{"id":1150,"date":"2025-06-16T04:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T04:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/?page_id=1150"},"modified":"2025-06-16T04:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T04:38:35","slug":"using-gis-and-ai-for-large-scale-orientation-analysis-of-remote-heritage-sites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/tutorials\/using-gis-and-ai-for-large-scale-orientation-analysis-of-remote-heritage-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Using GIS and AI for large-scale orientation analysis of remote heritage sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1150\" class=\"elementor elementor-1150\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d83930c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d83930c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-451258a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"451258a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Marc Fr\u00eencu<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae83f44 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ae83f44\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><div>West University of Timisoara, Romania<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><b>Description<\/b>: Around the world, we notice remote heritage sites that cannot be investigated in person due to their location and size. Examples include stone structures in Africa or the Middle East. Some of these structures exhibit main axes that point in certain directions and by analysing their orientation (w.r.t. skyscape), we can gain insights into the customs of past cultures. In this tutorial, we present how QGIS can be used together with AI models and image processing to automate the large-scale analysis of such sites.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><em><strong>Short bio:<\/strong><\/em><\/div><ul><li><strong>Marc Frincu<\/strong> is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, West University of Timisoara Romania. He is an IEEE Senior Member and Secretary of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham\u00a0Trent University, UK.\u00a0 His research interests include big data analysis with applications in heritage and well-being. He also works on XR for digital reconstruction and rehabilitation of people with disabilities. He is currently national PI for the CHIST-ERA project AI4MultiGIS.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Fr\u00eencu West University of Timisoara, Romania\u00a0\u00a0Description: Around the world, we notice remote heritage sites that cannot be investigated in person due to their location and size. Examples include stone structures in Africa or the Middle East. Some of these structures exhibit main axes that point in certain directions and by analysing their orientation (w.r.t. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"parent":140,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150\/revisions\/1155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synasc.ro\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}