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Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing
- Title
- Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing
- Editor(s)
- Forte, Maurizio
- Campana, Stefano
- Date
- 2017
- Number of Pages
- 515
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Springer
- Place Published
- Cham, Switzerland
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-40656-5
- Short Title
- Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology
- Abstract
- This volume debuts the new scope of Remote Sensing, which was first defined as the analysis of data collected by sensors that were not in physical contact with the objects under investigation (using cameras, scanners, and radar systems operating from spaceborne or airborne platforms). A wider characterization is now possible: Remote Sensing can be any non-destructive approach to viewing the buried and nominally invisible evidence of past activity. Spaceborne and airborne sensors, now supplemented by laser scanning, are united using ground-based geophysical instruments and undersea remote sensing, as well as other non-invasive techniques such as surface collection or field-walking survey. Now, any method that enables observation of evidence on or beneath the surface of the earth, without impact on the surviving stratigraphy, is legitimately within the realm of Remote Sensing.
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