eprintid: 546
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2010-04-14 13:24:08
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type: bookPart
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creators_name: Whitley, Thomas G.
creators_name: Burns, Gwendolyn
title: Conditional GIS surfaces and their potential for archaeological predictive modelling
ispublished: pub
subjects: 930
divisions: 209
cterms_swd: Archäologie
cterms_swd: Informatik
cterms_swd: Computerunterstütztes Verfahren
cterms_swd: Computervisualistik
cterms_swd: Interdisziplinäre Forschung
abstract: Conditional GIS surfaces are well known in archaeological applications. Perhaps the most familiar of these are visibility analyses and friction layers (the basis of cost distance evaluations). Archaeological studies however tend to limit the use of such surfaces to purely environmental variables with little explanatory or analytical power. Friction, for example, is usually constructed entirely from a generated slope surface, occasionally with the addition of some physical barriers (such as waterways or perhaps vegetation differences). There are as well, a multitude of potential “conditions” to place upon spatial parameters which include strongly cultural ideas about knowledge, perception, familiarity, territoriality, risk, and other kinds of cognitive behaviours. Here we explore the kinds of “conditions” which could provide a great deal of explanatory or analytical understanding to our GIS archaeological applications, to categorize them into a meaningful framework, and to provide examples from a recent predictive model of how such surfaces can be applied.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2008
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000546
portal_cluster_id: p-caa2007
portal_order: 0097
ppn_swb: 1400491037
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-5462
language: eng
bibsort: WHITLEYTHOCONDITIONA2008
full_text_status: public
series: Layers of Perception. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Berlin, 2.-6. April, 2007 (Koll. Vor- u. Frühgesch. 10)
place_of_pub: Bonn
pagerange: 292-298
editors_name: Posluschny, A.
editors_name: Lambers, K.
editors_name: Herzog, I.
faecher: FKA
faecher: FVFG
themen: T930
oa_type: green
citation:   Whitley, Thomas G. ; Burns, Gwendolyn  (2008) Conditional GIS surfaces and their potential for archaeological predictive modelling.       
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/546/1/09_02_whitley_conditional.pdf