Advanced Technologies for Maritime and Underwater Archaeology—2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Geological Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2025 | Viewed by 3222
Image courtesy of Fabio Bruno
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Interests: artificial intelligence; blockchain; deep learning; satellite systems; robot vision; cognitive robotics; sensor fusion; data fusion; mobile robotics; wireless networks; robotics; security; Internet of Things
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Interests: 3D recording; underwater technologies; virtual reality; augmented reality
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Interests: computer vision; underwater technologies; 3D recording; AR/VR technologies
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Interests: cultural heritage; characterization and diagnostics of stone building materials and their decay processes; experimentation of innovative protective products for materials; archaeometry; underwater archaeology
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Interests: cultural heritage; the characterization of stone building materials and their decay; the experimentation of innovative protective products; the archeometria study of chronologically different ceramic remains in subaerial and underwater environments
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Interests: marine geology; environmental oceanography; archaeological oceanography; marine remote sensing
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Interests: marine robotics (underwater and surface); autonomous systems; guidance, control and navigation; automatic control; nonlinear systems; identification
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Underwater cultural heritage (UCH) is a crucial asset for the knowledge of humankind’s history and traditions. It is tangible evidence of past human life that has to be protected to ensure its accessibility to present and future generations.
The documentation, preservation, and dissemination of UCH is an open challenge that is strongly interdisciplinary because it involves collaboration among various experts from different sectors, such as archaeology, geology, biology, marine science, engineering, robotics, computer science, and numerous other disciplines.
This Special Issue intends to collect original and high-quality research articles and technical notes devoted to the knowledge of underwater materials and promote innovative methodologies, applications, and emerging technological solutions on the subject of materials that lie underwater.
Submissions are welcome that contribute to providing a multidisciplinary forum for cutting-edge scientific and technological issues in materials science, underwater archaeology, archaeometry, cultural heritage, alteration and aging, climate impact, case studies, and other related fields involving the large and varied community of experts from around the globe working in the underwater cultural heritage field.
Contributions are invited on the following topics:
- Monitoring systems provide awareness of both the artefact conservation status and the surrounding environment.
- AI-based decision support system (DSS) that helps to collect data from the aerial and marine environment.
- Data process by means of AI techniques to infer subjacent relations among the parameters registered and to perform a comparative data analysis able to define which environmental aspects have a deeper impact on the preservation of the UCH.
- Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to perform and support the monitoring and maintenance activities that will be based on innovative modular and configurable architectures.
- Systems management and protocols for the maintenance and enhancement of UCHs.
- Underwater conservation and restoration strategies.
- Methodologies and digital tools for underwater and aerial archaeology.
- Sensors and innovative monitoring for the aerial and marine environment.
- Green Conservation strategies applied to Cultural Heritage.
- Sustainability and Cultural Heritage: New perspectives.
Dr. Javier Prieto
Prof. Dr. Fabio Bruno
Dr. Antonio Lagudi
Dr. Michela Ricca
Prof. Dr. Mauro Francesco La Russa
Prof. Dr. George Papatheodorou
Prof. Dr. Nikola Mišković
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- underwater cultural heritage
- virtual and augmented reality
- marine robotics
- artificial intelligence
- underwater 3D imaging
- conservation
- diagnostics
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