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The historical significance of tar production, an important livelihood for centuries, has had extensive environmental and ecological impacts, particularly in the thinly inhabited northern and eastern parts of Finland. Despite being one of the most widespread archaeological features in the country, tar kilns have received relatively little attention until recently. The authors employed a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) U-Net-based algorithm to detect these features from the ALS data, which proved to be more accurate, faster, and capable of covering systematically larger spatial areas than human actors. It also produces more consistent, replicable, and ethically sustainable results. This semi-automated approach enabled the efficient location of a vast number of previously unknown archaeological features, significantly increasing the number of tar kilns in each study area compared to the previous situation. This has implications also for the cultural resource management in Finland. The authors\u2019 findings have influenced the preparation of the renewal of the Finnish Antiquities Act, raising concerns about the perceived impacts on cultural heritage management and land use sectors due to the projected tenfold increase in archaeological site detection using deep learning algorithms. The use of environmental remote sensing data may provide a means of examining the long-term cultural and ecological impacts of tar production in greater detail. Our pilot studies suggest that artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques have the potential to revolutionize archaeological research and cultural resource management in Finland, offering promising avenues for future exploration.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15071799","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,28]],"date-time":"2023-03-28T04:37:15Z","timestamp":1679978235000},"page":"1799","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Detecting the Archaeological Traces of Tar Production Kilns in the Northern Boreal Forests Based on Airborne Laser Scanning and Deep Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Niko","family":"Anttiroiko","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Finnish Heritage Agency, 00510 Helsinki, Finland"}]},{"given":"Floris Jan","family":"Groesz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Field\/Blom, NO-0283 Oslo, Norway"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6334-4570","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Janne","family":"Ik\u00e4heimo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Archaeology, Humanities, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland"}]},{"given":"Aleksi","family":"Kelloniemi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Archaeology, Humanities, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland"}]},{"given":"Risto","family":"Nurmi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Archaeology, Humanities, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland"}]},{"given":"Stian","family":"Rostad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Field\/Blom, NO-0283 Oslo, Norway"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3792-0081","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Oula","family":"Seitsonen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Archaeology, Humanities, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland"},{"name":"Archaeology, Humanities, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Hamari, P. 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