REPORT FOR THE AFP grant 00-02-01-06, Faculty of Architecture, METU.

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RESULTS: General


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The application for a one year AFP grant covers:

1. Photographic and photogrammetric field studies during the summer of 2000;
2. Classification and archiving of information;
3. Addition of classified information to the data base as a prelude to the application of analytical techniques;
4. Post-fieldwork studies, including the imaging of recorded features and data processing;
5. Construction of virtual reality models and animations from the combination of photographic images and scaled drawings;
6. Analysis using the GIS environment;
7. Electronic publication of the results on the Kerkenes Project web page and as multimedia CD-Roms.

The remote sensing program, including satellite imagery, aerial photography (aeroplane, hot air balloon, tethered blimp, kite) together with photographic rectification and Global Positioning System (GPS) survey, is now complete. These particular survey methods enabled us to obtain a detailed surface model of the site that can be combined in various ways with other sets of data. The various methods of survey each provide digital sets of data that display different aspects of the site. These multiple data sets are not immediately compatible because they are each imaged in softwares that have been specifically designed for the method in question, and often for the particular brand of machine. Further complications have arisen from the fact that it was necessary, as the project evolved, to employ different projection or grid systems in order to utilise the potential from developing technologies. A final difficulty continues to be the unprecedented size of the data sets, both geophysical and GPS.

In November 2000, The Kerkenes Project was provided with a GIS package: ArcView by ESRI including Image Analyst by ERDAS. The research team, as it is gained knowledge of the software, has been able to solve most of the problems that have been mentioned and results have been obtained from the processing and interpretation of the sample data selected for the pilot study.

During the 2000 field season at Kerkenes, from July 3 to August 30, newly collected data was added to that already available. Three (Figs 3 - 5) techniques were used:
(i) GPS survey with sophisticated Trimble 4600LS;
(ii) Geophysical survey with a GEOSCAN FM36 gradiometer;
(iii) Clearance and excavation.


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