Magnetic mapping, ground penetrating radar surveys and magnetic susceptibility measurements for the study of the archaeological site of Serra di Vaglio (southern Italy)

Electric and magnetic tomographic approach for the geophysical investigation of an unexplored area in the archaeological site of Pompeii (Southern Italy)

“…To this aim, we used an automatic procedure, based on statistical criteria, which allows us to detect and remove the spikes from the magnetic maps (Bavusi et al, 2004;Chianese et al, 2004).…”

“…In particular, the joint application of electric and magnetic methods for the localization of buried structures has become a standard approach to solve some archaeological problems (Batmunkh et al, 2004;Chianese et al, 2004;Gaffney et al, 2004). In fact, both the electrical and magnetic techniques are nowadays widely employed for archaeological aims, because the electric method is applied to estimate the shape and the depth of buried structures (Cammarano et al, 2000;Di Fiore et al, 2002;Rizzo et al, 2005), while the magnetic method is applied to detect the presence of buried objects characterised by a magnetic susceptibility contrast in respect of the surrounding ground or with a remnant magnetisation (Aitken, 1974).…”

An Iterative Approach to Ground Penetrating Radar at the Maya Site of Pacbitun, Belize

“…There are numerous commonly employed geophysical techniques for archaeological prospection in ancient, complex, urban sites, which describes the site core area of Pacbitun, including electric resistivity tomography or imaging (ERT/ERI) [10][11][12][13], geomagnetic mapping (GM), frequency domain electromagnetic methods (FDEM) [14][15][16][17][18][19], and GPR or georadar [17,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. A GPR and GM survey was deemed most appropriate for exploring two plaza areas which needed to be completed in six days.…”

New temple discovery at the archaeological site of Nysa (western Turkey) using GPR method

“…In general the survey targets include the identification and mapping of buried artefacts or construction features, the localization of tombs, burial mounds, shallow graves and the reconstruction of archaeological layers (e.g. roads, walls, channels) (Vaughan, 1986;Goodman, 1994;Goodman et al, 1995;McCann, 1995;Hruska and Fuchs, 1999;Dabas et al, 2000;Piro et al, 2001;Lualdi and Zanzi, 2002;Chianese et al, 2004;Persson and Olofsson, 2004;Leucci and Negri, 2006;Leckebusch et al, 2008).…”