Dr Arianna Traviglia

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Archaeology - ACL Archaeological Computing Laboratory Room 310 Madsen Building F09 University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61-2-9351-3142 Fax: +61-2-9351-3644 Email

I am presently the holder of an ARC PostDoc Fellowship at the University of Sydney (Dept. of Archaeology / Archaeological Computing Laboratory). In my current research I am using the site detection methods through satellite images (developed during my previous research in NE Italy) to the World Heritage site of Angkor in Cambodia and I am expanding these methods by applying them to different sensors. I am also supervising a number of projects for the University of Venice, where I hold the position of Lecturer of Computer Applications in Archaeology, involving both remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies.

My research interests lie mainly in landscape archaeology (with a focus on Roman and Medieval periods), modern and ancient cartography, remote sensing (satellite, aerial) and in the application of digital technologies to archaeological cultural heritage management: integration of databases and spatial information through the use of GIS and their application to archaeological data; methodologies for the recording, analysis and multimedia delivery of historical and archaeological data; digital photography.

Selected conference papers

• 2008: “Vicus Costanziaci between land and sea: Remote Sensing applications for the detection of the lost islands in the Venetian Lagoon” (with D. Cottica, L. Fozzati), in Proceedings of the1st International EARSeL Workshop, CNR, Rome, September 30-October 4, 2008, Advances in Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management, Lasaponara R., Masini N. (eds.), pp. 37-40. Aracne Rome
• 2008: “The combinatorial explosion: defining procedures to reduce data redundancy and to validate the results of processed hyperspectral images”, in Proceedings of the1st International EARSeL Workshop, CNR, Rome, September 30-October 4, 2008, Advances in Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management, Lasaponara R., Masini N. (eds.), pp. 85-89. Aracne Rome
• 2008: “New researches about the Venetian Lagoon in Roman period”, in Missioni Archeologiche e progetti di ricerca e scavo dell’Universià Ca’ Foscari – Venezia, VI Giornata giornata di studio, Venezia 12 maggio 2008, S. Gelichi (ed.), pp. 151-157. Poligrafo, Venezia,
• 2007 :“ MIVIS Hyperspectral Sensors for the Detection and GIS Supported Interpretation of Subsoil Archaeological Sites ”. In J.T. Clark, E. Hagemeister (eds). Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage. CAA 2006. Proceedings of the 34th Conference, Fargo, United States, April 2006, pp. 287-299. Budapest, Archaeolingua
• 2006 :“Archaeological usability of Hyperspectral images: successes and failures of image processing techniques”. In From Space to Place. Proceedings of the 2 nd International conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, Rome, Dec. 4-7 2006, pp. 123-130. Oxford, Archaeopress

Selected journal articles

• 2008: "Identification of archaeological traces on the landscape by means of airborne MIVIS sensor: the example of Roman Aquileia", Archeologia Aerea 3.
• 2005 : “Integration of MIVIS Hyperspectral remotely sensed data and Geographical Information Systems to study ancient landscape: the Aquileia case study”, Agri Centuriati. An International Journal of Landscape Archaeology, 2, pp. 139-170.