Qacem Khezami

PhD Candidate, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS ESPACE UMR 7300
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Affiliations actuelles
  • Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
  • Études des Structures, des Processus d’Adaptation et des Changements de l’Espace (ESPACE)
  • Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan (SFDAS)
  • Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE)
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Research Areas My research focuses on the protection of archaeological heritage from various risks that may affect or destroy it. In particular, it involves the modeling, geosimulation, and mapping of geomorphological hazards related to the evolution of the Nile’s channel and banks, floods, and sedimentation. It also includes the identification and monitoring of anthropogenic risks resulting from territorial transformations and societal dynamics such as demographic growth, urbanization, and agricultural expansion. Furthermore, my work seeks to monitor archaeological sites and detect changes, especially those linked to looting. Beyond these technical aspects, I also explore the collective and geographical construction of spatial memory through the lens of heritage geography in the Sahelian region of Sudan, specifically along the Nile river, in the Middle East, and in restricted areas affected by wars or limited accessibility due to dramatic geography. Geographic Analysis is based on the development and implementation of Earth Observation remote sensing monitoring systems and geo-simulations: multispectral, hyperspectral imagery, artificial intelligence, massive data image processing, multi-temporal geographic knowledge systems, GIS.

Geographic information science

  • Remote sensing, image processing, and image analysis
  • GIS, spatial modelling, and geo-simulation
  • Knowledge models, geographic ontologies, and artificial intelligence

Palimpsest Geography, territorial development, and adaptation of the climate change and globalisation in Sahelian context

  • Metropolisation.
  • Territorial development and adaption of climate change and globalization.
  • Environmental interactions.
  • Geopolitical issues.

Geographic areas

  • Sahelian region of Sudan.
  • Nile River.
  • MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.


Compétences

geomatics geography remote sensing GIS Geopolitics Heritage protection Natural hazards Looting detection VHR Imagery Machine Learning & Deep Learning AI

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Innovative monitoring project to protect at risk archaeological heritage in Sudan

Sébastien Poudroux , Qacem Khezami , Juliette Laroye , Séverine Marchi , Sébastien Gadal et al.
SAfA 2025: Crossroads through Time, Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), Jul 2025, Faro, Portugal, Portugal
Communication dans un congrès hal-05342212 v1