| Interpreting archaeological topography RS Opitz, DC Cowley Oxbow books, 2022 | 172 | 2022 |
| The data explosion: Tackling the taboo of automatic feature recognition in airborne survey data R Bennett, D Cowley, V De Laet Antiquity 88 (341), 896-905, 2014 | 88 | 2014 |
| Historic aerial photographic archives for European archaeology DC Cowley, BB Stichelbaut European Journal of Archaeology 15 (2), 217-236, 2012 | 64 | 2012 |
| In with the new, out with the old? Auto-extraction for remote sensing archaeology DC Cowley Remote sensing of the ocean, sea ice, coastal waters, and large water …, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| Time and a Place: A luni-solar'time-reckoner'from 8th millennium BC Scotland VL Gaffney, S Fitch, E Ramsey, R Yorston, E Ch'ng, E Baldwin, R Bates, ... | 54 | 2013 |
| Towards national archaeological mapping. Assessing source data and methodology—A case study from Scotland Ł Banaszek, DC Cowley, M Middleton Geosciences 8 (8), 272, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| Deploying multispectral remote sensing for multi‐temporal analysis of archaeological crop stress at Ravenshall, Fife, Scotland C Moriarty, DC Cowley, T Wade, CJ Nichol Archaeological Prospection 26 (1), 33-46, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
| A case study in the analysis of patterns of aerial reconnaissance in a lowland area of southwest Scotland DC Cowley Archaeological Prospection 9 (4), 255-265, 2002 | 43 | 2002 |
| Finding common ground: Human and computer vision in archaeological prospection A Traviglia, D Cowley, K Lambers AARGnews 53, 11-24, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| Interpreting aerial images–developing best practice R Palmer, D Cowley Space, Time, Place. Third International Conference on Remote Sensing in …, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| The impact of aerial photography across the lowlands of south-west Scotland DC Cowley, K Brophy Transactions of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian …, 2001 | 28 | 2001 |
| Thermal and multispectral remote sensing for the detection and analysis of archaeologically induced crop stress at a UK site K James, CJ Nichol, T Wade, D Cowley, S Gibson Poole, A Gray, ... Drones 4 (4), 61, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| Making LiGHT work of large area survey? Developing approaches to rapid archaeological mapping and the creation of systematic national-scaled heritage data D Cowley, Ł Banaszek, G Geddes, A Gannon, M Middleton, K Millican Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 3 (1), 109-121, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| Historic aerial photographs for archaeology and heritage management D Cowley, L Ferguson Space Time and Place: Proceedings of the III International Conference on …, 2009 | 21 | 2009 |
| Site morphology and regional variation in the later prehistoric settlement of south-west Scotland D Cowley BAR BRITISH SERIES 302, 167-176, 2000 | 21 | 2000 |
| The Traprain environs in a regional perspective DC Cowley The Traprain Law Environs Project-Fieldwork and Excavations 2004, 205-23, 2000 | 16 | 2000 |
| Some observations on the nature of aerial survey D Cowley, S Gilmour From the Air: understanding aerial archaeology, 50-63, 2005 | 15 | 2005 |
| What kind of gaps? Some approaches to understanding bias in remote sensing data DC Cowley Archeologia aerea 7 (13), 76-88, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| Clays and ‘difficult soils’ in eastern and southern Scotland: dealing with the gaps DC Cowley, AL Dickson Populating Clay Landscapes; Mills, J., Palmer, R., Eds, 43-54, 2007 | 13 | 2007 |
| Editorial for special issue:“Archaeological remote sensing in the 21st century:(Re) defining practice and theory” D Cowley, G Verhoeven, A Traviglia Remote Sensing 13 (8), 1431, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
