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Biography

Gianluca Cantoro holds a permanent position as Researcher at the Institute of Heritage Science - Italian National Research Council (Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale [ISPC]-CNR). Gianluca is landscape archaeologist and photointerpreter. His background is in Roman Provinces archaeology (BA and MA @ the University of Pisa, Italy) and aerial archaeology of mountainous landscapes (PhD on Crete @ the University of Foggia, Italy). He is an active member in international communities of remote sensing experts and he often organizes workshops and summerschools for young scholars.

Interest areas:
aerial archaeology; mountainous landscapes; ancient topography; photogrammetry; cultural heritage digital recording and reconstruction; documentation via aerial and marine remotely controlled devices;

Activities

Employment (4)

National Research Council: Rome, Rome, IT

2020-07-15 to present | Researcher (Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC))
Employment
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Gianluca Cantoro

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas: Heraklion, Crete, GR

2011-10-01 to 2020-10-31 | Post-Doctoral Researcher (Institute for Mediterranean Studies)
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Italia Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo: Roma, Lazio, IT

2016-09-26 to 2017-08-25 | Expert collaboration and consulting (Aerofototeca Nazionale - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione)
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Leiden University: Leiden, Leiden, NL

2013-02-01 to 2014-07-14 | Post-Doctoral Researcher (Department of Archaeology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Università degli Studi di Foggia: Foggia, Puglia, IT

2007-04-05 to 2010-07-20 | PhD (Archaeology)
Education
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Università degli Studi di Pisa: Pisa, Toscana, IT

1995-10-01 to 2006-03-03 | BA and MA in Landscape Archaeology (Archaeology)
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Works (39)

Archaeological prospection in ultra-shallow aquatic environments: the case of the prehistoric submerged site of Lambayanna, Greece

2021-01-01 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85113389328

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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR

AutoGR-Toolkit

2020-04-31 | Software
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Gianluca Cantoro

Advanced sensing and information technologies for timely artefact diagnosis

Cultural Heritage Resilience Against Climate Change and Natural Hazards
2019 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9788833392400
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Gianluca Cantoro

Handling Hundreds of Aerial Images without Ground References

Archeologia Aerea XI.2017
2019 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2035-7540
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Gianluca Cantoro

Resolving Dimensions: A Comparison Between ERT Imaging and 3D Modelling of the Barge Crowie, South Australia

Coastal Research Library
2019 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-85076751582

Contributors: Simyrdanis, K.; Bailey, M.; Moffat, I.; Roberts, A.; van Duivenvoorde, W.; Savvidis, A.; Cantoro, G.; Bennett, K.; Kowlessar, J.
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Gianluca Cantoro via Scopus - Elsevier
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Il potenziale informativo degli archivi di fotografia militare della Seconda Guerra Mondiale ai fini della protezione civile e dell’analisi del territorio Fotogrammetria, intelligenza artificiale e webGIS al servizio degli archivi fotografici

2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Elizabeth Jane Shepherd; Gianluca Cantoro; Fabio Remondino
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Gianluca Cantoro via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Opening a new frontier in the study of Neolithic settlement patterns of Eastern Thessaly, Greece

Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece
2018 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-85059195258

Contributors: Sarris, A.; Kalayci, T.; Simon, F.-X.; Donati, J.; García, C.C.; Manataki, M.; Cantoro, G.; Moffat, I.; Kalogiropoulou, E.; Karampatsou, G. et al.
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Gianluca Cantoro via Scopus - Elsevier

Visviki Magoula revisited: Comparing past excavations' data to recent geophysical research

Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece
2018 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-85059197913

Contributors: Alram-Stern, E.; Sarris, A.; Vouzaxakis, K.; Almatzi, K.; Arachoviti, P.; Rondiri, V.; Efstathiou, D.; Stamelou, E.; García, C.C.; Kalayci, T. et al.
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Gianluca Cantoro via Scopus - Elsevier

Ground and aerial digital documentation of cultural heritage: Providing tools for 3D exploitation of archaeological data

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
2017 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-85021764854

Contributors: Cantoro, G.
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Gianluca Cantoro via Scopus - Elsevier

Storm "Safeguarding Cultural Heritage Through Technical And Organisational Resources Management"

2017 | Other
Contributors: Apostolos Sarris; Lemonia Argyriou; Angelos Chliaoutakis; Nikos Papadopoulos; Gianluca Cantoro; Nikos S. Papadopoulos; Meropi Manataki; Athanasios Argyriou
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Gianluca Cantoro via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

Reading a difficult landscape from the air. A methodological case-study from a WWII airfield in South Italy

Journal of Cultural Heritage
2017-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Gianluca Cantoro; Jeremia Pelgrom; Tesse D. Stek
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Crossref
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GROUND AND AERIAL DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE: PROVIDING TOOLS FOR 3D EXPLOITATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA

2017-01-01 | Journal article
DOI:

20.500.14243/384414

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20.500.14243/384414

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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR

