The Institute
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology has ceased operations in April 2024, at the end of its fourteen-year term.
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro) was a research institute of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft. We were dedicated to the development of new techniques and methodological concepts for landscape archaeology and the digital preservation of cultural heritage.
Together with our Austrian, German and Norwegian partner organisations, we worked on a challenging interdisciplinary research programme. We combined remote sensing, geophysics, computer science, geomatics and archaeology to develop efficient and universally applicable approaches for the non-destructive detection, documentation, visualisation, analysis and interpretation of archaeological landscapes.
Even though the individual research topics are very specific, they all focused on integrated landscape archaeology as the main research objective. By defining pioneering research topics and goals, we thus aimed to make archaeological prospection a powerful, groundbreaking theoretical and methodological tool for archaeological research, rescue archaeology and cultural property protection.
