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The application of First World War aerial photography to archaeology: the Belgian images

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Birger Stichelbaut
Birger Stichelbaut*
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1Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium (Email: birger.stichelbaut@ugent.be)
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The First World War left its mark on the ground surface of Europe as perhaps no other human catastrophe before or since. The author applies modern digital mapping technology to the aerial photographs taken by the intrepid early pilots, and creates a landscape of military works that would not have been known in detail to either historians or generals at the time. The GIS inventory has great potential for historians of the war and is a vital instrument for the management of this increasingly important heritage.

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aerial photographyFirst World Warbattlefield archaeologyBelgium

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Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 307 , 1 March 2006 , pp. 161 - 172
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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