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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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...
Camel collections now accessible on the BTAA geoportal
Camel collaborates with the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) to integrate the lab’s wealth of data with the alliance’s geoportal in order to make the maps and satellite imagery widely accessible. The geoportal allows the exploration of our data by way of a webgis application, querying maps and imagery together with the more than 50 000 geo-referenced datasets from the Big10 partner institutions.