Research project: Geo-archaeology - New high-resolution 3D seismic imaging
The big science question: There is an urgent need to image buried objects in marine environments at very high spacial resolution. This is the case, for example, to locate and image archaeologically valuable shipwrecks, to discover landscapes from the earliest occupation of the NW European peninsula, or to provide forensic tools looking for buried bodies. Attempts to image buried artefacts at very high resolution in the marine environment previously met with limited success due to inappropriate equipment, inadequate data processing methods, and a lack of information on the acoustic properties of archaeological materials. Thus, the big question here is how modern geophysical techniques can be combined with archaeological approaches to open new fields of discovery and protect our heritage.