AARGnews 24

Title:

AARGnews 24

Series:

AARGnews

Volume:

Publication Type:

Journal

Editor:

Rog Palmer

Publisher:

Aerial Archaeology Research Group

Year of Publication:

2002

Source:

BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

Relations:

URI:	http://aarg.univie.ac.at/

Created Date:

21 Aug 2007

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Article Title	Author / Editor	Page Start/End	Abstract
A bird's eye view of the Welsh uplands	Toby Driver	8	Note on a report on the website of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) on the Uplands Initiative, a programme of archaeological survey on the Welsh upland heritage.
The Vienna experience	Matthew Oakey	9 - 10	Report on the 2001 AARG annual conference, held in Vienna, with descriptions of some of the papers.
Sub-metre resolution satellite imagery	Martin J F Fowler	11 - 13	Short article on the 0.5 metre resolution images produced by the QuickBird satellite, and the level of detail of archaeological features provided by them.
The map maker's ``Tower of Babel''	I Scollar	14 - 25	Article on the wide range of different mapping systems and grids in use in different countries and regions, and at different times within countries (including the United Kingdom and Ireland).
Recording industrial buildings from the air --; the case of the Brynmawr Rubber Factory	Toby Driver	26 - 32	Article on the aerial photographic record made of the Dunlop Semtex Factory Complex at Brynmawr shortly before its demolition in 2000. The record included monochrome and colour stereoscopic oblique images.
Thinking and doing aerial photography	Kenneth Brophy	33 - 39	The paper considers the role of subjectivity within aerial archaeology, looking at two areas of practice in aerial photography -- the process of flying and photographing, and the role of interpretation; and three sub-themes -- the metaphors used to describe the practice and practitioners of aerial photography; the random nature of aerial photography and the role of luck; and the experience in the air.
Printing photographs: a quest for acceptable quality	Otto Braasch Z Kobylinski Rog Palmer	46 - 51	The article discusses the variable quality of photographic and other images produced for publication, and the techniques involved in producing good quality photographic images for printing.