This project was an expansion of the CORONA project specifically for extending the site database to southern Syria. The expansion of this dataset coupled with complementary data were combined with the “Do-Not-Strike” list of heritage and culture sites developed through collaboration of the US Department of State, the Blue Shield, and other partners. This list, distributed in August 2013, includes around 200 of the best-known archaeological sites (i.e., those that were home to excavation projects or that are on the tourist itinerary), but critically also includes a quite comprehensive list of museums, libraries, historic buildings, and monuments that are not easily mapped via satellite imagery. Combining this existing list with the archaeological site database helps to produce the most comprehensive inventory of known cultural and heritage sites that is currently achievable for that region.

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Digital Preservation; Image Analysis; Spatial Archaeometry

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Digital Preservation

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Digital Preservation; 3D Reconstruction

During the first award period for Rohwer Reconstructed, a National Park Service-funded collaboration rooted at CAST. One of ten Japanese-American internment camps established during World War II, the Rohwer Relocation Center in rural Desha County, Arkansas opened on September 18, 1942. At the time of its closure on November 30, 1945, the camp had been home - at one time or another - to 11,926 Japanese-Americans forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast. Just as their three years of internment left an indelible mark on the landscape of their lives, so they altered the place called Rohwer, both figuratively and literally. Remnants and ruins of the camp still scatter the fields planted in cotton and soybeans, and the Memorial Cemetery, declared a National Historic Monument in 1992, is a somber reminder of the people who lived and worked here. Interpretive panels constructed at the site in 2013 tell the abridged history of the camp, but are by necessity too brief to articulate the immensity of the full narrative. The documents, maps, and visualizations presented here are fragments of that narrative, pieced together in a technological framework, in an effort to bring the story to life.

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3D Reconstruction; Digital Preservation

The expansion of this NEH-funded project focuses on building a more robust interface for georeferencing, as well as storage and distribution of the CORONA images. The study area increased to include Eastern China and those surrounding regions. CORONA image coverage is abundant in these areas and its value to archaeology and other fields has been well-demonstrated; however, other areas of the world are being explored as the project progresses. The large majority of the images we provide come from the KH4B satellites, the latest generation of CORONA missions in operation from September 1967 through May 1972.

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Digital Preservation; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Spatial Archaeometry, Image Analysis

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Technology Education; Spatial Archaeometry; Digital Preservation

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Spatial Archaeometry; 3D Reconstruction; Reality Capture; Network Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Technology Education; Digital Preservation; Image Analysis

The CI-TRAIN project is a partnership of institutions of higher education to transform the practice of information technology services for enabling scientific discovery. The CI-TRAIN project was founded by institutions in Arkansas and West Virginia in a partnership that builds on common research in nanoscience and geosciences and leverages complementary expertise.

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Spatial Archaeometry; 3D Reconstruction; Reality Capture; Network Analysis; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Technology Education; Digital Preservation; Image Analysis

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Digital Preservation; Spatial Archaeometry

CORONA images preserve a high-resolution picture of the world as it existed in the 1960s, they constitute a unique resource for researchers and scientists studying environmental change, agriculture, geomorphology, archaeology and other fields. This NEH-funded project focuses on the Middle East and surrounding regions, areas where CORONA coverage is abundant and where its value to archaeology and other fields has been well-demonstrated; however, other areas of the world are being explored as the project progresses. The large majority of the images we provide come from the KH4B satellites, the latest generation of CORONA missions in operation from September 1967 through May 1972.

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Digital Preservation; GIS, GNSS and Mapping; Spatial Archaeometry

The Hampson Museum Collection represents one of the world's most extraordinary collections of American Indian artistic expression as well as a major source of data on the lives and history of late pre-Columbian peoples of the Mississippi River Valley. The collections at the museum are the result of extensive excavations of the Nodena Site as well as excavations at other sites in the region by Dr James K. Hampson, as well as work by others including the University of Alabama and the University of Arkansas.

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Reality Capture; Digital Preservation; Image Analysis