OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Archaeological Prospection is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A modified Mask region‐based convolutional neural network approach for the automated detection of archaeological sites on high‐resolution light detection and ranging‐derived digital elevation models i	35
Potential of deep learning segmentation for the extraction of archaeological features from historical map series	33
The aerial panopticon and the ethics of archaeological remote sensing in sacred cultural spaces	20
Ethical considerations for remote sensing and open data in relation to the endangered archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project	18
Exploration and reconstruction of a medieval harbour using hydroacoustics, 3‐D shallow seismic and underwater photogrammetry: A case study from Puck, southern Baltic Sea	17
Large‐scale geochemical survey by pXRF spectrometry of archaeological settlements and features: new perspectives on the method	15
Applying automated object detection in archaeological practice: A case study from the southern Netherlands	14
Nuna Nalluyuituq (The Land Remembers): Remembering landscapes and refining methodologies through community‐based remote sensing in the Yukon‐Kuskokwim Delta, Southwest Alaska	14
New developments in drone‐based automated surface survey: Towards a functional and effective survey system	13
Participatory mapping and UAV photogrammetry as complementary techniques for landscape archaeology studies: an example from north‐western Argentina	11
The use of LiDAR in reconstructing the pre‐World War II landscapes of abandoned mountain villages in southern Poland	11
Integration of 2D/3D ground penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography surveys as enhanced imaging of archaeological ruins: A case study in San El‐Hager (Tanis) site, northeastern Nile De	10
Magnetic surveys locate Late Bronze Age corrals	9
Integrated use of unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning to support archaeological analysis: The Acropolis of Selinunte case (Sicily, Italy)	9
Ethical challenges in the practice of remote sensing and geophysical archaeology	8
Microgravity method in archaeological prospection: methodical comments on selected case studies from crypt and tomb detection	8
Monumental funerary landscapes of Dhar Tagant (south‐eastern Mauritania): Towards ethical satellite remote sensing in the West African Sahel	8
Evaluation of the benefits for mapping faint archaeological features by using an ultra‐dense ground‐penetrating‐radar antenna array	7
Evaluating ground‐penetrating radar antenna performance for investigating Mississippian mound construction compared with data from solid‐earth cores and magnetometry	7
Seismic and non‐invasive geophysical surveys for the renovation project of Branciforte Palace in Palermo	7
High‐resolution airborne Light Detection and Ranging data, ethics and archaeology: Considerations from the northeastern United States	7
Investigate the layout and age of a large‐scale mausoleum in Hangzhou, China using combined geophysical technologies and archaeological documents	6
An integrated remote sensing approach to Métis archaeology in the Canadian Prairies	6
Detection of World War II field fortifications using ALS and archival aerial images – German OKH Stellung b1 trenches in the south of the Polish Carpathians	6
Middle Bronze Age cemeteries, ‘double barrows’ and mortuary houses in the Upper Dniester Basin, Western Ukraine: Geophysical prospection and archaeological verification	6

Geomorphological and non‐destructive GPR survey for the conservation of frescos in the rupestrian churches of Matera (Basilicata, southern Italy)	6
Ancient Hermione revealed: the contribution of high‐performance computing and digital methods to the analysis of a hidden cityscape	6
Marea/Northern Hawwariya in northern Egypt: Integrated results of non‐invasive and excavation works	6
Revisiting Fara: Comparison of merged prospection results of diverse magnetometers with the earliest excavations in ancient Šuruppak from 120 years ago	6
Not only the ‘Gold Train' – the ‘Underground Town' of Riese (Poland) – the ambiguity of interpretation ERT and GPR methods	5
Frequency domain electromagnetic induction: an efficient method for investigating Fort Ancient village dynamics	5
A multi‐temporal satellite‐based risk analysis of archaeological sites in Qazvin plain (Iran)	5
