Exploring complexity in the archaeological landscapes of monsoon Asia using lidar and deep learning

Project Information

archaeoscape.ai

Grant agreement ID: 866454

DOI

10.3030/866454

Project closed

EC signature date 7 May 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 518 587,00

EU contribution

€ 1 518 587,00

Coordinated by

ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT
France

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Participation in the Open Research Data Pilot

Publications

Book chapters (5)

From the Jungle to the Lab: Using Remote-Sensing and Deep Learning to Map Archaeological Features in Lab-based Settings

Author(s): Sarah Klassen, Tommaso Pappagallo and Damian Evans
Published in: Digital Archaeology: Promises and Impasses, 2023
Publisher: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 51

Trajectories of Urbanism in the Angkorian World

Author(s): Damian Evans; Roland Fletcher; Sarah Klassen; Christophe Pottier; Pelle Wijker
Published in: The Angkorian World, 2023, Page(s) 173-194, ISBN 9780815355953
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781351128940-13

Perspectives on the 'Collapse' of Angkor and the Khmer Empire

Author(s): Damian Evans; Martin Polkinghorne; Roland Fletcher; David Brotherson; Tegan Hall; Sarah Klassen; Pelle Wijker
Published in: The Angkorian World, 2023, Page(s) 541-553, ISBN 9780815355953
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781351128940-37

Prologue: An Introduction to the Angkorian World

Author(s): Mitch Hendrickson; Mriam T. Stark; Damian Evans; Roland Fletcher
Published in: The Angkorian World, 2023, Page(s) 1-14, ISBN 9780815355953
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781351128940-1

La cartographie archéologique du monde khmer ancien : défis et opportunités

Author(s): Damian Evans
Published in: L’École française d’Extrême-Orient : 120 ans de recherche en Asie, 2023
Publisher: Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Water, power, and the state in early Southeast Asia: Problems of evidence, scale, and continuity

Author(s): Adam P. Wijker
Published in: Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie, Issue 176, 2025, ISSN 0242-7702
Publisher: La Maison des sciences de l’homme

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Diachronic modeling of the population within the medieval Greater Angkor Region settlement complex

Author(s): Sarah Klassen; Sarah Klassen; Sarah Klassen; Alison Carter; Damian Evans; Scott G. Ortman; Miriam T. Stark; Alyssa A. Loyless; Martin Polkinghorne; Piphal Heng; Michael Hill; Pelle Wijker; Jonathan Niles-Weed; Gary P. Marriner; Christophe Pottier; Roland Fletcher
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 7(19), 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf8441

Bayesian regression versus machine learning for rapid age estimation of archaeological features identified with lidar at Angkor

Author(s): W. Christopher Carleton, Sarah Klassen, Jonathan Niles-Weed, Damian Evans, Patrick Roberts, Huw S. Groucutt
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44875-0

Creating an Earth Archive

Author(s): Christopher Fisher , Stephen Leisz , Damian Evans , Diana H Wall , Kathleen Galvin , Melinda Laituri , Geoffrey Henebry , James Zeidler , Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz , Shrideep Pallickara , Sangmi Pallickara , Thomas Garrison , Francisco Estrada-Belli , Eduardo Neves , Kathryn Reese-Taylor , Rachel Opitz , Thomas Lovejoy , William Sarni , Rodrigo Solinis , Grace Ellis , Milena Carvalho , Cheryl Whi
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Issue 119 (11), 2022, Page(s) e2115485119, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115485119

Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia

Author(s): Sarah Klassen; Scott G. Ortman; José Lobo; Damian Evans
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2021, ISSN 1072-5369
Publisher: Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-021-09535-5

Space technology: A powerful tool for safeguarding world heritage

Author(s): Lei Luo; Jie Liu; Francesca Cigna; Damian Evans; Mario Hernandez; Deodato Tapete; Peter Shadie; Athos Agapiou; Abdelaziz Elfadaly; Min Chen; Lanwei Zhu; Bihong Fu; Ruixia Yang; Shahina Tariq; Mohamed Ouessar; Rosa Lasaponara; Xinyuan Wang; Huadong Guo
Published in: The Innovation, Issue 4 (3), 2023, Page(s) 100420, ISSN 2666-6758
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100420

Evaluating global vegetation products for application in heterogeneous forest-savanna landscapes

Author(s): Elise Pletcher, Sarah Smith-Tripp, Damian Evans, Naomi B. Schwartz
Published in: International Journal of Remote Sensing, Issue 45, 2024, Page(s) 492-507, ISSN 0143-1161
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2023.2299278

Beyond the Greater Angkor Region: Automatic large-scale mapping of Angkorian-period reservoirs in satellite imagery using deep learning

Author(s): Jürgen Landauer, Sarah Klassen, Adam P. Wijker, Josine van der Kroon, Alexis Jaszkowski, Wouter Baernd Verschoof-van der Vaart
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 20, 2025, Page(s) e0320452, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0320452

Conference proceedings (2)

Adapting Vision Transformers to Ultra-High Resolution Semantic Segmentation with Relay Tokens

Author(s): Yohann Perron, Vladyslav Sydorov, Christophe Pottier, Loic Landrieu
Published in: International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2025, 2025
Publisher: International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2025

Archaeoscape: Bringing Aerial Laser Scanning Archaeology to the Deep Learning Era

Author(s): Yohann Perron, Vladyslav Sydorov, Adam P. Wijker, Damian Evans, Christophe Pottier, Loic Landrieu
Published in: The Thirty-eight Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2024
Publisher: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024)

Monographic books (1)

Angkor and the Khmer civilization

Author(s): Michael D. Coe, Damian Evans.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Thames & Hudson