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TRANSIT: a GIS toolbox for estimating the duration of ancient sail-powered navigation

Alberti, Gianmarco·2018·Cartography and Geographic Information Science
DOI 10.1080/15230406.2017.1403376
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Cost-surface analysis in Geographic Information System (GIS) environment has been less frequently used in the study of ancient sail navigation than in other studies of the human past. Navigation cost-surface analysis entails the use of GIS tools that are versatile but not very easy to grasp and to put to work. This article describes an ArcGIS toolbox built to facilitate cost-surface analysis of ancient sail navigation. It estimates the navigation time from a start location, considering parameters relevant for the generation of an accumulated anisotropic cost-surface, automating the complex workflow required to meaningfully pre- and post-process the data. Acknowledging the limitations inherent to the tool, and to the modeling of a complex matter such as sail navigation, the toolbox is first described and then used in a worked example. Historically recorded voyages in the Mediterranean during classical antiquity are compared to estimated durations generated by the toolbox. In spite of structural and expected limitations, the results indicate that the proposed toolbox may produce reasonable estimates. These should be thought of as values gravitating around, not matching, likely past durations. The estimated values may prove useful as an indication of the order of magnitude of past voyages’ duration, and as frame of reference in measuring ancient maritime space through time.

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Authors
Alberti, G.
Affiliations
Department of Classics and Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
ORCID
Alberti, Gianmarco
Venue
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2017-11-21
Volume
45
Issue
6
Pages
510-528
ISSN
  • 1523-0406
  • 1545-0465
DOI
10.1080/15230406.2017.1403376
Cited by
22
References
12
Language
en

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