The pre‐Roman hilltop settlement of Monte Torretta di Pietragalla: preliminary results of the geophysical survey	5
Investigating ancient agricultural field systems in Sweden from airborne LIDAR data by using convolutional neural network	5
UAV magnetometer survey in low‐level flight for archaeology: Case study of a Second World War airfield at Ganacker (Lower Bavaria, Germany)	5
FDEM and ERT measurements for archaeological prospections at Nuraghe S'Urachi (West‐Central Sardinia)	5
It takes all kinds of trees to make a forest. Using historic maps and forestry data to inform airborne laser scanning based archaeological prospection in woodland	5
Capabilities and limitations of electrical resistivity tomography for mapping and surveying hillfort fortifications	4
Depopulation and devastation: using GIS for tracing changes in the archaeological landscape of Kharaib al‐Dasht, a Late Islamic fishing village (Kuwait)	4
Non‐destructive approach for studying medieval settlements destroyed by ploughing: combining aerial photography, geophysical and soil surveys	4
Ground penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography investigations in the southern sector of the Roman Forum: First results on the pre‐Augustan phases of the Basilica Julia	4
Saraswati River in northern India (Haryana) and its role in populating the Harappan civilization sites—A study based on remote sensing, sedimentology, and strata chronology	4
Rock magnetic study of grave infill as a key to understanding magnetic anomalies on burial ground	4
Ground penetrating radar surveys in the archaeological area of Augusta Bagiennorum: Comparisons between geophysical and archaeological campaigns	4
Revealing the paleolandscape features around the archaeological sites in the northern Nile Delta of Egypt using radar satellite imagery and GEE platform	4
The sediment at the end of the tunnel: Geophysical research to locate the Pleistocene entrance of Gruta da Companheira (Algarve, Southern Portugal)	4
Practical considerations for shallow submerged archaeological prospection with 3‐D electrical resistivity tomography	4
Virtual cultural landscapes: Geospatial visualizations of past environments	4
Integration of GPR and TLS for investigating the floor of the ‘Salone dei Cinquecento’ in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy	3
A methodology for the self‐training and self‐assessing of new GPR practitioners: Measuring diagnostic proficiency illustrated by a case study of a historic African‐American cemetery for unmarked grave	3
What over 100 drillings tell us: a new method for determining the Koenigsberger ratio of soils from magnetic mapping and susceptibility logging	3
Potential and limitations of LiDAR altimetry in archaeological survey. Copper Age and Bronze Age settlements in southern Iberia	3
Contributions of ground‐penetrating radar in research of some predynastic and dynastic archaeological sites at the eastern and western banks of the River Nile, Assiut, Egypt	3
The roles of macro‐ and micro‐scale geophysical investigations to guide and monitor excavations at a Middle Woodland site in northern Georgia, USA	3
Geophysical investigation, in a regional and local mode, at Thorikos Valley, Attica, Greece, trying to answer archaeological questions	3
Frequency Domain Electromagnetic mapping for delineating subsurface structures related to the historical port of Emporiae	3
Shedding light on the Sudanese Dark Ages: Geophysical research at Old Dongola, a city‐state of the Funj period (16th–19th centuries)	3
Combining geophysical prospection and core drilling: Reconstruction of a Late Bronze Age copper mine at Prigglitz‐Gasteil in the Eastern Alps (Austria)	3
Integrating electrical resistivity tomography and ground‐penetrating radar methods to map archaeological walls near northern Ishtar gate, ancient Babylon city, Iraq	3
Geophysical survey in archaeological context: A review from Cyprus	3
Ground‐penetrating radar analysis of the Drimolen early Pleistocene fossil‐bearing palaeocave, South Africa	3
Ground Penetrating Radar detection of unmarked historic graves at the Fairlawn Cemetery in Stillwater, Oklahoma	2
Comparison of geophysical prospecting and geochemical prospecting at the medieval and modern Cistercian Abbey of Carnoët (Finistère, France)	2
The contribution of non‐destructive geophysical surveys to archaeological research of early medieval hillforts in Bohemia: A case study of the Tismice hillfort area	2
