Design and realization on the Object-oriented Remote Sensing Archaeological Information System

With the development of science technology and archaeological research, the traditional methods for archaeological data collection and processing have become inadequate. As the advanced tools for a wide range of spatial data gathering, management and analysis, RS and GIS technologies bring the powerful support for the development of Archaeological Science. Remote Sensing Archaeological Information System (RSAIS) is built on the foundation of RS and GIS techniques. Under the Microsoft Windows environment, the Object-oriented Remote Sensing Archaeological Information System (ORSAIS) is designed and developed by using VB and MapObjects components combined with the SQL Server 2000 Database. The Object-oriented Remote Sensing Archaeological Information System (ORSAIS) can effectively integrate various information resources of remote sensing archaeology, achieving the high-efficient management of these mass data. Thus, from the limited data mining, more useful information can be found to provide data support for cultural relics protection, making the archaeological data management and analysis more intuitive, convenient and faster. Finally, the Object-oriented Remote Sensing Archaeological Information System (ORSAIS) is applied to the Chaohu Lake Basin in Anhui Province, China. The application result shows that the function of remote sensing archaeological analysis is the main feature of this system; the Object-oriented Remote Sensing Archaeological Information System (ORSAIS) provides a common structure frame for the spatial database design of regional archaeological sites, and is helpful to promote the thorough application of geographic information technologies to the archaeology studies and heritage resources management.