analysis

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

JPEG

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Bitmap (BMP)

Java

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

ESRI Explorer

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

History

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Data publishing and dissemination:

Web browser scripting

Tags:

GIS

geography

Geospatial computing

Geospatial technology

Strategy and project management:

Practice-led research:

Alternate tool(s):

ArcGIS Explorer, worldKit, GeoCommons

Data structuring and enhancement:

Licence:

Freeware

Platform:

GPS and total station surveys

lifecycleStage:

structuring

analysis

publishing

By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:41

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tool: ERDAS Imagine

Purpose:

ERDAS Imagine is a suite of geospatial authoring software. The suite contains a raster graphics editor and remote sensing application that performs advanced remote sensing analysis and spatial modelling to create new information. ERDAS IMAGINE can also visualize results in 2D, 3D, movies, and on cartographic quality map compositions.

Features:

• Image Analysis, Remote Sensing & GIS
• Parallel Batch Processing
• Spatial Modeling
• High Performance Mosaicking Engine in IMAGINE Advantage
• Expanded Change Detection Tools (with Zonal Change Detection)
• ERDAS ER Mapper Algorithms
• Converts over 190 Image Formats to all Major File Formats, including GeoTIFF, NITF, CADRG, JPEG, JPEG2000, ECW and MrSID
• Implements Comprehensive OGC Web Processing Service (WPS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Catalog Services for the Web (CS-W)

A&H use case 1 description:

The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used ERDAS Imagine to analyse 3D seismic datasets acquired on the United Kingdom continental shelf and explore Late Quaternary and Holocene geology over the area of the Southern North Sea.

Publisher:

Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)

Creator:

Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)

Software/programming languages used:

ERDAS Imagine

Data capture:

Remote sensing

Specifications:

Javascript

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

JPEG

Java

Ajax frameworks

J2EE

Erdas Macro Language (EML)

Communication and collaboration:

Video-based interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

ERDAS Imagine

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

Data analysis:

Data publishing and dissemination:

Tags:

GIS

Remote sensing

Geospatial technology

Raster image

multispectral images

Strategy and project management:

Human factors analysis

Practice-led research:

Alternate tool(s):

SPRING, Virtual Terrain Project (VTP),

Data structuring and enhancement:

Animation

Licence:

commercial

Platform:

GPS and total station surveys

lifecycleStage:

By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:22

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tool: ArcGIS

Purpose:

ArcGIS is a suite of software that comprises of Desktop GIS, Server GIS, Mobile GIS, and Online GIS. ArcGIS is a platform for building a complete geographic information system (GIS) that lets you easily create, edit, and analyse geographic knowledge on the desktop; publish data, maps, globes and models to a GIS server and/or share them online; and use them on the desktop, on the Web, or in the field.

Features:

• View and query maps
• Manipulate shapefiles and geodatabases
• Data manipulation, editing and analysis
• Mobile device enabled

A&H use case 1 description:

ArcGIS was used in the Mapping Medieval Chester project to integrate geographical and literary mappings of the medieval city using cartographic and textual sources and using these to understand more how urban landscapes in the Middle Ages were interpreted and navigated by local inhabitants.

A&H use case 2 description:

ArcGIS was used in the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project to investigate the relationship between people and their environment, from the Neolithic period to the present day on the island of Cyprus. ArcGIS was used to gather, analyse and map geomorphological data.

Publisher:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Creator:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Data capture:

Geophysical survey

Specifications:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

Microsoft's .NET Framework

Java

COM

Visual Basic

TCP/IP

Unified Modelling Language (UML)

Visual C++

Delphi

Data publishing and dissemination:

Disk publishing

Collaborative publishing

Audio-visual interaction (synchronous)

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (synchronous)

Software/programming languages used:

Discipline:

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Data structuring and enhancement:

Cataloguing and indexing

Graphical rendering

Alternate tool(s):

GRASS (Geographic Analysis Support System) GIS, ThinkGeo

Tags:

GIS

Geospatial computing

Geospatial technology

Strategy and project management:

Practice-led research:

Platform:

2d scanning and photography

lifecycleStage:

Licence:

Suite:

By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:08

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tool: ABBYY Fine Reader

Purpose:

A highly intelligent OCR (optical character recognition) software for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs.

Features:

• recognition of Digital Camera and Mobile Phone Camera Images
• comprehensive Language Support
• complete Integration with Popular Office Applications
• PDF conversion, archiving and security

A&H use case 1 description:

The “Digital Library of Core e-Resource on Ireland” project has used ABBYY Fine Reader to digitise collections of Irish journals, monographs, manuscripts and pamphlets.

