Deploying Technology to Rescue the Past

Future Tense
New America
Thursday, January 28, 2016
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
https://newamerica.cvent.com/events/deploying-technology-to-rescue-the-p...

As ISIS campaigns to eradicate non-Islamic cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria and developers throughout the world encroach on sites where antiquities are found, it seems as though the relics of our past have never been at greater risk of being lost to history.

Or are they? Technology like geospatial sensing, satellites, drones, 3D imaging, and the like can be deployed to restore what might otherwise be destroyed forever.

Participants:

Kirk Johnson
Sant Director, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Scott Branting
Assistant Professor of Archeology, University of Central Florida
Director for Geospatial Initiatives, American School for Oriental Research
Project Director, Heritage Mapping and Data Integration with the Cultural Heritage Initiatives

Salam Al Kuntar
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Faculty, Penn Cultural Heritage Center

Reception to follow

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