The paper explores environmental changes on the Albanian coastline (wider Vlora area) by analyzing yearly Landsat optical data for the period between 1984 and 2015. With the use of change vector analysis (CVA) technique and geographic object-based image analysis we compared both change detection approaches. The coastline and coastal change maps produced at 30-m resolution, applying both pixel- and object-based approaches, showed that CVA approach is a preferable technique when analyzing Landsat data for coastal change detection. Apart from identifying spatial changes through time, the objective of this study is to show that these landscape changes correspond with the population movements and migrations. This study argues that movements of both people and landscape strongly impact each other and form an intertwining and corresponding relationship.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 40709421A four day workshop organised by the Université François-Rabelais de Tours, CNRS, and the international ModeLTER institute brought together specialists in exploration and processing of lidar data, archaeologists, biologists, physicists, and forest management experts to present the latest methodological advances and discuss different ways of understanding and integrating the results of lidar surveys. The key themes were the links between human practices (pastoral, forestry etc.) and their microtopographic signatures; data interpretation and management on a regional or national level; advanced data processing; and automatic processing of lidar data. The Slovenian partners organised and led three workshop sessions.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 40065325The monograph, for which the authors received Alfonso Caso Prize for research in archaeology in 2015 (awarded by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología, Mexico), presents the results of a systematic archaeoastronomical study of orientations in the Lowland Maya architecture. Since the formerly available alignment data were deficient and of low precision, we accomplished field measurements of 271 buildings at 87 archaeological sites; both in fieldwork and in the analyses and interpretations of alignment data we employed more rigorous methodology than the one applied in previous studies. The analyses have shown that most of the important buildings were oriented to sunrises and sunsets on certain dates, whose concentrations and distribution reflect the use of observational calendars, which facilitated the scheduling of agricultural activities and related rituals. Also detected were two orientation groups referring to Venus and lunar extremes. The proposed interpretations concerning the use and significance of orientations are both novel and convincing, not only for being based on a large sample of reliable quantitative data, but also because they are supported by a wide variety of ethnographic, historical and iconographic evidence.
E.02 International awards
COBISS.SI-ID: 39569965We have implemented a system for mapping water bodies in Slovenia and its immediate neighborhood with Sentinel-1 radar satellites. Algorithms automatically detect the presence of new data, download and analyze them, write the results, and publish them on a web portal. New acquisitions are currently available every six days, but this time will be halved when the second Sentinel-1 is launched. The web mapping, application VodaKje.si ("Water where are you"), was conceived and implemented by the private company GeoCodis, who also manages the web portal. The data on water surfaces derived form Sentinel-1A are also being incorporated by the Slovenian Environment Agency into their VodePro app.
F.11 Development of a new service
COBISS.SI-ID: 40861741We have developed a fully automated processing chain for the processing of optical satellite data. It consists of modules for geometric corrections, radiometric corrections and to produce simple products: NDVI, changes in NDVI and change detection. The Slovenian Intellectual Property Office granted a patent for a part of the processing chain.
F.33 Slovenian patent
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