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Sudan
DOI Artikel:Małkowski, Wiesław: Listing archaeological sites with a total station tachometer: data processing opportunities for surveyed sites
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42092#0507
MtoM - MEROWE SHERIQ, TANQASI, ZUMA
SUDAN
Combining a digital model with external
database about recorded features facilitates
textual queries to the model, producing
substantive and statistical information
about observed features. Quick access to
data, use of modern technologies and the
dynamics of data processing make this
effective method very useful in archae-
ological research.
Connecting a database about objects
recorded on the map permits textual queries
to the digital model in real time, meaning
that a graphic preview is presented of the
selected group of objects. The selection is
then cached in the computer's memory or
printed on paper for confrontation in the
field. Combining graphic and textual data is
a fundamental characteristic of the Geo-
graphical Information System (GIS). Simul-
taneous review of drawing documentation
and textual data base gives a very broad field
of analysis and subsequently presentation of
the digital model. The software for
connecting a vectorical map and external
data base needs to have interface permitting
specific link definition between data base
records and objects recorded in drawing so
that selection of a database record calls up
the corresponding graphic element on the
map.
Automation of field data measuring
and mapping reduces the time required
normally by traditional planimetric
techniques (keeping a journal of measure-
ments and manual mapping) while
increasing precision of both measurements
and drawing, because mapping precision
matches the precision of measurements in
the field owing to direct data transfer of
point coordinates to the map-generating
software. Thus, the concept of the map
itself is slowly changing, the analog paper
map that was the result of mapping field
measurements directly on paper or other
available carrier being now replaced by
a digital map that can be updated directly
in the field using the hugely useful Total
Station or GPS equipment. The analytical
potential of the digital map thus generated
is enormous thanks to interaction with
external data bases and adaptation to other
sources of information, like air photo-
graphy, geophysical prospection, 3-D
documentation, etc.
REFERENCES
Gajos, M., Myga-Pi^.tek, U. (eds)
2003 Geographical Information Systems. Interdisciplinary Aspects, Sosnowiec-Zagreb
Piro, S. (ed.)
2005 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, Rome
504
SUDAN
Combining a digital model with external
database about recorded features facilitates
textual queries to the model, producing
substantive and statistical information
about observed features. Quick access to
data, use of modern technologies and the
dynamics of data processing make this
effective method very useful in archae-
ological research.
Connecting a database about objects
recorded on the map permits textual queries
to the digital model in real time, meaning
that a graphic preview is presented of the
selected group of objects. The selection is
then cached in the computer's memory or
printed on paper for confrontation in the
field. Combining graphic and textual data is
a fundamental characteristic of the Geo-
graphical Information System (GIS). Simul-
taneous review of drawing documentation
and textual data base gives a very broad field
of analysis and subsequently presentation of
the digital model. The software for
connecting a vectorical map and external
data base needs to have interface permitting
specific link definition between data base
records and objects recorded in drawing so
that selection of a database record calls up
the corresponding graphic element on the
map.
Automation of field data measuring
and mapping reduces the time required
normally by traditional planimetric
techniques (keeping a journal of measure-
ments and manual mapping) while
increasing precision of both measurements
and drawing, because mapping precision
matches the precision of measurements in
the field owing to direct data transfer of
point coordinates to the map-generating
software. Thus, the concept of the map
itself is slowly changing, the analog paper
map that was the result of mapping field
measurements directly on paper or other
available carrier being now replaced by
a digital map that can be updated directly
in the field using the hugely useful Total
Station or GPS equipment. The analytical
potential of the digital map thus generated
is enormous thanks to interaction with
external data bases and adaptation to other
sources of information, like air photo-
graphy, geophysical prospection, 3-D
documentation, etc.
REFERENCES
Gajos, M., Myga-Pi^.tek, U. (eds)
2003 Geographical Information Systems. Interdisciplinary Aspects, Sosnowiec-Zagreb
Piro, S. (ed.)
2005 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, Rome
504