Pioneers of aerial archaeology: the Bayerische Fliegerstaffel in Palestine (1917-1918)

Bavarian military pilots were among the pioneers of aerial archaeology. The “Fliegerstaffel” documented a huge amount of archaeological sites especially in Palestine. Many of these sites nowadays are destroyed or not visible in its original shape anymore

Comparison of GPR results with UAV photogrammetry at a Roman villa rustica in Noricum (southern Bavaria)

Ground penetrating radar was used for mapping the layout of a Roman villa rustica. Adjacent rescue excavation results were mapped by UAV photogrammetry. The combination with a photogrammetric model enables a ground truthing of GPR result

Reconstructing a Romanesque church based on GPR results

We present an integrated prospection of the remains a medieval monastery in Lower Franconia (Germany) built over with a Renaissance castle. The geophysical data is combined with a photogrammetric model of the Renaissance castle. Based on the geophysical data, a virtual reconstruction of the medieval church was achieved

Evaluation of the benefits for mapping faint archaeological features by using an ultra‐dense ground‐penetrating‐radar antenna array

Modern archaeo-geophysical radar surveys are often executed with multichannel antenna arrays, which allows a much faster survey progress combined with a denser profile spacing. Furthermore, from a methodological point of view, a full 3D dataset is necessary to resolve small targets of a few decimetre diameter. However, only a few test surveys deal with the evaluation of the real improvement in data quality by applying such multichannel arrays. In this paper, a test survey with the IDS Stream-C 600-MHz radar device on a small area covering the Roman Bath of Kempten-Cambodunum is presented. The aim of the study is to figure out whether faint archaeological remains like hypocaust pillars, that is, the pillars of a Roman floor heating system, that are missed by single-channel devices, are detectable in an ultra-dense antenna array. Thus, the same area was simultaneously mapped with both GPR configurations. The results of this case study demonstrate the benefit of such antenna arrays for the archaeological prospection of small subsurface features with a diameter of 25 cm or less. For ground-truthing of the results, a comparison with old excavation maps was executed

War related impacts (WRI) in archaeological magnetometer data

The relevance of archaeological prospection in conflict landscape research is briefly outlined. Several examples of WRI in magnetometer data are presented and systematized. For a prediction of filled bomb craters in magnetometer data, respective characteristics are worked out

Chances of Airborne SAR in the Investigation of Buried Archaeological Sites in Moist Soil in Bavaria

In the last few years, the use of Synthetic-Aperture-Radar (SAR) has become quite widespread owing to a dramatic improvement of the resolution of the corresponding sensors. After the first tests at sites in Syria (Linck, 2013; Linck et al., 2013), several further works have been published in recent years (e.g. Chen et al., 2016; Stewart et al., 2016; Lasaponara & Masini, 2019; Tapete & Cigna, 2019). All of these previous studies have two things in common: they are mainly investigating sites in desert and/or arid region and they are using satellite SAR data. With the use of Airborne SAR data, the resolution can be further improved due to the lower flight altitude, especially by applying a circular flight. Within this project, the chances of detecting buried archaeological remains in humid regions of Bavaria shall be investigated. All results are in-situ checked by previous GPR surveys of the Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites (BLfD)

Magnetometry of neolithic sites in the Mil Plain of Azerbaijan

Ergebnisse geophysikalischer Prospektionen in der Milsteppe in Aserbaidscha

Geophysikalische Prospektion im neolithischen Silexrevier von Arnhofen (Stadt Abensberg, Lkr. Kelheim, Niederbayern)

Ergebnisse der geophysikalischen Prospektion im neolithischen Silexrevier von Arnhofe

Monumentalbauten in Pompeiopolis – Mit Bodenradar in der Hauptstadt der ehemaligen römischen Provinz Paphlagonien

Ergebnisse der Radarprospektion in Pompeiopolis (Nordanatolien

Magnetometermessung einer umfriedeten bandkeramischen Siedlung bei Wipfeld (Lkr. Schweinfurt, Unterfranken)

Ergebnisse geophysikalischer Prospektion einer neolithischen Siedlung bei Wipfel