Automated large‐scale mapping and analysis of relict charcoal hearths in Connecticut (USA) using a Deep Learning YOLOv4 framework	2
Joint interpretation of electrical and seismic data aimed at modelling the foundation soils of the Maredolce monumental complex in Palermo (Italy)	2
Integrated geophysical study in the cemetery of Marquis of Haihun	2
Automated methods for image detection of cultural heritage: Overviews and perspectives	2
Using geophysical survey as a tool for resolving issues of the structure of the built‐up area of the early medieval centre at Pohansko near Břeclav, Czech Republic	2
3D geometric survey of cultural heritage by UAV in inaccessible coastal or shallow aquatic environments	2
Comprehensive geophysical prospection of the Roman and late antique city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain)	2
An integrated geophysical and archaeological approach to the study of the Late Medieval castle in Żelechów in Mazovia, Poland	2
Revealing the first location of abandoned medieval town Toruń, Poland, with the use of integrated noninvasive research	2
The social logic of irrigation. Accessibility based approach towards evaluating the water management infrastructure of the archaeological site of Miran	1
A multiproxy approach to studying a large prehistoric enclosure in Ojców, Kraków Upland, Poland	1

On‐site non‐destructive determination of the remanent magnetization of archaeological finds using field magnetometers	1
Geo‐archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia	1
Geophysical survey at the early Christian complex of Son Peretó (Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain)	1
Integrated results of aerial image, ground magnetics and excavation for settlement assessment at Dadan site, Al‐’Ula area, Saudi Arabia	1
Delineating the Bonghwang earth castle and Royal Palace of Geumgwan Gaya Kingdom using multiple geophysical techniques	1
Magnetic prospection at Aistra (Álava) and Peña Amaya (Burgos): Towards a new diagnostic paradigm for early mediaeval Iberia	1
Archaeological prospection of a prehistoric lithic workshop site using ground penetrating radar with a high‐frequency antenna unit	1
Integration of shallow geophysics, archaeology and archival photographs to reveal the past buried at Ingleside Plantation, Piedmont North Carolina (USA)	1
An integrated spatial approach to archaeological prospection using GIS and pedestrian survey data at Tell Abu Shusha, Israel	1
Climate change associated hazards on cultural heritage in Egypt	1
Shallow and ploughed settlement sites in forested environment: Opportunities to multilevel prospection (an example of a prehistoric site in eastern Lithuania)	1
Integration of laser level survey, photogrammetry and GPR to examine the deterioration of Roman mosaics: A case study of Venus house, Volubilis, Morocco	1
Field systems and later prehistoric land use: New insights into land use detectability and palaeodemography in the Netherlands through LiDAR, automatic detection and traditional field data	1
Portable gamma ray spectrometry for archaeological prospection: A preliminary investigation at Silchester Roman Town	1
Prehistoric chamber tombs or geological pitfall? A multimethod case study from Ancient Aigeira with a focus on seismic full‐waveform inversion	1
A new radiolocation method for precise depth estimation and its application to the analysis of changes in groundwater levels in Colonia Clunia Sulpicia	1
Archaeological site identification from open access multispectral imagery: Cloud computing applications in Northern Kurdistan (Iraq)	1
Edge detection for the buried archaeological structures with the geophysical image processing method in the Alabanda Ancient Cistern in Turkey	1
UAV LiDAR in coastal environments: Archaeological case studies from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and Vega, Norway	1
Long‐term monitoring to inform the geophysical detection of archaeological ditch anomalies in different climatic conditions	1
Forensic geophysical survey to investigate illegal looting of a site of historical importance	1
A model of spatial location: New data for the Gor River megalithic landscape (Spain) from LiDAR technology and field survey	1
If the archaeological context is missing: the use of LiDAR prospection to uncover features at the medieval Christian position on Malvecino Hill (Alcalá de Henares, Spain)	1