Shallow Off-Shore Archaeological Prospection with 3-D Electrical Resistivity Tomography: The Case of Olous (Modern Elounda), Greece

Remote Sensing
2016-10 | Journal article
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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A Satellite, Aerial and Low-Altitude Approach for Ancient Greek Cities

ISAP Newsletter
2015 | Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

Amalgamation of satellite remote sensing and geophysical prospection for the investigation of ancient cities: Two case studies from demetrias and Pherai at the region of Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece

8th Congress of the Balkan Geophysical Society, BGS 2015
2015 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-84956636226

Contributors: Sarris, A.; Donati, J.; Kalayci, T.; Simon, F.; Manataki, M.; Garcia, C.; Cantoro, G.
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Gianluca Cantoro via Scopus - Elsevier

AncientCity - A new frontier in ancient Greek Urbanization through Geoinformatics

8th Congress of the Balkan Geophysical Society, BGS 2015
2015 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-84956704644

Contributors: Papadopoulos, N.G.; Donati, J.; Cantoro, G.; Moffat, I.
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Gianluca Cantoro via Scopus - Elsevier

Cultural Variations of the Neolithic Landscape of Thessaly

Archaeological prospection 2015. 11th international conference on archaeological prospection
2015 | Conference paper
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Gianluca Cantoro

Opening a New Frontier in the Neolithic Settlement Patterns of Eastern Thessaly, Greece.

Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece
2015 | Conference paper
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Gianluca Cantoro

Satellite, Aerial and Low-Altitude approach for Ancient Greek Cities

ISAP Newsletter 42
2015 | Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

Where… goats dare

Archeologia Aerea IX.2015
2015 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2035-7540
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Gianluca Cantoro

Aerial Reconnaissance in Archaeology - from Archives to Digital Photogrammetry

2015-01-01 | Book chapter
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR

New approaches to the study of Village Sites in the territory of Venosa in the Classical and ellenistic periods

2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Marchi, Maria Luisa; Jeremia Pelgrom; Gianluca Cantoro; Anita Casarotto; Lucia Lecce; Arthur Hamel; Jesús García Sánchez; Tesse D.Stek
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Gianluca Cantoro via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

New approaches to the study of village sites in the territory of Venosa in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

Agri centuriati
2014 | Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

Speeding up Georeferencing with Subpixel Accuracy

CAA 2012 - Archaeology in the Digital Era, Southampton, 26-30 March 2012
2014 | Conference paper
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Gianluca Cantoro

Walking over Magoulas: Mapping Neolithic Tell Settlements in Thessaly (Greece) using Integrated Archaeo-geophysical Techniques.

2014 | Conference paper
Contributors: Carmen Cuenca García; Apostolos Sarris; Tuna Kalayci; François-Xavier Simon; Gianluca Cantoro; Jamieson Donati; Meropi Manataki; Konstantinos Vouzaxakis; Vasso Rondiri; Polyxeni Arachoviti et al.
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Gianluca Cantoro via BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

New Technologies for Capturing the Dynamics of Cultural Landscapes

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2013 | Conference paper
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Gianluca Cantoro
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Roman Colonial Landscapes: Ager Venusinus

Paestum
2013 | Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

A free set of tools for automated imagery rectification

International Society for Archaeological Prospection
2012 | Journal article
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AARGnews

2012 | Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

Georeferenziazione Accurata, Veloce e Gratuita

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grade
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Reinterpretazione delle mappe di Google: WebGIS dinamico elementare e formati aperti con ASP e XML

2012 | Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

Rawmaterials project: Archaeological webgis with googlemaps API

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
2007 | Conference paper
EID:

2-s2.0-85053640705

Contributors: Cantoro, G.
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Gianluca Cantoro via Scopus - Elsevier

I livelli epigravettiani della Grotta delle Settecannelle (Viterbo)

Rivista di scienze preistoriche
2006 | Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro
grade
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Rawmaterials Project Archaeological WEBGIS with GoogleMaps API

XXI International CIPA Symposium (01-06 October)
2005 | Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

Endangered heritage: monitoring natural actions by means of Aerial Archaeology

Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

Fast and automated image rectification with a small (free) software

AARGnews
Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

Fundamental Tools for Photo-Interpretation in Mountainous Rocky Areas: Photogrammetry and Ground-Truthing

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Gianluca Cantoro
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Magoula Visviki revisited: comparing past excavations' data to recent geophysical research.

Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

SECOND PRELIMINARY REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY AT MANTINEA

Journal article
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Gianluca Cantoro

Peer review (35 reviews for 11 publications/grants)

Review activity for Archaeological prospection. (1)
Review activity for Drones. (4)
Review activity for Geoarchaeology. (2)
Review activity for Geosciences. (4)
Review activity for Heritage. (1)
Review activity for ISPRS international journal of geo-information. (3)
Review activity for Journal of cultural heritage. (1)
Review activity for Remote sensing. (11)
Review activity for Studies in Digital Heritage. (6)
Review activity for Sustainability. (1)
Review activity for Urban science. (1)