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Kite Aerial Photography (KAP)

Archaeological and other uses of kites

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Castro de Viladonga an Iron Age hillfort in Lugo (Galicia, Spain)



Kite aerial photograph. Canon A570IS, home-made rig, Sutton FF16 kite. 

© Vicente Piorno

 

Kite Aerial Photos of Scotland

 

West Lothian Archaeology Group

Rosie and John West Lothian

www.kiteaerialphotography.org.uk

James Gentles (1 2) Lothian

James Gentles © 2003

Jim Knowles West Lothian

© Jim Knowles

 

Simon Harbord Aberdeenshire

© Simon Harbord

 

(1) Orkney

© Craig Taylor

Robert Insall Strathblane

© Robert Insall

Elaine & Grant Golding  (Bill Fernie Caithness) 

© Elaine & Grant Golding

Hamish Fenton Oxfordshire

© 2009 Hamish Fenton

njhlianag.co.uk

Pullyhour, Caithness

© Nigel Healey  

Kenny Muir Dumfries and Galloway

© Kenny Muir

Jeff Worrall Isle of Bute (former KAPer)

© Jeff Worrall

Patrick and Marilyn Derbyshire

© Patrick and Marilyn

Michael Smith Angus

 © Michael Smith

Kieran Baxter

© Kieran Baxter

Ben Gourley  see below

 

 

John Wombell Strathpeffer, Ross-shire

Demonstrating KAP to members of two Young Archaeologists Clubs © John Wombell.

Scott Haefner  USA

© Scott Haefner

any others? e-mail Rosie Pierre Lesage (1 2 3) Tahiti

© Pierre Lesage

© Allison Ranford Collection

Extreme KAPing on Spitsbergen

Susie and Dougal  from Scotland

© Allison Ranford Collection

© Allison Ranford Collection

 

flickr (other platforms): Scotland from the air and James Bone's aerial archaeology of Scotland

The National Collection of Aerial Photography

 

KAPers and PAPers With an Interest in the Archaeology of England, Ireland or Wales
Hamish Fenton (2) Oxfordshire

© 2009 Hamish Fenton

Thorsten Kahlert  (2) Sligo, Ireland

© Thorsten Kahlert

David Mitchell South Devon

© David Mitchell

 Peter Neville (Mines) Cheshire Martin Roe (2) Yorkshire

© Martin Roe

 Bill Blake (2) Cambridge

© Bill Blake

  e-mail Rosie to be posted  

 

KAPers and PAPers outside the UK

Charles C. Benton USA

UC Berkeley Campus.

© Charles C. Benton

Katsutaka Murooka Japan Japan KAP Association Masami Takakuwa Japan
  Chen  
flickr KAP flickr KAP Showcase (slide show)  Gordon Petrie's KAP links

© Charles C. Benton

PAPers on flickr

 

Archaeological and Other Uses of Kites

Incorporating much of the original list kindly provided to us by Peter Bults (KAPshop)

See also Wikipedia - Kites

Archaeologists - do you have a  kite aerial photo of an archaeological site or historic building?

e-mail Rosie to add your kite aerial photo

 

Sir Henry Wellcome

© Wellcome Library, London.

Kite aerial photograph taken with the 'kite camera', at Segadi, Jabel Moya, Sudan. 1913

Published with the permission of the Wellcome Library. Other photos are available, including one of the actual camera suspended from the kite (Image No L0021185).

 
Detection of Archaeological Residues using remote sensing Techniques

The DART Project

  CC-BY Archaeobobalist

Kite aerial photo: Monthly survey in progress on the clay site in Cambridgeshire.
 

 

Sonnenobservatorium Goseck.

© Ralf Beutnagel

 
Mark Houshold, Archaeology Department, Durham University.

The Bell, College Valley, Northumberland NT 90188 28829.  © Mark Houshold

Taken with an Olympus Tough 12 from a Sutton FF16 Kite (AuRiCo Brookes Frame).

 
Ben Gourley, Department of Archaeology, University of York.

Westray, Orkney  © Ben Gourley

Burdale, Yorkshire.   © Ben Gourley

Stymphalos, Corinthia.  

© Ben Gourley

 
François Levalet

Wood fish trap "La Maillard". 

© François Levalet

 

An Archaeologist Uses Kite Aerial Photography

Detail from the montage of Pillistay in the Camaná valley of the far south coast of Peru, which gives an idea of the high resolution possible. This quality of stone-by-stone recording of a large archaeological site would be
difficult and expensive to achieve without KAP.

© 2006, Bruce Owen

 
Stefan Biermeier & Axel Kowalski

Early Medieval Graves.

© Singularch

 
Miron Bogacki KAP   Ptolemais
 
John Schoenfelder

Stóra Seyla, Iceland.

© John Schoenfelder

 
Du Ciel: Thomas Sagory

Shibam, Yemen.

© Thomas Sagory

Oxyrhynchos - El-Bahnasa, Egypt.

© Thomas Sagory

 

Bill Isenberger: Digital Mapping

 

KAP at Al Baleed Archaeological Park in Salalah, Oman.

© Bill Isenberger

 
See also 3D Kite Aerial Photography
 

Mark Willis  Kite Aerial Photogrammetry

Madera Quemada KAP.

© Mark Willis

 

Christian Credner  KAP and Archaeology

KAP GeoArt and Achaeology in Gesotz in the Eifel.

©  Christian Credner

 
Archéo-volant
 

Jochen Reinhard

Tulul adh-Dhahab.

© Jochen Reinhard

 
Normandy WWII
 
Emmanuel

www.photo-cerf-volant.fr

© Emmanuel

 
La Photographie Sous Cerf-Volant
Kite Aerial Photography in Poland
 

Eyeflight

see also www.flickr.com/eyeflight.

© Eyeflight

 
Flickr (Forts from a kite's view)
Autumn Colors of Estonian Peat Bogs
KAP in Denmark
 

Nathan Craig

Three image KAP panorama of the shell midden at Choque Ispana, El Paraiso, Huacho, Peru.

Image assembled with Microsoft ICE. 

© Nathan Craig

 
KAP of Easter Island Archaeological Sites
Remote sensing techniques to study ahu (monumental ceremonial platforms) on the island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
 
Eric Kieboom

© Eric Kieboom

 
The Campanile Movie image-based modeling and rendering techniques (1997)    See also here
 
Exploitation of Small Format KAP for Geospatial Data Acquisition
 

 

Infra-red and ultra-violet KAP

See also Photographic Techniques

St. Ninian's Chapel, Bute. Inverted, near infra-red KAP.

© West Lothian Archaeology Group  (images in print)

Composite near infra-red KAP shot of Rubha Aird a' Mhuile Kelping Bothies, Uist.

© Jim Knowles  West Lothian Archaeology Group

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Geert Verhoeven

Comparison between a visible frame (A), unprocessed RAW UV image (B) and enhanced UV photograph (C) of an excavation area. The large dark blob in the upper right corner of (B) and (C) is the shadow cast by the Helikite.

© G. Verhoeven

Comparison between a visible record of a crop mark (left) and its rendering by NUV wavelengths (right). 

© G. Verhoeven          Journal of Archaeological Science Volume 37, Issue 4, April 2010, Pages 833-845.


See also (1) (2)
 
PLOTS

The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) is a community which develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation.

Ross Natural History Reservation: Six decades of changing land cover and management documented by aerial photography (pdf)
Kite Photography along the Altyn Tagh Fault (ATF)
Professional Applications Kite Aerial Photography

Unmanned Small-Format Aerial Photography from Kites for Acquiring.... (pdf)

Cholame earthquake geology along the San Andreas fault (pop-up)
 
Fanny and Anthony

Monteriggioni

© Fanny et Anthony

 
San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek
Crop Scouting
Development of Techniques for Quantification of Cattail Coverage of Wetland Pools at Cheyenne Bottoms Using Kite Aerial Photography (2)
Geological Applications of Kite Aerial Photography
 

Flickr (Aerial Archaeology)

Roman Furnace - Archaeological Excavations Directed by Università di Siena (2 3).

 and Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali 

© Opaxir

 
Small Format Aerial Photography: Goemmer Butte, Colorado

Hambukol/Letti Basin: Daily life in a medieval Nubian town and cultural ecology of the surrounding area

High-Flying Science, with Strings Attached - research with kites
Kansas NASA EPSCoR Rural Resources Cluster
Forest Cover at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, 1996-2001
High resolution aerial and field mapping of thermal features in Ragged Hills, Yellowstone National Park (pdf)

The use of kites to investigate boundary layer meteorology

Kites in Meteorology
Weather kite over the side of the Scotia, 1902-04
Weather Kites

Near Aerial Photography 

North Kharga Oasis Survey Project
High-resolution spatial analysis of mountain landscapes using a low-altitude remote sensing approach
L'utilisation scientifique (Historical)
Emporia and Lake Kahola, Lyon and Chase Counties
Intelligent Kite Aerial Photography Platform
 
Prairie Burning

© J.S. and S.W. Aber (2001)

 
Southwind Country Club, Garden City, Kansas (evaluation of turf )

KAP:  Agricultural Applications

Gathering atmospheric dynamics data using KITES
Atmospheric Research Using Kites: Here We Go Again! (pdf)
A low level wind measurement technique for wind turbine generator siting (2)
Antenna-lifting kites
Marine Environment
Fishing with Kites
Kite Training of Falcons
Rapid imagery through kite aerial photography in a complex humanitarian emergency
 

Overview of Accidents and Emergency Exercises.

©2008 Harald Prinzler

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