Conference Background

October 2004 - 1st International Conference on Remote Sensing Archaeology was organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and hosted by the Joint Laboratory of Remote Sensing Archaeology (JLRSA). In that context an international team of experts was created in order to promote multidisciplinary activities of remote sensing archaeology in the entire world.

December 2006 - 2nd conference has been organized in Rome at the National Research Council with particular attention to the study and the conservation of archaeological and ancient landscapes through integrated technologies and virtual reality. In association with the general conference, a Remote Sensing International School for archaeologists, site managers and environmental experts was organized in Tuscany, with the collaboration of international keynote scholars (Campana S., Forte M 2006, From Space To Place, Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference Remote Sensing Archaeology, Rome (December 4-7 2006), Archaeopress BAR INTERNATIONAL SERIES, Oxford, pp.579).

August 2009 - 3rd conference moved to India at the Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli with an emphasis on remote sensing and digital technologies in documenting, analyzing and interpreting archaeological and anthropological contexts (Campana S., Forte M., Liuzza C., 2010, Space, Time, Place, Proceeding of the IIIrd International Conference Remote Sensing Archaeology, Tirruchirapalli, India (August 17-22, 8, 2009), Archaeopress BAR INTERNATIONAL SERIES, Oxford).

October 2012 - 4th International Conference on Remote Sensing Archaeology (ICRAS4) is organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) UNESCO, and co‐hosted by the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST). The conference will be held in Beijing.

December 2012 - “From Space to Place” Joint Meeting of the 2012 PNC Annual Conference, University of California Berkeley – USA in collaboration with ECAI.

October 2013 - “From Space to Place” Joint Meeting of the 2013 Digital Heritage Conference, CNRS Marseille (France).

May-June 2014 - Envisioning the Digital Landscape, International Summer School in Landscape Archaeology, Remote Sensing and 3D technologies organized by Duke University and the University of Siena, Siena-Vulci, Italy.