CAMEL is the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. We engage in research and mapping of landscapes in West Asia, Central Asia, and North Africa.
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A3RD Workshop Series on Deep Learning in Archaeology
As part of its commitment to pioneering innovation through collaboration, CAMEL hosted an intensive series of workshops and hackathons from winter through spring 2024 to support the goals of the AI-Assisted Archaeological Remains Detection (A3RD) project. Designed to...
Camel collections now accessible on the BTAA geoportal
Since 2005 the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) provides public access to information about the diverse research and object-based collections by means of their integrated database (idb). As part of this renowned collection, Camel Lab has published...
Digitization of declassified U-2 imagery
Since this September CAMEL lab has embarked on a digitization project of declassified U-2 spy plane imagery. The project intends to access and record the historical aerial photographies, which were taken during spy plane reconnaissance missions from late 1950s to...