通过回顾空间信息技术应用于文化遗产研究的发展历程,分析了各项技术方法的优势与不足,论述了空间信息技术应用于文化遗产研究的最新进展和未来发展趋势。最新的应用进展主要表现在：探测手段的多样化、数据存储管理的集成化、遗产信息虚拟可视化表达、遗址地空间信息智能分析和多种空间信息技术的综合应用。研究结果认为,空间信息技术应用于文化遗产研究正逐步向网络化、集成化、智能化的新阶段迈进。

The study of the cultural heritage, related with the human history in general, is a long-term and multi-disciplinary complex task with important significance. New methods and techniques such as the spatial information technology will remarkably help clarify the time and spatial characteristics of the cultural heritage. As is known, the spatial information technology has been widely used in many aspects of cultural heritage researches due to its powerful capabilities to acquire, store, represent and analyze the spatial data. This paper discuses the current status and the latest progress of the spatial information technology application in the cultural heritage from several key aspects, i.e., various detection techniques, data integration, representative visualization, spatial information intelligent analysis of heritage sites and the comprehensive application of the multiple spatial information technology. The results show that the research in this field is more and more concerned with network, integration and intelligent level.