Speaker Series: Ottawa Archaeology & Geospatial Social

Join GoGeomatics Ottawa this March for some Roman Archaeology and GIS.

Title: ‘Seeing the Old with the New: The Advancing World of GIS, History, and Archaeology‘

The relationship between history and GIS has existed in various fashions for years, yet it has been in the last two decades where these conjoined fields have expanded exponentially. GIS has allowed old things to be seen in new ways from rediscovering lost settlements with remote sensing, to recreating ancient cities in 3D design programs.

For his talk on this subject, Alan will be discussing some historical projects that he completed and continues to work on since transitioning into geomatics with a focus on 3D reconstructions of ancient cities and geostatistical analysis of pottery artifacts from an archaeological dig outside of Rome. Alan will conclude with leading into where and in what way history and GIS can continue to work together now, and into the future.