THE "ASTRODACIA" RESEARCH PROJECT, ROMANIA. ARCHAEOMETRICAL DATA BASE SYSTEM. FROM THE MATHEMATICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE ANTIQUITY TO THE MODERN GPS SYSTEMS. SECOND PART

1) The objective of the research. This paper presents the second stage of the modules contained by the "Archaeological Repertory" project, a data-based system, and their management, containing the archaeological sites of Romania. In its turn, this project is part of another major project, entitled "AstroDacia". The aim of the "AstroDacia" project is to create a data basis at a national level, to be used in archaeological, archaeometrical, archaeoastronomical, ethno-astronomical and history research.. The Universities of Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Alba-Iulia, Targoviste and Sibiu, as well as the History Museums of Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Deva and Alba-Iulia, and MURC Alba - Iulia, have also embarked on this project. " MultiUser Research Center" - MURC, aims to create competitive specialists, structures and means, necessary to performant specific, interdisciplinary research and implicitly to consolidate the skills and facilities for higher education and research, according to the "Reform Project for Higher Education and Research" RO 4096, co-financed by Word Bank and the Government of Romania.

2) Methodological considerations and results. In this paper are presented two of the data-based modules of the project "Archaeological Repertory":

The "Antiquity" module contains:
- The analysis of the numeration system of the Antiquity, as well as the length units used in the respective age (especially the Greek units)
- The analysis of the projection systems of the Antiquity ( ortoganal, stereographycal)
- The geodezic and geographical coordinates measurements in the Antiquity (Eratostene, Heron, Ptolemeu)
The module uses its own PC software, that automatically converts the Greek letter-based numeration into numbers, determines the origin of the reference system used by the ancients, and the statistic errors that occurred in the determination of the geographic coordinates in various areas.
The "GPS" module consists of:
- The total GPS configuration of three distinct segments: the Space Segment, the Control Segment and the User Segment;
- The Profesional GPS Soft, "SKI-Pro" (Static-Kinematic-Profesional GPS soft for post-procesing and management of GPS data);
- The results of the GPS Measuring (Starting a Project in Transilvania and Dobrudja, Romania)

Certain "AstroDacia" project components have been presented at the following International conferences: Iasi (Roumania 1996), Gdansk (Poland 1997), Barcelona (Spain 1998), La Laguna (Spain 1999), Mexico-City (Mexico, 2000), Roma (Italy 2001), Stockholm (Sweden 2001), Amsterdam (Netherlands 2002).