Mark Altaweel

Mark Altaweel is a Reader in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, having held previous appointments and joint appointments at the University of Chicago, University of Alaska, and Argonne National Laboratory. Mark has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

A Screenshot of the Yiyun Interactive Map for Ya’an Earthquake Disaster Relief (10 August 2014). Source: Elwood, Goodchild, & Sui, 2012.

GIS Data

GIS and Social Activism

November 7, 2016

Mark Altaweel

Groups promoting various causes are implementing geospatial approaches and GIS related technologies.

REACH uses GIS to map out need down to the household in Jamaica. From Westrope, 2013.

Spatial Analysis

How Spatial Modeling Can Help with Refugee Aid

November 4, 2016

Mark Altaweel

GIS is being used to address the spatial problem of allocating resources and constructing refugee camps.

Structure-from-Motion (SfM). Instead of a single stereo pair, the SfM technique requires multiple, overlapping photographs as input to feature extraction and 3-D reconstruction algorithms. From: Westoby et al., 2012.

GIS Data

Making 3D Models with Photogrammetry

November 2, 2016

Mark Altaweel

With the prevalence of smartphones and drones, photogrammetry is now widely present as an effective and cost-efficient method to easily recreate 3D models of large areas and specific objects or buildings.