Folks,
I would like to invite any techno-geeks and the not so techno-geeky to Mark Willis and my symposium "KITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1912-2012: 90 YEARS OF STAGNATION AND 10 YEARS OF INNOVATION IN AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY", sponsored by ShovelBums LLC. The symposium will be in Room 205, Saturday 1-3PM at the SAA's in Memphis.
2012/2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the 1st time Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) was used in archaeology by Sir Henry Wellcome at Seqadi, Jabel Moya, Sudan. (And for what appears to be many decades to follow, the only time KAP was used in archaeology*).
Over the course of the century celebration I will be occasionally posting information and guides about KAP to ShovelBums to help educate the archaeology community about the ease and affordability of this exciting technology. My goal is to see KAP (and its related technologies) as routinely used in the field of archaeology within 10 years as geophysics is today. The only thing holding KAP back in archaeology is lack of familiarity and education. Using ShovelBums (sparingly) I plan to change that.
My thesis focused on the development and use of low cost (~$600) complete KAP kits for use in archaeology. There is currently only a handful of archaeologists using KAP today so if you would like to be at the frontier of this new part of the archaeology toolkit I would encourage you to attend this symposium and meet with others who are utilizing this "new" old technology. Remote Control airplanes and blimps are so 1970's (and fuel dependent), with kites, no matter how remote your project is, as long as you can recharge a AA battery you can do everything you need to do in KAP. Seriously, the basic parts of KAP are so simple, a Cultural Anthropologist could use it!
The last 10 years has seen a renaissance of KAP and this renaissance has only speeded up with the introduction in 2007 of a camera hack, CHDK, which allows for near autonomous control of cameras on kites (that means no need for a single operator to be fighting a remote and trying to fly a kite). If you are a company owner or if you run a field school you can (relatively easily) have an excellent KAP set up and running by time the summer field season hits this year. This means that in only a few months you can be viewing near realtime, high resolution, aerial photos of your excavation progress at both the micro and macro level (see attached). And if you have a serious techno-geek on staff you can be producing high resolution digital elevation data with techniques being developed by Mark and other. If you can't make it, be sure to send a minion in your stead. If your minion can't make it, then be sure to look up and wave when someone else starts flying a kite over your site and getting all the oblique angle glory that such skills bring.
So stop on by our symposium for free beer and snacks** and to find out more about how easy it is to bring KAP to your research.
Best,
R. Joe Brandon
* - If anyone knows of any KAP taking place after 1912/1913 please let me know. There seems to be this great void between 1913 and the 1980's in archaeological uses of KAP, but I expect there are cases out there that I have not been able to find.
** - Free beer and snacks? For a bunch of archaeologists? Are you crazy? I have seen how much those vultures will consumer when anything has "free" tacked on to it. So heck no, there won't be any free beer or snacks. But most of them probably won't read this far so no worries, it will at least get them in the door. Then they will just grumble about the "early birds" who must have come and skimmed the tables and then sit down and learn something really useful.
Symposium Information
Saturday April 21 1-3 PM
[226] ELECTRONIC SYMPOSIUM KITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1912-2012: 90 YEARS OF STAGNATION AND 10 YEARS OF INNOVATION IN AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY (Sponsored by www.ShovelBums.org) Room: 205 (CC)
Participants:
Time: 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Organizers: Robert Brandon and Mark Willis Chairs: Mark Willis and Robert Brandon
Steven Walker—Wellcome's initiative: kite aerial photography in the service of archaeological survey Mark Willis—Recent Innovations in Kite Aerial Photography and Structure from Motion Mapping
Alex Morrison and Matthew J. Bell—The Application of Kite and Pole Aerial Photography to 3 Dimensional Archaeological Modeling: Case Studies from the Pacific Islands Austin Hill—Discussant
Robert Brandon—100 Years of Kite Aerial Photography: Finally it's easy, economical, and ready for you to use Mike Bies—Discussant Chet Walker—Discussant
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