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   <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Earth Sciences</journal-id>
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    <journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Earth Sciences</journal-title>
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     <trans-title>Russian Journal of Earth Sciences</trans-title>
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   <issn publication-format="online">1681-1208</issn>
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   <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">86745</article-id>
   <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2205/2025ES000971</article-id>
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     <subject>Спецвыпуск: &quot;Наука о данных, геоинформатика и системный анализ в изучении Земли&quot;</subject>
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     <subject>Special Issue: “Data Science, Geoinformatics and Systems Analysis in Geosciences”</subject>
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     <subject>Спецвыпуск: &quot;Наука о данных, геоинформатика и системный анализ в изучении Земли&quot;</subject>
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    <article-title xml:lang="en">Remote Research of Archaeological Sites of the Southern Trans-Urals Using Geophysics and Machine Learning</article-title>
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     <trans-title>Remote Research of Archaeological Sites of the Southern Trans-Urals Using Geophysics and Machine Learning</trans-title>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Вохминцев</surname>
       <given-names>Александр Владиславович</given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Vokhmintcev</surname>
       <given-names>Alexander Vladislavovich</given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Мельников</surname>
       <given-names>Андрей Витальевич</given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Melnikov</surname>
       <given-names>Andrey Vitalievich</given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Батанина</surname>
       <given-names>Наталья Сергеевна</given-names>
      </name>
      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Batanina</surname>
       <given-names>Natalya Sergeevna</given-names>
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     <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8842-9976</contrib-id>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Куприянова</surname>
       <given-names>Елена Владиславовна</given-names>
      </name>
      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Kupriyanova</surname>
       <given-names>Elena Vladislavovna</given-names>
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     <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4423-0230</contrib-id>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Муравьев</surname>
       <given-names>Лев Анатольевич</given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Muravyev</surname>
       <given-names>Lev Anatolyevich</given-names>
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     <email>mlev@mlev.ru</email>
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      <p>кандидат технических наук;</p>
     </bio>
     <bio xml:lang="en">
      <p>candidate of technical sciences;</p>
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     <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2209-4187</contrib-id>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Романов</surname>
       <given-names>Матвей Александрович</given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Romanov</surname>
       <given-names>Matvey Alexandrovich</given-names>
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     <institution xml:lang="ru">Челябинский государственный университет</institution>
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     <institution xml:lang="en">Chelybinsk State University</institution>
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     <institution xml:lang="ru">Югорский НИИ информационных технологий</institution>
     <city>Ханты-Мансийск</city>
     <country>Россия</country>
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    <aff>
     <institution xml:lang="en">Yugra Research Institute of Information Technologies</institution>
     <city>Khanty-Mansiysk</city>
     <country>Russian Federation</country>
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     <city>Ханты-Манскийск</city>
     <country>Россия</country>
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    <aff>
     <institution xml:lang="en">Yugra State University</institution>
     <city>Khanty-Mansiysk</city>
     <country>Russian Federation</country>
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    <aff>
     <institution xml:lang="ru">Институт геофизики им.Ю.П.Булашевича УрО РАН</institution>
     <country>Россия</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Geophysics UB of RAS</institution>
     <country>Russian Federation</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="ru">Челябинский государственный университет</institution>
     <city>Chelyabinsk</city>
     <country>Россия</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="en">Chelyabinsk state university</institution>
     <city>Chelyabinsk</city>
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    <day>23</day>
    <month>05</month>
    <year>2025</year>
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    <day>23</day>
    <month>05</month>
    <year>2025</year>
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   <volume>25</volume>
   <issue>2</issue>
   <fpage>1</fpage>
   <lpage>5</lpage>
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    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-11-15T00:00:00+03:00">
     <day>15</day>
     <month>11</month>
     <year>2024</year>
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     <day>15</day>
     <month>04</month>
     <year>2025</year>
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    <p>The so-called “Country of Cities” discovered in the second half of the 20th century in the Southern Trans-Urals — more than two dozen fortified settlements of the Middle Bronze Age belonging to the Sintashta culture (about 3–2 thousand years BC) is a unique object of interdisciplinary research. In this paper the study of the architecture of these settlements is carried out by interpreting aerial photographs, space photographs and geophysical methods: magnetometry and areal electromagnetic profiling with the AEMP-14 induction system. The construction of orthophotoplans and a digital relief model is made based on UAV survey data and ground surveys using GNSS and tacheometry. Fundamentally new opportunities are provided by applying modern methods of detection, classification and segmentation of objects based on the use of convolutional neural networks to the obtained data. This paper presents and discusses the results of applying neural networks based on graphs and transformer architecture to the problem of 3d archaeological sites segmentation and methods of their detection based on residual neural networks and networks with transformer architecture.</p>
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    <p>The so-called “Country of Cities” discovered in the second half of the 20th century in the Southern Trans-Urals — more than two dozen fortified settlements of the Middle Bronze Age belonging to the Sintashta culture (about 3–2 thousand years BC) is a unique object of interdisciplinary research. In this paper the study of the architecture of these settlements is carried out by interpreting aerial photographs, space photographs and geophysical methods: magnetometry and areal electromagnetic profiling with the AEMP-14 induction system. The construction of orthophotoplans and a digital relief model is made based on UAV survey data and ground surveys using GNSS and tacheometry. Fundamentally new opportunities are provided by applying modern methods of detection, classification and segmentation of objects based on the use of convolutional neural networks to the obtained data. This paper presents and discusses the results of applying neural networks based on graphs and transformer architecture to the problem of 3d archaeological sites segmentation and methods of their detection based on residual neural networks and networks with transformer architecture.</p>
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    <kwd>Southern Trans-Urals</kwd>
    <kwd>Bronze Age</kwd>
    <kwd>Sintashta culture</kwd>
    <kwd>fortified settlement</kwd>
    <kwd>remote research methods</kwd>
    <kwd>graph convolutional neural networks</kwd>
    <kwd>data segmentation</kwd>
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    <kwd>Southern Trans-Urals</kwd>
    <kwd>Bronze Age</kwd>
    <kwd>Sintashta culture</kwd>
    <kwd>fortified settlement</kwd>
    <kwd>remote research methods</kwd>
    <kwd>graph convolutional neural networks</kwd>
    <kwd>data segmentation</kwd>
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    <funding-statement xml:lang="ru">The study was supported by a grant of the Russian Science Foundation No. 23-11-20007, https://rscf.ru/project/23-11-20007/</funding-statement>
    <funding-statement xml:lang="en">The study was supported by a grant of the Russian Science Foundation No. 23-11-20007, https://rscf.ru/project/23-11-20007/</funding-statement>
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