Publisher:

ABBYY

Data capture:

Specifications:

Software/programming languages used:

ABBYY FineReader

Suite:

ABBYY

Practice-led research:

Tags:

Alternate tool(s):

OmniPage Professional

Licence:

lifecycleStage:

Platform:

By Valentina Asciutti at Fri, 26/03/2010 - 16:40

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tool: MantisBT

Purpose:

MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system written in the PHP scripting language.

The most common use of MantisBT is to track software defects. However, MantisBT is often configured by users to serve as a more generic issue tracking system and project management tool.

Features:

• event-driven-plug-in system
• works with MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and IBM DB2 databases
• RSS Feeds
• Customisable workflow
• Wiki integration
• Chat integration

A&H use case 1 description:

The “First World War Poetry Digital Archive” project has used MantisBT to track development and the use cases developed were used as reference points for successful development prior to user testing.

Creator:

Kenzaburo Ito and Victor Boctor

Publisher:

Futureware Pty Ltd

Strategy and project management:

Accessibility analysis

General project management

System quality assurance and code testing

Data analysis:

Topic Detection and Tracking

lifecycleStage:

Specifications:

Tags:

PHP

scripting language

MySQL

Alternate tool(s):

JIRA, Trac, Bugzilla

Platform:

GNU General Public License

Licence:

Software/programming languages used:

Mantis

MantisBT

By Valentina Asciutti at Fri, 26/03/2010 - 14:20

tool: RivEx

Purpose:

RivEx is a river network tool designed to run under ESRI ArcMap 9.1. It allows for quality control and analysis of the river network and creation of node layers.

Features:

• Process connected river centre lines
• Generate new node layers for the nodes of the network
• Attribute your network including stream order
• Convert your network to a measured network
• Re-orientate (flip) network polylines
• Quality controlled snapping of sites to the river network
• Export river network data to KML (Google Earth) format

A&H use case 1 description:

RivEx was used in conjunction with ESRI ArcMap on the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project to map the river network that was part of the prehistoric landscape stretching from the English Channel to the Norwegian coast line.

Publisher:

RivEx

Creator:

Duncan Hornby

Data publishing and dissemination:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

Specifications:

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Data analysis:

lifecycleStage:

Discipline:

Data capture:

Use of existing digital data

Data structuring and enhancement:

Tags:

Strategy and project management:

Human factors analysis

Alternate tool(s):

MotherPlanet

Practice-led research:

2d graphic design

3d graphic design

Texture design and mapping

Virtual world modelling

Platform:

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft Windows XP

Software/programming languages used:

Rivex

Licence:

commercial

By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 19/03/2010 - 15:15

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tool: Mercury Amira

Purpose:

Mercury Amira is a multifaceted tool that allows for integration, manipulation, and visualisation of large sets of data. Automatic and interactive segmentation tools support processing of 3D image data.

Features:

• One platform for visualizing, analyzing and presenting
• Very large data sets are easily accessible with specific readers
• C++ coding wizard for technical extension and customization

A&H use case 1 description:

Amira was used on the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project to visualise and analyse the vast amounts of data that were collected.

Publisher:

Visage Imaging GmbH

Creator:

Mercury Software Systems

Data publishing and dissemination:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Specifications:

C++

Communication and collaboration:

Data analysis:

Content analysis

Image segmentation

Visualisation

Spatial data analysis

lifecycleStage:

Discipline:

Data capture:

2d scanning and photography

3d scanning

Geophysical survey

GPS and total station surveys

Data structuring and enhancement:

Virtual world modelling

Tags:

Strategy and project management:

Alternate tool(s):

Avizo

Practice-led research:

2d graphic design

3d graphic design

Image manipulation

Platform:

Audio-visual interaction (synchronous)

Software/programming languages used:

Mercury Amira

Licence:

commercial

By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 19/03/2010 - 12:21

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tool: Exceed

Purpose:

Exceed is a PC X server system which allows for graphical user interface (GUI) interactions with networked computers. Exceed provides data exchange among applications on different platforms including UNIX, Linux, VMS, X Window Based System and IBM mainframes.

Features:

• Allows users to connect Microsoft Windows desktops to a wide variety of X Window-enabled servers and access X applications.

A&H use case 1 description:

Exceed was used the North Sea Palaeolandscapes project to link up different datasets that were available on different operating platforms.

Publisher:

Open Text

Creator:

Hummingbird Ltd.

Communication and collaboration: