Aerial Photography and Archaeology 2003

100 years ago, on December 17th 1903 , Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first sustained, controlled flight in a powered aircraft. In December 2003 some 100 aerial archaeologists from many European countries met in Ghent to discuss different themes of aerial archaeological photography: History of aerial archaeology; Aerial photography, satellites and remote sensing; New discoveries and research in aerial photography. The papers of this conference are now available. More than 30 contributions concern research in Belgium, China, the Czech Republic, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Poland, Scotland, Siberia, Slovakia, Spain and Wales.  Bourgeois Jean & Meganck Marc (eds), /Aerial Photography and Archaeology 2003. A Century of Information,/ Academia Press, Gent, 2005, 412 pp. (Archaeological Reports Ghent University,

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