Comments on: More spacial analysis… http://www.stoa.org/archives/1066 Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere. Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ryan http://www.stoa.org/archives/1066/comment-page-1#comment-134936 Ryan Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:38:50 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=1066#comment-134936 Some low-hanging fruit I can see would be for someone to mash it up with Pleiades (http://pleiades.stoa.org/), which is already providing modern coordinates and other metadata for ancient place names. Beyond the “gee-whiz” factor, this could actually be quite useful for performing statistical analysis of the modern topographical features of certain classes of ancient locations (e.g. ancient bridges) which may have been selected for or had an impact upon their environment. One can then imagine reversing the analysis to look at the SRTM data to classify other regions which have those features.

Similar to the SRTM data, the USGS also makes some of its Lidar data freely available (mostly US datasets): http://lidar.cr.usgs.gov/

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