The main results of the research project «Legal and organizational foundations of using the aerospace survey for the research and protection of archaeological heritage of Ukraine»

Abstract

The present article summarizes the main results of the research project «Legal and organizational foundations of using the aerospace survey for the research and protection of archaeological heritage», implemented within the grant of the NAS of Ukraine for research laboratories/groups of young scholars of the NAS of Ukraine to conduct research in priority areas of science and technology in 2020-2021. The paper briefly outlines the current state and prospects of the development of Ukrainian legislation on protection and research of archaeological heritage, as well as the results of practical monitoring work using aerospace survey, which provided: 1) fixing the state of preservation of the national objects of archeological heritage; 2) research of the erosion zones of the Dnieper reservoirs. The practical work allowed the author’s team to identify the benefits of using remote sensing survey to introduce comprehensive monitoring of archaeological heritage, as well as to identify problems in the organization and legal regulation of relations in the field of protection and research of archaeological heritage in Ukraine; and to elaborate proposals for their solution. The innovative nature of the research is that the author’s team managed to conceptualize an interdisciplinary approach to the organization of the use of remote sensing of the Earth for research and protection of archaeological heritage. The project combined archeology, space law, international and national cultural heritage law, substantive and procedural criminal, economic and administrative law, some technical issues of using modern equipment for aerospace monitoring. This approach allowed to develop a holistic theoretical basis for improving the legal regulation and organizational support of relations in the use of aerospace survey for research and protection of archaeological heritage of Ukraine.