheOS project on github. Everybody who is interested in ArcheOS development will find more informations in this site. Every kind of help is appreciated, from software suggestion to bug reporting; from artwork to packaging, etc...  

Thank you all for your support!

ArcheOS and UAVP for archaeological remote sensing

Hi all,

Finally I uploaded the presentation we did in the CAA Southampton 2012. Until our website is down (for maintenance), you can see it here. Inside you can find more details about the aerial archaeology project we mentioned in the post Xcopter drone and SfM techniques.

Here you can see the first slide, in the new Arc-Team theme I did playing with beamer, LaTeX :).

As you see the license is the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0), which we are planning to adopt soon also for ATOR to facilitate content sharing.

2016-03-31 Update

Thanks to self-archiving I can now add the bibliography related with this post:

 ResearchGate: Articl

Academia: Article

I hope it will be useful, even if no more up to date it can be a starting point to work in Aerial Archeology with Open Software and Hardware.

ArcheoFOSS 2012, Rome 12-13 June

The adventure of ArcheoFOSS is going on and the next stop is in Rome. The workshop will be held on 12 and 13 June 2012, at the headquarters of the Roman National Museum of Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. The official website is here: http://www.archeofoss.org/archeofoss-2012/. If you want there is still time to submit an abstract  (until April 6)!

Below you can see the official logo, design by Paolo Cignoni in 2009.

PS

This year we reach the seventh edition of this event! Not bad for a workshop that was designed in a cafe in Vienna (2005).

QGIS for Android

One of the most interesting presentation we have seen in Southampton (CAA 2012) was the one of Jitte Waagen (Amsterdam Archaeological Centre, University of Amsterdam), regarding "Learning Sites" (a free and open source communication and data-exchange tool for archaeological field-work and education). Jitte said that by now they use net-books and GPS for their project, but they planned to port sooner or later everything on Android smartphones or tablets. Their problem, if I understood well, is that they need a portable version of QGIS for Android, as their project is based on this desktop GIS.

I could not help them in Southampton, because I did not remember exactly where to fine informations about QGIS and Android, but now that I am back home I can check ATOR and find Gunther's report (in Szabo's post) about this topic. Here is the text:

GuntherFeb 1, 2012 12:58 PM

I do not know if you know the QGIS project for android? I think it might be interesting in the context of field work with the android tablets.
http://www.bernawebdesign.ch/byteblog/

The website Gunther suggested is very interesting (I added in the "interesting blog" list) and from there I jumped here: http://hub.qgis.org/projects/android-qgis, where I found more information about the project to develop an Android version of QGIS. Here is a screensot of the website:

So I hope that this post will be useful for Jitte (if he will ever read it...) or for anyone who could be interested in Android an QGIS and I want to thank again Gunther for his report. I also want to remind the two posts of Szabo about the tool he is developing for Android (excavation-oriented): ArcTeamFindings (Android app) and http://arc-team-open-research.blogspot.it/2012/01/arcteamfindings-android-app-new-style.html.

Xcopter drone and SFM techniques

Hi,

today we will present in CAA2012 in Southampton (GB) the result we obtain using Structure from Motion techniques with aerial images. The hardware we used are:

- KKMulticoper

- Nikon CoolPix S210

- Gopro HD Hero

The software are:

-ArcheOS

-Python Photogrammetry Toolbox

The picture below shows the three different phases of work (data acquisition, data processing and final result)

The two cameras made different results: the 3D model of the Nikon is more dense, but using the Gopro it is possible to have bigger terrain model.

In the next days we will upload the slides of the presentation.

Thank to Walter Morelli and Walter Gilli which help us in this research.

2016-03-31 Update

Thanks to self-archiving I can now add the bibliography related with this post:

 ResearchGate: Article - Presentation

Academia: Article - Presentation

I hope it will be useful, even if no more up to date it can be a starting point to work in Aerial Archeology with Open Software and Hardware.

CAA 2012, Southampton

This year the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference will be hosted by the Archaeological Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southampton on 26-30 March 2012. Unfortunately we will have no time to stay the whole week in Southampton, but we will participate  to the session regarding "Novel Technologies For Supporting Archaeological Fieldwork" which will take place Wednesday, March 28. Our presentation ("Free and Open Source platform for remote sensing and 3D data acquisition") will focus on the combination of open source UAV (especially the UAVP drone) and ArcheOS. We will show as well some results about our last project of aerial archaeology in North Italy. 

I hope it will be an interesting experience (just to write some report about it). For more information about the congress, here is the official website: http://caaconference.org/.

Soon we will post the presentation, and some more details about our last research in UAV field.

2016-03-31 Update

Thanks to self-archiving I can now add the bibliography related with this post:

 ResearchGate: Article - Presentation

Academia: Article - Presentation

I hope it will be useful, even if no more up to date it can be a starting point to work in Aerial Archeology with Open Software and Hardware.