Louise Rayne
@louiserayne.bsky.social
Newcastle University Academic Track (NUACT) Fellow. Archaeologist and remote sensing specialist. Working on ways to use Earth observation to model past sustainable landscapes (agriculture, water management).
Our Digitising Desertification summer school continues this week at Newcastle University. We've had a fascinating introduction to declassified cold war satellite imagery from PhD student Jen Makovics.
July 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Our Digitising Desertification summer school continues this week at Newcastle University. We've had a fascinating introduction to declassified cold war satellite imagery from PhD student Jen Makovics.
Our Detecting Desertification summer school at Newcastle University continues with some training in writing machine learning algorithms using satellite images in Google Earth Engine
July 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Our Detecting Desertification summer school at Newcastle University continues with some training in writing machine learning algorithms using satellite images in Google Earth Engine
Day 2 of our Detecting Desertification sumer school at @newcastleuni.bsky.social Students practised using Google Earth Pro for digiting archaeological sites of all types, including these ancient gold mines alongside the Nile in Sudan. Satellite Image from Google Earth Pro Airbus 2025.
July 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Day 2 of our Detecting Desertification sumer school at @newcastleuni.bsky.social Students practised using Google Earth Pro for digiting archaeological sites of all types, including these ancient gold mines alongside the Nile in Sudan. Satellite Image from Google Earth Pro Airbus 2025.
Day 1 of our Digitising Desertification summer school (Archaeology, Newcastle uni). PhD student Hope Irvine shows Newcastle students results of our new machine learning algorithms for detecting change to archaeology.
July 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Day 1 of our Digitising Desertification summer school (Archaeology, Newcastle uni). PhD student Hope Irvine shows Newcastle students results of our new machine learning algorithms for detecting change to archaeology.
the calm before the storm...
July 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
the calm before the storm...
A new paper with Google Earth Engine code on remote sensing of vanishing archaeology in Iraq from me, my students and our collaborators www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14...
May 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A new paper with Google Earth Engine code on remote sensing of vanishing archaeology in Iraq from me, my students and our collaborators www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14...
Cullercoats the other day
March 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Cullercoats the other day
In Riyadh attending #cop16, presenting my research on using remote sensing to detect desertification in heritage oases and hosting a table in the UK pavillion
December 9, 2024 at 5:58 PM
In Riyadh attending #cop16, presenting my research on using remote sensing to detect desertification in heritage oases and hosting a table in the UK pavillion
Tynemouth this morning
April 7, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Tynemouth this morning
A webinar I am giving tomorrow with Dr Jaafar Jotheri on past and traditional water management in Iraq
giap.icac.cat/seminars/
giap.icac.cat/seminars/
March 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM
A webinar I am giving tomorrow with Dr Jaafar Jotheri on past and traditional water management in Iraq
giap.icac.cat/seminars/
giap.icac.cat/seminars/
