Overview
GIS / HGIS Landscape reconstruction Geohistory AR / VR Maps
Digital Heritage for Smart Regions (Time Machine). Test-case: Herentals and the Kleine Nete
Funded by Provincie Antwerpen
How can we unlock the Wisdom of the Past to answer spatial challenges today? The Digital Revolution is producing massive amounts of digital and digitized historical and archaeological data, which can be located with different degrees of precision in the landscape. Once integrated in a Geographical Information System (GIS), these data can be turned into a digital ‘Time Machine’. In this project, funded by the Province of Antwerp, and framed in the scientific collaboration between the Province and the University of Antwerp, we test the potential of Time Machine technologies on the Herentals-Kleine Nete region, more specifically addressing the question of the historical land-use and water management of the river wetlands along the river Kleine Nete. If successful, the project will result in A) an integrated methodology for the use of digital and digitized data in landscape history and archaeology; B) new insights in the history and evolution of valuable river wetlands; and C) suggestions for the valorization of this knowledge in ecosystem management, tourism, agriculture and landscape development.
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- Antwerp Province