Project

Mapping buried remains of Roman urban and rural domestic architecture using multi-offset ground-penetrating radar

Code
3E018413
Duration
01 October 2013 → 25 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Archaeology
    • Theory and methodology of archaeology
    • Other history and archaeology
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Geophysics
    • Physical geography and environmental geoscience
    • Other earth sciences
    • Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
  • Engineering and technology
    • Modelling
    • Biological system engineering
    • Signal processing
    • Geomatic engineering
Keywords
Multi-offset data acquisition archaeological geophysics Ground-penetrating radar Roman domestic architecture archaeological prospection
 
Project description

In this project, we will further develop multi-offset ground-penetrating radar, where different distances (offsets) between transmitter and receiver are used for data acquisition. When applied on a large enough scale, this should produce clearer horizontal slices of the soil. This technique will be used in archaeological contexts: Roman houses and farmsteads in Mariana (Corsica) and the Potenza Valley (Marche, Italy).