Austin Hill

Austin Hill

University of Chicago, the Oriental Institute; the University of Connecticut

Research Associate

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Published on Feb 14, 2022

An update... in 2022!

It has been several years since we posted the last note about fieldwork funded by this experiment.com project. We have recent news, so thought it was a good time to post one more follow up here. Fi...

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Published on May 31, 2016

Off once more!

We are all packed up and heading off for our second session. Here is a nice "before" picture with the intrepid Eastern Badia Archaeological Project crew. We will post more photos and videos when we...

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Published on May 28, 2016

Getting Ready for Round 2!

The last few weeks have been very busy, here in Amman, but we are now in the last few days of preparation for our second trip out to the badia. Although we had a successful first trip, and were abl...

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Published on May 06, 2016

First Post-Fieldwork Update!

Yorke and I just got back from the first of our two fieldwork trips for this project. We did have several problems, and will have more work to do in the second fieldwork session, but we made great ...

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Published on Apr 05, 2016

Thank You Everyone!

Our campaign has come in for a successful landing! Thank you so much to all of the 62(!!!) people who backed our campaign and shared our page over social media. We are extremely grateful.Yesterday ...

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Published on Apr 04, 2016

Our Final Push!

(Photo Credit: Morag Kersel)Dear Archaeology Drone backers,We wanted to thank you again for supporting our research using fixed wing UAVs to map the hundreds of undocumented structures in our regio...

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Published on Apr 02, 2016

3D Visualization

One of the coolest things about constructing maps from aerial photographs using photogrammetry is the interactive 3D model that is constructed as part of the process. However, sharing this 3D data ...

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Published on Mar 06, 2016

Cat vs. Drone

People often ask me how to start learning to fly quadcopters. On the one hand, the newest ready-to-fly drones, like the Phantom 3 and the 3DR Solo,...

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Published on Mar 27, 2016

Drone Recovery - Dance Remix

Drones can be difficult to operate in the field, especially in remote and harsh environments like that at Wadi Qattafi. Fixed wing drones are also harder to operate than the multi-rotor drones that...

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