Archaeological Methods & Applications in Multispectral Image Processing -

Archaeological Methods & Applications in Multispectral Image Processing

Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2024
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-732-2 (ISBN)
47,35 inkl. MwSt
Major new collection of case studies setting standards and demonstrating applications for the acquisition, manipulation and presentation of complex datasets derived from remote sensing of archaeological sites.
Remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) have become standard data modelling and research tools with a wide range of applications. Aiming to facilitate discussion about the development of discipline-wide standards for technical data processing, this volume surveys the development and state of the field and showcases studies employing remotely sensed data to investigate archaeological problems in a variety of geographic settings, including the American Southwest, Kenya, Yucatan, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Southeastern Louisiana, and the Maya Lowlands. Papers highlight a series of methodological challenges across a diverse set of environmental regimes, using both tried-and-true and in-development solutions for archaeological prospection, environment characterization and heritage management. Contributors showcase innovative theoretical approaches and methods in data collection and analysis that contribute to new insights, which would have been inaccessible through traditional fieldwork alone. This volume presents a discussion of the state of the field as it stands now, and a critical assessment of developments necessary to its survival and is intended to serve as a training model.

Lauren M. Santini is a researcher at Harvard University. She is an archaeologist and remote sensing specialist. Her research focuses on environmental issues among the ancient Maya; specifically focused on multispectral satellite imagery, and ethnobotany with a focus on wood charcoal analysis. She has conducted fieldwork in Guatemala, Honduras, China, Turkey, and North America. Her current project focuses on tree and forest resource use in the Maya Mountains, Belize, with the Maya Mountains Geospatial Project. Willem VanEssendelft is an archaeology doctoral candidate at Tulane University, and a practising information technology consultant. Previously, his research has used remote sensing and GIS to assess Aztec imperial expansion narratives in their historical record. He is currently performing fieldwork on ancient hydrology in central Mexico and has also dug square holes in the northern Yucatan peninsula and Honduras. Bryce Davenport is an independent scholar based in Baltimore, Maryland. While completing his graduate studies at Brandeis University, he focused on Mesoamerican political economy and terrain modeling applications for understanding territoriality.

Forward

Lauren M. Santini, Willem VanEssendelft and Bryce Davenport

 

The Application of Remote Sensing and GIS Technology to Archaeological Research: Past, Present, and Future

Thomas L. Sever

 

Part I

Geospatial Data and Dialogue: Perspectives from an Interdisciplinary Project along Quintana Roo’s North Coast

Andrew Vaughn

 

Multispectral, Low Altitude Aerial Photography Methods for Archaeological Survey

Sarah Hlubik, Emily Wahler, Craig Feibel, J. W. K. Harris

 

Remote Sensing of Vegetation as a Proxy for the Discovery and Delineation of Archaeological Sites

Marco Giardino and Nicola Masini

 

Part II

A Fistful of Data: Quantitative, Exploratory Analysis of Combined Remote Sensing and Archaeological Data

Alex Kara and Lauren Santini

 

Measuring Ancient Maya Influence on a River Drainage Using Multispectral Satellite remote Sensing and a Channel Sinuosity Index

Robert Griffin, Nicholas Dunning, Thomas Sever

 

Detection Based Modeling for the Wide Area Archaeological Site Inventory and Evaluation: A New Decision Support and Archaeological Landscape Research Tool

Douglas C. Comer, Bryce Davenport, Zachary Lubberts

 

Mapping Marginal Landscapes: A Study from Neolithic Shetland

Will Megarry, Gabriel Cooney, Robert Sands, Douglas Comer, Bryce Davenport

 

Conclusion

Devin White and Katie A. Corcoran

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo b/w and colour
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 220 x 280 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-78570-732-9 / 1785707329
ISBN-13 978-1-78570-732-2 / 9781785707322
Zustand Neuware
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