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Remote Sensing in Archaeology

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. James Wiseman

    1. Center for Archaeological Studies, Boston University, Boston, USA

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  2. Farouk El-Baz

    1. Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, Boston, USA

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  • Covers the breadth of remote sensing that is applicable to archaeology including satellite images, GIS, ground-penetrating radar, and maritime settings
  • The cases included are international and covers sensing in arid, semi-arid and tropical regions

Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-8
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  2. Radar And Satellite Images

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Imaging Radar in Archaeological Investigations: An Image Processing Perspective

      • Derrold W. Holcomb, Irina Lita Shingiray
      Pages 11-45

    3. Radar Images and Geoarchaeology of the Eastern Sahara

      • Farouk El-Baz, Cordula A. Robinson, Turki S.M. Al-Saud
      Pages 47-69

    4. Southern Arabian Desert Trade Routes, Frankincense, Myrrh, and the Ubar Legend

      • Ronald G. Blom, Robert Crippen, Charles Elachi, Nicholas Clapp, George R. Hedges, Juris Zarins
      Pages 71-87

    5. The Use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) in Archaeological Investigations and Cultural Heritage Preservation

      • Diane L. Evans, Tom G. Farr
      Pages 89-102

    6. Detection and Identification of Archaeological Sites and Features Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data Collected from Airborne Platforms

      • Douglas C. Comer, Ronald G. Blom
      Pages 103-136

    7. Putting Us on the Map: Remote Sensing Investigation of the Ancient Maya Landscape

      • William Saturno, Thomas L. Sever, Daniel E. Irwin, Burgess F. Howell, Thomas G. Garrison
      Pages 137-160

    8. Creating and Perpetuating Social Memory Across the Ancient Costa Rican Landscape

      • Payson Sheets, Thomas L. Sever
      Pages 161-184

    9. Spaceborne and Airborne Radar at Angkor: Introducing New Technology to the Ancient Site

      • Elizabeth Moore, Tony Freeman, Scott Hensley
      Pages 185-216

  3. Aerial Photography and Fractals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Remote Sensing, Fractals, and Cultural Landscapes: An Ethnographic Prolegomenon Using U2 Imagery

      • Ezra B. W. Zubrow
      Pages 219-235

  5. Geophysical Prospecting and Analytical Presentations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 327-327
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    2. Ground-penetrating Radar for Archaeological Mapping

      • Lawrence B. Conyers
      Pages 329-344

    3. Integrating Multiple Geophysical Datasets

      • Kenneth L. Kvamme
      Pages 345-374

    4. Ground Penetrating Radar Advances in Subsurface Imaging for Archaeology

      • Dean Goodman, Kent Schneider, Salvatore Piro, Yasushi Nishimura, Agamemnon G. Pantel
      Pages 375-394
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About this book

Over the last few decades, a revolution took place in our ability to observe and “explore” our home planet using spaceborne and airborne remote sensing instruments. This revolution resulted from the new capability of observing on a large, regional and global, scale surface patterns and features, and from using multispectral instruments to observe surface signatures not visible to the human eye, and to penetrate below the surface cover using microwave radiation. Over the last decade, this new technology is being brought to bear in the field of archaeology. As nicely and comprehensively described in this book, remote sensing techniques are bringing new powerful tools to help archaeologists in their quest of discovery and exploration. Even though this field is still in its infancy, the different articles in this book give us a glimpse of the things to come and the great potential of remote sensing in archaeology. The editors have brought an excellent sampling of authors that illustrate how remote sensing techniques are being used in the real world of arc- ological exploration. A number of chapters illustrate how spaceborne and airborne remote sensing instruments are being used to decipher surface morphological features in arid (Egypt, Arabia), semi-arid (Greece, Ethiopia, Italy), as well as tropical regions (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Cambodia) to help in archeological and paleontological exploration. They illustrate the use of surface-cover penetration with radars, high-resolution multispectral imaging on a regional basis, as well as topographic signatures acquired with spaceborne and airborne sensors.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Archaeological Studies, Boston University, Boston, USA

    James Wiseman

  • Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, Boston, USA

    Farouk El-Baz

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