COURSE UNIT TITLE

: IMAGE PROCESSING AND ITS APPLICATION IN ARCHAEOGEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GPE 5022 IMAGE PROCESSING AND ITS APPLICATION IN ARCHAEOGEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS ELECTIVE 2 2 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR MAHMUT GÖKTUĞ DRAHOR

Offered to

Geophysical Engineering
GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING

Course Objective

The course aims to provide an introduction to parts of methodological aspects of image processing technique and to parts of applications of the method to geophysical data collected from archaeological site together with a theoretical and practical understanding of the main techniques. In addition, the other goal of this course is to explain the types of archaeological settlements and their physical properties to get a good image interpretation. This course investigates the general image processing techniques and its applications on geophysical data collected from archaeological sites; investigates the general knowledge about the archaeological settlements and some image concepts, theoretical and basic principles of image processing, preparing the geophysical data for image processing and applications of the image processing in archaeogeophysical investigations. The course discusses the relationship between archaeological settlements and geophysical data. Particularly, according to archaeogeophysical concept, combined geophysical data and its relations with archaeological structures will be defined. In addition, the image processing applications in the data obtained from archaeological sites in the world and Turkey will be discussed in a comparative form.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describe the general information about archaeological settlements and architecture in Anatolia
2   Describe the aerial photography and processing and interpretation of aerial photos
3   Identify the instruments used in large-scale geophysical surveys and their contribution to image processing
4   Describe the general information about data sets and statistical analyses
5   Identify the image processing techniques
6   Describe the enhancement of geophysical images
7   Identify the enhancement of geophysical data images obtained from archaeological sites

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 General information about archaeological settlements and architecture in Anatolia
3 Soil and climate effects in data acquisition and aerial photo studies
4 Aerial photo and the contribution to geophysical evaluation
5 Instruments used in large-scale geophysical surveys and their contribution to image processing
6 Data acquisition strategies in large-scale investigations, coordinate processing and the preparation of data before image processing
7 Mid-term exam
8 Data properties in image processing
9 Image processing techniques I
10 Image processing techniques II
11 Enhancement of geophysical images
12 Image processing techniques and the results in archaeological prospection studies carried out in Turkey and all over the world I
13 Image processing techniques and the results in archaeological prospection studies carried out in Turkey and all over the world II
14 Presentation of coursework

Recomended or Required Reading

Aitken, M. J., Physics and Archaeology, 291p., Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1974.
Prospezioni Archeologiche kursları ders notları, 1966-1974.
Rapp, G. and Gifford, J., Archaeological Geology, Yale University Press, England, 1985.
Scollar, I., et. al., Archaeological Prospecting and Remote Sensing, 674p.,Cambridge
University Press, England, 1990.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation + Application + Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

One mid-term exam shall be made, 30 % of the mid-term exam, 20 % of the average of the homeworks and 50 % of the final exam would be the semester mark.
MID-TERM (%30): LO1, LO2, LO3
HOMEWORK (%20): LO4, LO5, LO6, LO7
FINAL (%50): LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5, LO6, LO7

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Active participation to the lecture.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

goktug.drahor@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 10:30-12:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Preparing presentations 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 8 8
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 173

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.1234
LO.223
LO.34555
LO.44424
LO.5223
LO.633
LO.7333

CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

Copyright 2015 DEÜ. BİD

HOME / ABOUT US / DEGREE PROGRAMMES / GENERAL INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS