ArchaeoAstroInsight
Detects archaeological features in satellite and aerial imagery and computes their archaeoastronomical alignment by using AI algorithms.
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.