THE USE OF GIS TECHNOLOGY IN CULTURAL HERITAGE
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The Abu Dhabi geospatial portal (geoportal.abudhabi.ae) includes the cultural heritage layer, consisting of archaeological sites, historic buildings and fossil sites. There are several GIS applications in cultural heritage including condition mapping and heritage conservation. Current situation: a) implementation level: local and national, b) GIS technology included within the national information infrastructure, c) GIS applications publicly available, d) main fields of application: heritage management, archaeology, condition mapping, conservation.
 
 
 

References

Günay, S., 2011. From Data to Information: Methodology for a GIS Based Historic Building Conservation Project, Proceedings of the XXIII International CIPA Symposium, 12-16 September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, www.cipaheritagedocumentation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/G%C3%BCnay-From-data-to-information-methodology-for-a-GIS-based-historic-building-conservation-project.pdf

Muhammad, S., 2013. Documentation and Monitoring of Built Heritage in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XL-5/W2, 437-442, doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W2-437-2013

Rayne, L., Bradbury, J., Mattingly, D., Philip, G., Bewley, R., Wilson, A., 2017. From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa. Geosciences, 7(4), 100, https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences7040100

Sheldrick, N., Zerbini, A., 2017. A Heritage Inventory for Documenting Endangered Archaeology in the Middle east and north Africa, ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., IV-2/W2, 237-241, doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W2-237-2017

Tapete, D., Cigna, F., 2019. Detection of Archaeological Looting from Space: Methods, Achievements and Challenges. Remote Sensing, 11(20), 2389, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11202389

 
     
     
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