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ArchaeoAstroInsight QGIS 4 compatibility
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Not yet — the latest version declares max QGIS version 3.99.0, so it is not offered to QGIS 4 users.
Detects archaeological features in satellite and aerial imagery and computes their archaeoastronomical alignment by using AI algorithms.
About
ArchaeoAstroInsight is a QGIS plugin for the archaeoastronomical analysis of ground-level archaeological features. It detects features in satellite or aerial rasters using a YOLO model, estimates each feature's orientation (azimuth) with a ResNet classifier, derives the local horizon from either the HeyWhatsThat online service or user-provided SRTM elevation data, and computes the astronomical declination of each alignment. It also generates azimuth and declination curvigrams (kernel-density plots with significance thresholds) and writes all results to a single CSV for further analysis. It requires external Python packages (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Ultralytics and others) that are not bundled with the plugin; see the installation instructions in the repository README.
| Author | Andrei Ancuta, Helga Hochbauer, Maitane Urrutia, Marc Frincu |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 293 |
| Latest version | 0.2 |
| Last updated | 2026-07-14 (93 days ago) |
| Min QGIS | 3.0.0 |
| Max QGIS | 3.99.0 |
| QGIS 4 ready | No |
| Maintenance | Active |
| Categories | Remote sensing, AI & machine learning, Spatial analysis |
| Tags | python, archaeoastronomy |
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