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Advanced Sensing Technologies in Archaeology and Heritage

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2023) | Viewed by 4977

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Ioanna Kakoulli

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Interests: archaeological materials from the macro to the micro and to the nano length scale; forensic analytical imaging and conservation; materials science; Hellenistic and Roman painting; technology and synthesis of pigments; materials reverse engineering processing and diagenesis
Dr. Jean-Paul Guillet

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IMS Laboratory, University of Bordeaux, 3340 Talence, France
Interests: terahertz; millimeter waves; near field; imaging
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Dr. Santiago Sanchez-Cortés

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Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Interests: plasmonic nanoparticles; surface enhanced Raman scattering; optical spectroscopy
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Advancements in technology with the development of inexpensive high-resolution cameras, drones, robotic sensors, lensless microscopy, computationally efficient smartphones, plasmonic nanostructures, and plasmonic-enhanced photodetectors for focal plane arrays combined with AI and machine learning have revolutionized the way materials are analyzed, accessed, and interpreted.

These sensing technologies offer a new generation of high-resolution, high-speed, and high-sensitivity analyzers, addressing research gaps and barriers needed to respond to challenges faced by material culture and provide information for improved diagnostics and cultural heritage evaluations.

Aiming to bridge novel sensing technologies with cultural heritage applications, we are pleased to invite you to contribute to the state of the art of field-deployable or laboratory/large-scale facility sensing technologies for cultural heritage applications.

This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for researchers across disciplinary fields that drive the state of the art in scale-crossing sensing technologies with (potential) applications in cultural heritage conservation, archaeological materials research, and authentication in art and archaeology.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

  • Photonic sensing for cultural heritage applications;
  • Remote sensing in archaeology;
  • Sensing devices for documenting and monitoring underwater archaeological heritage;
  • Diffraction-limited resolution systems for material culture applications;
  • Artificial intelligence for cultural heritage;
  • Smart portable systems for diagnostics and monitoring in archaeology and cultural heritage;
  • THz, HSI, SERS,INSTRUMENT DESIGN, STEM/TEM.

Prof. Dr. Ioanna Kakoulli
Dr. Jean-Paul Guillet
Dr. Santiago Sanchez-Cortés
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The Degradation of Daguerreotypes and the Relationship with Their Multi-Material Structure: A Multimodal Investigation
by Diego Quintero Balbas, Barbara Cattaneo, Andrea Cagnini, Paolo Belluzzo, Sandra Rossi, Raffaella Fontana and Jana Striova
Sensors 2023, 23(9), 4341; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23094341 - 27 Apr 2023
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Preserving and analytically examining daguerreotypes is particularly challenging because of their multi-material and multi-component structure. Various sensors have been exploited to examine mainly the image plates of the daguerreotypes even though the degradation goes beyond this component. Micro-analyses have been the preferred method [...] Read more.
Preserving and analytically examining daguerreotypes is particularly challenging because of their multi-material and multi-component structure. Various sensors have been exploited to examine mainly the image plates of the daguerreotypes even though the degradation goes beyond this component. Micro-analyses have been the preferred method due to the nanoscale structure of the image particles. In this work, we propose comprehensive multi-modal non-invasive sensing to investigate the corrosion products present in nine daguerreotypes from the Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia (FAF, Florence, Italy). The methodology proposed includes chemical and morphological analyses: portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF), Raman microspectroscopy (μ-Raman), and micro-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in reflection mode (μ-rFTIR) for the chemical identification. For the first time, optical coherence tomography (OCT) was deployed to record the cross-sectional and morphological data of the relevant corrosion formations on daguerreotypes in a contactless way. The results allowed the characterization, in a non-invasive mode at a microscopic level, of a wide range of degradation products produced by the interaction of the different elements present in the structure of the daguerreotypes. The aim was to verify the performance of the proposed methodology and to link the chemical and physical complexity of the entire structure, disclosed by the state-of-art sensors, to the daguerreotype degradation. The results draw attention to the need to monitor not only the image condition but the whole object as a partially closed system in constant interaction internally and with the environment. Full article
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