We 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
COBISS.SI-ID: 38047237The contribution, translated also in French and published in a catalogue accompanying huge exhibition first in Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin, then in Museum Rietberg in Zurich, and later in 2015 in Museé de Quai Branly in Paris, tells that in New Guinea only few societies carved huge spirit-crocodiles. Actually, the Karawari-speaking people were the only ones to do so. If we look at the spirit-things as artifacts we can say that cosmology, and the landscape in which cosmology is embedded, holds the entire cultural substance of this art. We can also agree that their art is about relationships, not about things. However, the author argues that we can go even a step further and say that cosmology, social organization, and kinship, and temporalities and localities embodied in the artefacts are themselves the Karawari art. The author also participated at the opening of exhibition in Paris with an invited lecture entitled “Karawari Spirit-crocodiles as Being and Artefacts”.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 38353453Within the framework of the international project ArchaeoloLandscape Europe, which brought together more than 80 institutions in the field of research and application of new technologies of remote sensing and management of cultural heritage, an international exhibition was organized. As project members from Slovenia, we contributed selected topics, translated and adapted for placement in Slovenia. The exhibition was set up twice (in Spomeniškovarstveni center ZVKDS, and in Atrij ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana), accompanied by a cycle of four lectures by renowned Slovenian archaeologists and many guided tours. T. Veljanovski and Ž. Kokalj co-organized both exhibitions, and T. Veljanovski has provided several guided tours. As a part of the project, a scientific monograph co-edited by T. Veljanovski and entitled Recovering Lost Landscapes was also published, in which T. Veljanovski and Ž. Kokalj co-authored a chapter on the use of historical aerial photographs for producing reconstructions of past landscapes, and on the potential of producing image-based model of a demolished village (Breginj), as an example of image-based reconstruction from remote sensing data in light of the contribution to the conservation of the architectural and cultural heritage.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 39584045Nataša Gregorič Bon and Žiga Kokalj are editors of the Prostor, kraj, čas (Space, Place, Time) book series which publishes electronic as well as printed monographs. The series publishes shorter, thematically rounded studies on diverse aspects of exploration of space and time, that are based on geographical information systems and remote sensing, as well as their social and cultural constructs: how people of various periods and landscapes think about, live, feel, use, and change space and time.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
The monograph, for which the authors received Alfonso Caso Prize for research in archaeology in 2015 (awarded by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 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 research. 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
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