All,
I am pleased to share the webpage for a collaborative archaeological study at the Quincy Smelter site in Ripley, Michigan. The site is part of the Keweenaw National Historical Park and the Quincy Mining Company Historic Landmark District.
Michigan Tech’s Historical Environments Spatial Analytics Lab has published a front page and two public WebGIS pages where people can review historic maps and remote sensing imagery. Saturday morning, we will be using these WebGIS interfaces while doing more remote sensing survey and ground truth the thermal imagery in the current GIS (which we collected in 2017).
https://www.historicalgis.com/quincy.html <https://www.historicalgis.com/quincy.html>
For about 20 years, Michigan Tech students and faculty have volunteered with community organizations, county government officials, and now the Keweeenaw National Historic park. Most recently, the site has become a case study in remote sensing, digital modeling, visualization, and historical GIS research. Working with various scientists from the Michigan Tech Research Institute and various departments on our campus, we’ve begun to scan the site with different remote sensing and imaging technologies and platforms. The resulting database will be useful for planning and management, ongoing research, environmental remediation, interpretation and educational programming, and culture-building/heritage activities.
So far, we’ve done photogrammetry and thermal imaging. These have been combined into a publicly-available WebGIS along with historic maps, blueprints, and drawings of the smelter site. Tomorrow morning, we will be doing Ground Penetrating Radar surveys, more photogrammetry, and perhaps some LiDAR survey.
Over time, we will add more data layers to the WebGIS, so that it may become a useful tool for classrooms and for those with general interest. The landing page will also grow with more information about past and future archaeological work, publications, and so on.
If I have time during the day, I will tweet about the project using the hashtag #Quincysmelter.
Best,
Tim Scarlett
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