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Archaeological and Other Uses of Kites
Incorporating much of the original list kindly provided to us by
Peter Bults
(KAPshop)
See also
Wikipedia - Kites
Archaeologists
- do you have a kite aerial
photo of an archaeological site or historic building?
e-mail John
to add your
kite aerial photo
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Sir Henry
Wellcome
� Wellcome Library, London.
Kite aerial photograph taken with the 'kite camera',
at Segadi, Jebel Moya, Sudan. 1913
Published with the
permission of the Wellcome
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Arthur Batut
La photographie a�rienne par cerf-volant
(Published 1890
Paris) |
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R. Thiele
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George Lawrence
(2)
1906 San Francisco
Click on image for larger version.
Wiki Commons. |
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Samuel
Franklin Cody
� IWM
(RAE-O 518) 1908 |
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E. Douglas Archibald
The Story of the Earth's Atmosphere
(Published 1897
page 186) |
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French
KAP Unit WW1
video
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Ronny Weβling
Burgenland - Austria
Sandur - Faroe Islands
� Ronny Weβling |
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Detection of Archaeological Residues using
remote sensing Techniques
The
DART Project
CC-BY Archaeobobalist
Kite aerial photo: Monthly survey in progress on the
clay site in Cambridgeshire.
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Hugo Anderson-Whymark
Ness of Brodgar
Ness of Brodgar
Ness of Brodgar
Skara Brae and Skaill House taken from Skaill Bay
� 2013 Hugo Anderson-Whymark |
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Adam Stanford
Burrough on the Hill, Leicestershire.
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Ness of Brodgar |
Vindolanda, Northumberland.
� Aerial-Cam |
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Susie
Green
� Susie Green
Edinshall Broch,
Berwickshire. |
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�skar G Sveinbjarnarson
� �skar G
Sveinbjarnarson
There are numerous links on the net to Oskar's
archaeological KAP.
Here is a the Rhynie Environs Archaeological Project in Aberdeenshire. |
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Alan Hunter Blair
Temple
Wood at Kilmartin, Argyll.
� Alan Hunter Blair |
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Arni Geirsson
Skri�uklaustur in NE Iceland. Excavation
Urri�akot, Iceland. Excavation
� Arni Geirsson |
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Joanna Balcerzak and Michal Pisz
� Arc-Photo |
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Piotr Mądry and Ania
Wdziszewo (N52.02'26''
E16.34'41'') the old
settlement of Lusatian.
� Blue Kite Team |
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Sonnenobservatorium Goseck.
�
Ralf Beutnagel
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Mark Houshold,
Archaeology Department, Durham
University.
The Bell, College Valley, Northumberland NT 90188
28829. � Mark Houshold
Taken with an Olympus Tough 12 from a Sutton FF16 Kite
(AuRiCo Brookes Frame). |
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Ben Gourley, Formerly of the Department of Archaeology, University of York.
Westray, Orkney � Ben Gourley
Burdale, Yorkshire. � Ben Gourley
Stymphalos, Corinthia.
� Ben Gourley |
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Fran�ois Levalet
Wood fish trap "La Maillard".
� Fran�ois Levalet |
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An Archaeologist Uses Kite
Aerial Photography
Detail from the montage of Pillistay in the Caman� valley of the far
south coast of Peru, which gives an idea of the high resolution possible.
This quality of stone-by-stone recording of a large archaeological site
would be
difficult and expensive to achieve without KAP.
� 2006, Bruce Owen |
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Stefan Biermeier & Axel Kowalski
Early Medieval Graves.
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Singularch |
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Miron Bogacki 
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John Schoenfelder
St�ra
Seyla, Iceland.
�
John
Schoenfelder |
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Du Ciel: Thomas Sagory
Shibam, Yemen.
� Thomas Sagory
Oxyrhynchos - El-Bahnasa, Egypt.
� Thomas Sagory |
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Bill Isenberger:
Digital Mapping
KAP
at Al Baleed Archaeological Park in Salalah, Oman.
� Bill Isenberger |
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See also 3D Kite Aerial Photography
CC-BY West Lothian Archaeology
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Mark Willis Kite Aerial Photogrammetry
Madera Quemada KAP.
� Mark Willis |
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Christian Credner
KAP and Archaeology
KAP GeoArt and
Achaeology in Gesotz in the Eifel.
�
Christian Credner |
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Arch�o-volant |
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Jochen Reinhard
(2)
Tulul adh-Dhahab.
� Jochen Reinhard
Selinunte Temple, Sicily.
CC-BY
Jochen Reinhard |
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Normandy
WWII |
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Emmanuel
www.photo-cerf-volant.fr
� Emmanuel |
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La Photographie Sous
Cerf-Volant |
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Kite Aerial
Photography in Poland |
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Eyeflight
see also
www.flickr.com/eyeflight.
� Eyeflight |
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Flickr (Forts
from a kite's view) |
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Autumn
Colors of Estonian Peat Bogs |
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KAP in
Denmark |
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Nathan Craig
Three image KAP panorama of the
shell midden
at Choque Ispana, El Paraiso, Huacho, Peru.
Image assembled with Microsoft ICE.
� Nathan
Craig |
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Eric Kieboom
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Eric Kieboom |
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The Campanile Movie image-based
modeling and rendering techniques (1997)
See also here |
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Thermal / near infra-red and
ultra-violet KAP
See also
Photographic Techniques
St. Ninian's Chapel,
Bute. Inverted, near infra-red
KAP.
CC-BY West Lothian Archaeology (images in print)
CC-BY West Lothian Archaeology
Kite aerial thermogram of Cairnpapple
Composite near infra-red KAP shot of Rubha Aird a' Mhuile Kelping
Bothies, Uist.
� Jim
Knowles West Lothian Archaeology Group
CC-BY West Lothian Archaeology
Kite aerial near ultra-violet
image. Brickworks after demolition.
Kite aerial thermogram of a soybean crop by
Larry C. Purcell
� Larry C Purcell
Illustrating variation in irrigation.
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Geert Verhoeven
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Comparison between
a visible frame (A), unprocessed RAW UV image (B) and enhanced UV
photograph (C) of an excavation area. The large dark blob in the upper
right corner of (B) and (C) is the shadow cast by the Helikite. |
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G. Verhoeven
Comparison between a visible record of
a crop mark (left) and its rendering by NUV wavelengths (right).
�
G. Verhoeven
Journal of Archaeological Science
Volume 37, Issue 4, April 2010, Pages 833-845.
See also
http://lbi.academia.edu/GeertVerhoeven/Papers
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PLOTS
The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) is a
community which develops and applies open-source tools to environmental
exploration and investigation. |
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Fanny and Anthony
Monteriggioni
� Fanny et Anthony |
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San Andreas Fault
at Wallace Creek |
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Flickr (Aerial
Archaeology)
Roman Furnace - Archaeological Excavations Directed by
Universit� di
Siena (2
3).
and Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit� Culturali
� Opaxir |
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Prairie Burning
�
J.S. and S.W.
Aber (2001) |
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Overview of Accidents and
Emergency Exercises.
�2008 Harald Prinzler |
lianag.co.uk
