Google earth and the archaeology of Saudi Arabia. A case study from the Jeddah area

Kennedy, David; Bishop, M.C.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.01.003

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“…EAMENA's interdisciplinary, remote-sensing driven methodology has been developed from techniques employed by previous archaeological projects in the MENA region; the Trans-Sahara Project e.g., [11], the Fragile Crescent Project e.g., [1,2], and APAAME e.g., [13,14] amongst others [37]. Our image interpretation methodology, which primarily relies on Google Earth and Bing maps, feeds directly into user-friendly and standardised data entry, ultimately facilitating on-going and future recording of archaeology across the whole MENA region.…”

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From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

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Abstract:The EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa) project is a collaboration between the Universities of Leicester, Oxford and Durham; it is funded by the Arcadia Fund and the Cultural Protection Fund. This paper explores the development of the EAMENA methodology, and discusses some of the problems of working across such a broad region. We discuss two main case studies: the World Heritage site of Cyrene illustrates how the project can use satellite imagery (dating from the 1960s to 2017), in conjunction with published data to create a detailed set of database records for a single site and, in particular, highlights the impact of modern urban expansion across the region. Conversely, the Homs Cairns case study demonstrates how the EAMENA methodology also works at an extensive scale, and integrates image interpretation (using imagery dating from the 1960s to 2016), landuse mapping and field survey (2007)(2008)(2009)(2010) to record and analyse the condition of hundreds of features across a small study region. This study emphasises the impact of modern agricultural and land clearing activities. Ultimately, this paper assesses the effectiveness of the EAMENA approach, evaluating its potential success against projects using crowd-sourcing and automation for recording archaeological sites, and seeks to determine the most appropriate methods to use to document sites and assess disturbances and threats across such a vast and diverse area.

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From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

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“…GE provides very high resolution (VHR) natural-colour (red-green-blue, RGB) images based on commercial space borne sensors. In spite of the limitations that GE images have, including compression of the original satellite images, loss of image quality and no NIR band is provided, it is noted that several researchers have demonstrated the great potential of GE (and similar digital globes) to support research and to provide updated information [35][36][37].…”

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Detection of olive oil mill waste (OOMW) disposal areas using high resolution GeoEye’s OrbView-3 and Google Earth images

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Abstract:The olive oil industry is considered to be as one of the driving sectors of the agricultural economy of the Mediterranean basin. The extraction of olive oil generates huge quantities of wastes that may have a great impact on land and water environments due to high concentrations in phenolic compounds that could cause ophytotoxicity. This paper aims to examine the potential use of freely distributed satellite images for the detection of olive oil mil waste (OOMW) areas in the island of Crete through the use of two cases studies. In the first case study an archive GeoEye OrbView-3 image was used to detect OOMW areas using the Spectral Angle Mapper detection algorithm and other geometric and topographic parameters. In the second case study, Google Earth images were examined through different classification algorithms at different scales. The overall results demonstrate that remote sensing techniques can be used as an alternative to field observations so as to detect and monitor OOMW areas Furthermore, freely distributed RGB images from digital globes (such as Google Earth) can be sufficiently and effectively used for this purpose.

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“…The freely available satellite images from the Google Maps database have primarily served as inexpensive alternatives to costly commercial satellite imagery. While remote sensing and the use of satellite images are not new in scientific research (e.g., Mertens and Lambin 2000), the costs and necessary technical expertise required to apply these methods have certainly been reduced with the widespread availability of easy-to-use and inexpensive online mapping applications such as Google Maps (Pringle 2010;Kennedy and Bishop 2011). Areas that were previously considered too remote or too expensive to access in person can now be relatively easily surveyed from the researcher's computer (Myers 2010;Pringle 2010).…”

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Applying Google Maps and Google Street View in criminological research

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2014

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Online mapping technologies such as Google Maps and Street View have become increasingly accessible. These technologies have many convenient uses in everyday life, but law enforcement agencies have expressed concern that they could be exploited by offenders and might alter existing offending patterns and habits. For environmental criminologists, they have the potential to open up new approaches to conducting research. This paper draws on the results of earlier studies in related fields and a handful of criminological studies to discuss how these online mapping applications can trigger new research questions, and how they could be considered a valuable methodological addition to criminological research.

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Google earth and the archaeology of Saudi Arabia. A case study from the Jeddah area

Cited by 72 publications

References 9 publications

From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

Detection of olive oil mill waste (OOMW) disposal areas using high resolution GeoEye’s OrbView-3 and Google Earth images

Applying Google Maps and Google Street View in criminological research

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