Aims and topics
The professor will be describe the principles, pratice and case studies of geophysics. Specific sessions will be dedicated to the
data collection with the collaboration of GEOSTUDI ASTIER. The measurements will be downloaded, processed, georeferenced
and interpreted in a GIS context.
The length of the school is planed to be one week 'full time'
The School will provide students with about, 24 hours of introductory lessons, 16 hours of field survey, 16 hours of data processing and GIS based interpretation
Program
Teaching sessions: day 1-4
The teaching sessions will be arranged so as to give students a basic grounding in theoretical aspects of geophysics and related methods of remote sensing. Through specific case studies the students will be shown the potentialities and limitation of various geophysical techniques in the field of archaeology and in the integration with related methods.
Fieldwork: day 4-8
During the research activities of the LAP&T (Archaeological map of Grosseto, Aerial Survey
Programme and other research projects) we have documented many archaeological sites, mainly
through fieldwalking survey and aerial survey. The analysis would be improved through the
integration of geophysical survey on two case studies (see pictures below).
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Features of a Roman villa close to the ancient city of Cosa. Site survey from the air during the International Summer School 2005 |
Triple ditch enclosure discovered from air survey. The field walking showed evidence of earthworks and early-medieval pottery |
In particular the School we will use electromagnetic, magnetometer, geoelectric and radar survey techniques. All the data will be georeferenced using differential GPS.