[GRASS-user] archaeologist GRASS users - was Thiessen Polygons

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On Feb 12, 2009, at 4:13 PM, <grass-user-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:54:07 -0500
From: "Lyle E. Browning" <lebrowning@att.net>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Thiessen Polygons
To: GRASS list user <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
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The messages from Kurt Spring and Jean Roc Morreale point to
archaeological work using GRASS. How many other archaeologists are
there on the list using GRASS. I'd be interested in hearing about
archaeological applications as I have just begun the learning curve
for my own archaeological work.

Thanks,

Lyle Browning

Lyle,

There are actually quite a few archaeologist GRASS users. At least 2 of us on the dev team are archaeologists (Benjamin Ducke and me). A number of students here at Arizona State use GRASS because I teach my spatial technologies course with it.

Michael
____________________
C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

Phone: 480-965-6262
Fax: 480-965-7671
www: <www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton>

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Hi Lyle,

see this presentation for some case studies:

ftp://88.208.250.116/ducke-frankfurt-foss-gis-arch.pdf

The Xtent model shown there might be what you are looking for
(essentially another way to get weighted Voronoi diagrams).
I am sure Michael Barton could point you to other cool stuff
that he and his students/colleagues have been doing with GRASS.

Maybe we should set up a "GRASS for Archaeology" user group and/or
web page some time. CAA 2009 might be a good pretext for that.

Cheers,

Ben

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On Feb 12, 2009, at 4:13 PM, <grass-user-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:54:07 -0500
From: "Lyle E. Browning" <lebrowning@att.net>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Thiessen Polygons
To: GRASS list user <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
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The messages from Kurt Spring and Jean Roc Morreale point to
archaeological work using GRASS. How many other archaeologists are
there on the list using GRASS. I'd be interested in hearing about
archaeological applications as I have just begun the learning curve
for my own archaeological work.

Thanks,

Lyle Browning

Lyle,

There are actually quite a few archaeologist GRASS users. At least 2
of us on the dev team are archaeologists (Benjamin Ducke and me). A
number of students here at Arizona State use GRASS because I teach my
spatial technologies course with it.

Michael
____________________
C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

Phone: 480-965-6262
Fax: 480-965-7671
www: <www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton>

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Hi Lyle,
In Spain there is some archaeologists using grass for a while [1]. AFAICT there are two active groups one at the CSIC-Extremadura (Enrique Cerrillo) [2] and other one here at the University of Valencia (Andrea Moreno, David Quixal [3], Trini Martinez and some others [4]). In other non-english speaker countries there are some as well, like Portugal [5] and a very active group in Italy (leaded by Bezzi [6]).
In Spanish
[1] http://tp.revistas.csic.es/index.php/tp/article/viewArticle/110
[2] http://dugi-doc.udg.edu//handle/10256/1138
[3] http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2860827
[4] http://www.sigte.udg.es/jornadassiglibre2007/comun/present/2.7.zip
In portuguese
[5] http://www.isegi.unl.pt/servicos/documentos/TSIG017.pdf
In English
[6] http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/workbooks/n3/articoli/mcmbmgcpcgc.pdf
__________________________________________________________
Dr. Agustín Diez Castillo
Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia
Universitat de València Phone: +34 963 98 38 93
Avda. Blasco Ibañez, 28 Fax: +34 963 98 38 87
València 46010
http://www.uv.es/sidgeipa
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El Feb 13, 2009, a las 9:08 AM, Benjamin Ducke escribió:

Hi Lyle,

see this presentation for some case studies:

ftp://88.208.250.116/ducke-frankfurt-foss-gis-arch.pdf

The Xtent model shown there might be what you are looking for
(essentially another way to get weighted Voronoi diagrams).
I am sure Michael Barton could point you to other cool stuff
that he and his students/colleagues have been doing with GRASS.

Maybe we should set up a "GRASS for Archaeology" user group and/or
web page some time. CAA 2009 might be a good pretext for that.

Cheers,

Ben

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From: "Michael Barton" <michael.barton@asu.edu>
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:40:10 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] archaeologist GRASS users - was Thiessen Polygons

On Feb 12, 2009, at 4:13 PM, <grass-user-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:54:07 -0500
From: "Lyle E. Browning" <lebrowning@att.net>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Thiessen Polygons
To: GRASS list user <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
Message-ID: <8BCAC263-0552-455B-B8E1-E1D16BDF6F45@att.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes

The messages from Kurt Spring and Jean Roc Morreale point to
archaeological work using GRASS. How many other archaeologists are
there on the list using GRASS. I'd be interested in hearing about
archaeological applications as I have just begun the learning curve
for my own archaeological work.

Thanks,

Lyle Browning

Lyle,

There are actually quite a few archaeologist GRASS users. At least 2
of us on the dev team are archaeologists (Benjamin Ducke and me). A
number of students here at Arizona State use GRASS because I teach my
spatial technologies course with it.

Michael
____________________
C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

Phone: 480-965-6262
Fax: 480-965-7671
www: <www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton>

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Benjamin Ducke a écrit :
> Hi Lyle,
>
> see this presentation for some case studies:
>
> ftp://88.208.250.116/ducke-frankfurt-foss-gis-arch.pdf
>
> The Xtent model shown there might be what you are looking for
> (essentially another way to get weighted Voronoi diagrams).
> I am sure Michael Barton could point you to other cool stuff
> that he and his students/colleagues have been doing with GRASS.
>
> Maybe we should set up a "GRASS for Archaeology" user group and/or
> web page some time. CAA 2009 might be a good pretext for that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben

Hi Benjamin, could you point me to some explanations of this xtent model and how to use it in grass ?

> > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:54:07 -0500
> > From: "Lyle E. Browning" <lebrowning@att.net>
> > The messages from Kurt Spring and Jean Roc Morreale point to
> > archaeological work using GRASS. How many other archaeologists are
> > there on the list using GRASS. I'd be interested in hearing about
> > archaeological applications as I have just begun the learning curve
> > for my own archaeological work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lyle Browning

In France, even if it has been teach in the mid'90s there is now only an handful of people using GRASS. The main sofwares used are MapInfo and Arcgis, with gvsig being the new frontend to the gov archeological register. GIS are used to study the repartition of the material and sites, the relation between sites and mainly the production of maps.

The volumetric's abilities of GRASS would often be a godsend but too few knows about it.