Remote Sensing in Archaeology

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

4. Geographic Information Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. Understanding Archaeological Landscapes: Steps Towards an Improved Integration of Survey Methods in the Reconstruction of Subsurface Sites in South Tuscany

      • Stefano Campana, Riccardo Francovich

      Pages 239-261

   3. Remote Sensing and GIS Analysis of a Maya City and Its Landscape: Holmul, Guatemala

      • Francisco Estrada-Belli, Magaly Koch

      Pages 263-281

   4. Remote Sensing and GIS Use in the Archaeological Analysis of the Central Mesopotamian Plain

      • Benjamin F. Richason, Carrie Hritz

      Pages 283-325

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

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.

• GIS
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Maya
• Remote Sensing
• artifacts
• geoarchaeology
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

• 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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