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SUMMARY:Heritage Quest: An Archaeological Survey of the Veluwe based on Da
 ta Science and Citizen Science - Dr. Karsten Lambers (Leiden University)
DTSTART:20201030T131500Z
DTEND:20201030T140000Z
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CONTACT:Alette Blom
DESCRIPTION:The rich archaeological heritage of the Veluwe\, a large fores
 ted area in the central Netherlands\, has been investigated for decades th
 rough field survey and excavations of selected sites\, e.g. prehistoric bu
 rial mounds. A recently released LiDAR-derived elevation model of the enti
 re Netherlands offers the opportunity to study the archaeological landscap
 e of the Veluwe on a regional scale. However\, this requires new\, efficie
 nt and effective methods for the archaeological analysis of large remote s
 ensing datasets.\n\nSince 2017 we have been developing WODAN\, the first a
 utomated detector of multiple classes of archaeological objects in LiDAR d
 ata. This algorithm is based on Deep Learning\, which requires labeled inp
 ut data for training. In order to acquire such data and to compare the per
 formance of computational methods to those of human operators\, we also co
 nducted a Citizen Science project in which hundreds of volunteers mapped t
 he same classes of archaeological objects in LiDAR data in Zooniverse\, an
  online platform for Citizen Science projects.\n\nIn this talk I will pres
 ent the current state of the Heritage Quest project and discuss opportunit
 ies for a fruitful integration of Data Science and Citizen Science approac
 hes for the benefit of archaeological landscape studies.
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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