Saturday 14 December 2013

Managing Fieldwork Data 2

In these autumn and winter months the EthWAL project is focused on managing the data collected during the summer fieldwork.
The locations of the recorded sites (both in the Vallée de Freissinières and Val Maudagna) have been linked to their attributes (dimension, preservation, etc.), and these data have been managed with two different GIS softwares: QGIS 1.8/GRASS 6.4 and ArchGIS 10. The interaction between the geographical position of sites and their carachteristics will enable to identify hidden patterns, that will shed new light on modern/current spatial strategies in the uplands. Interesting issues, for instance, are the process of abandonment of these sites, and the clustering/dispersion of sites in relation to their structural characteristics (dimension, shape, etc.).
The data collected during the topographic survey of three sites (pastoral huts) of Val Maudagna have been processed, with the fundamental collaboration of Federico Panighel. The second step will be the spatial analysis of artefacts scattered all over the internal surface of these sites. This analysis has just started, and it is carried out using R 3.0.2. The results will be useful to identify intra-site patterns suggesting activity areas and mobility within the huts (according to their function, dimension and forniture).




Two phases of the topographic survey in Val Maudagna (Cuneo province, Italy)

2 comments:

  1. ...do you mean that you are running the same analyses by means of two different software? I wonder whether the results are really the same....please confirm us that!
    ;)
    thanks
    ste

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  2. Actually no...I am running different analyses with Grass and ArcGIS. Anyhow, you wouldn't believe how different are the outputs of the same analysis from two different softwares! It seems weird, but depends on the algorithm! Sorry for disappointing you! :D Cheers

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