Systematic survey is a crucial component of the archaeological field endeavor. In low visibility areas, systematic subsurface testing is required, most often in the form of shovel test pits or "STPs". Decisions about the interval between STPs, and the size of such units, impact significantly both the effectiveness of survey for site location and the efficiency of such prospection efforts, and yet "cookie-cutter" survey strategies are often employed without a thorough examination of their costs and benefits. In this work, we present a simulation-based method (DIGSS, Determination of Intervals using Georeferenced Survey Simulation) by which archaeologists can simulate the effectiveness and efficiency of different survey strategies for both prospective and retrospective applications. Beyond permitting the design and implementation of survey strategies that both maximize the possibility of site detection in a given region and that husband precious resources (money and time), this method permits the generation of post hoc correction factors that make direct comparison of previous surveys possible. While DIGSS was designed with archaeological applications (artifacts and sites) in mind, it has potential ramifications in other fields of study where discrete spatial sampling is used as a means of determining the presence, absence, or abundance of discontinuous assemblages materials of interest in a survey region. As such, we can envision potential application in the fields of geology, ecology, and environmental/pollution monitoring.

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(DIGSS) 使用地理参考测量模拟确定间隔：用于地下测量的 R 包。

系统调查是考古领域工作的重要组成部分。在低能见度区域，需要进行系统的地下测试，通常采用铲式测试坑或“STP”的形式。关于 STP 之间的间隔以及此类单元的大小的决定，对站点位置调查的有效性和此类勘探工作的效率都有显着影响，但通常采用“千篇一律”的调查策略，而没有对其进行彻底检查。成本和收益。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种基于模拟的方法（DIGSS，使用地理参考调查模拟确定间隔），考古学家可以通过该方法模拟不同调查策略在前瞻性和回顾性应用中的有效性和效率。除了允许设计和实施调查策略，最大限度地提高给定区域的站点检测可能性并节省宝贵的资源（金钱和时间）之外，该方法还允许生成事后校正因子，从而可以直接比较以前的调查. 虽然 DIGSS 的设计考虑了考古应用（文物和遗址），但它在其他研究领域具有潜在的影响，在这些领域中，离散空间采样被用作确定感兴趣的不连续组合材料的存在、缺失或丰度的手段。调查区域。因此，我们可以设想在地质、生态和环境/污染监测领域的潜在应用。