Earth Observation, Remote Sensing and Geoscientific Ground Investigations for Archaeological and Heritage Research

• Main Author: Tapete, Deodato (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: settlements; historical landscapes; floods; landscape archaeology; education; archaeological fieldwork; Burial Mound; geoglyph Pista; OBIA; satellite imagery; multi-criteria; airborne LiDAR; international law; Survey of India; mapping; Landscape; Africa; heritage; Belize; relict boundaries; capacity development; synthetic aperture radar; disaster and conservation management; Motte-and-Bailey castle; neutron techniques; Cuenca Pisco; grain-size; geological mapping; Peru; Visualization; drones; volcaniclastic layer; UAV; Harra; stratigraphy; Archaeology; e-learning; field reconnaissance; neutron diffraction; archaeological prospection; Jordan; Mesoamerica; predictive model; Ridge and Furrow; Mega El Niño; Earth Observation; archaeological landscapes; colonial studies; river morphology; pampa of Nazca; optical; Boundary Demarcation; space law; orthophotographs; Oman; GoogleEarth; archaeometry; Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission; national archaeological mapping programme; Maya; Sacred; subsurface imaging; basalt desert; Indus; archaeological survey; Sentinel-2; surface survey; Ritual; remote sensing; microwave penetration; Difference Map; drone; tumuli; GIS; international boundaries; Lidar; Caves; Archaeological Survey of India; chemometric analysis; UNESCO; Rio Grande de Nazca; SAR; photogrammetry; Earth observation; arid environments; Sumerian pottery; cultural and natural heritage; free satellite imagery; field monument; RPAS; archaeology; historical maps; satellite; petrography; automated detection; pattern recognition; Arran; LiDAR; airborne laser scanning; landscape accessibility; Geographic Information System (GIS); Bing Maps; analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Roman archaeology; Saharan Morocco
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This book collects 15 papers written by renowned scholars from across the globe that showcase the forefront research in Earth observation (EO), remote sensing (RS), and geoscientific ground investigations to study archaeological records and cultural heritage.Archaeologists, anthropologists, geograph...