Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space
Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space: In Observance of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention offers a concise overview of air and spaceborne imagery and related geospatial technologies tailored to the needs of archaeologists.
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Douglas C. Comer • Michael J. Harrower
Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space
Douglas C. Comer International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) Baltimore, MD, USA
Michael J. Harrower Johns Hopkins University Near Eastern Studies Baltimore, MD, USA
ISSN 1861-6623 ISSN 2192-4910 (electronic) ISBN 978-1-4614-6073-2 ISBN 978-1-4614-6074-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6074-9 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012951335 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply , even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Published in Observance of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
Foreword
Archaeologists have made use of the vertical perspective and imaging technologies since the 1880s when dry plates made photography from hot air balloons more feasible. The use of aircraft in the 1900s enabled more widespread local to regional scale coverage for aerial photography. The last half of the twentieth century brought transformative changes with access to space, technologies to image much more of the spectrum than seen by the human eye, precise global positioning, and well-calibrated digital imaging approaches that coll
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