GIS and RS for Spatial Documentation, Analysis and Interpretation in Multi-Scale Archaeological Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The role of GIS and Remote Sensing has evolved from providing technical support to embodying foundational methodological presuppositions within archaeology's "spatial turn" and data-driven paradigms.

This special issue explicitly focuses on applying these spatial approaches to address archaeological problems across diverse scales and contexts. The term "space" encompasses objects and phenomena across multiple scales, ranging from macro-level perspectives—such as global, maritime, and regional—to medium-scale entities like landscapes, cities, and sites, and down to micro-scale elements, including the distribution of traces, artifacts, and ecofacts. It includes spatial dimensions across two-dimensional (2D), three-dimensional (3D), and temporal frameworks.

We invite contributions utilizing spatial information technologies for the documentation, analysis, interpretation, and narrative construction of archaeological spaces. This issue aims to advance spatial methodologies in archaeological inquiry by showcasing concrete applications of remote sensing and spatial data science. We particularly encourage submissions discussing innovative spatial data acquisition technologies (e.g. LiDAR, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and underwater photogrammetry), Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), spatial big data, spatial knowledge graph, immersive digital environments and interactive spatial visualization, and other emerging spatial information technologies.

Prof. Dr. Jie He
Prof. Dr. Fulong Chen
Dr. Massimiliano Pepe
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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