The Discovery of a Buried Temple in Paestum: The Advantages of the Geophysical Multi-Sensor Application

Capozzoli, Luigi; Catapano, Ilaria; Martino, Gregory De; Gennarelli, Gianluca; Ludeno, Giovanni; Rizzo, Enzo; Soldovieri, Francesco; Scelza, Francesco Uliano; Zuchtriegel, Gabriel

doi:10.3390/rs12172711

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“…The processing and interpretation phase of the georadar data is mainly based on the identification of reflectors, the calculation of their position in depth and their size. The processing phase was very complex and involved several steps: (i) removal of the average trace; (ii) amplitude normalisation (declipping); (iii) migration; and (iv) low-pass filtering [13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Fusion and integration of heterogeneous close range remote sensing and geophysical data. The case of Grumentum.

Masini¹,

Sogliani

Sileo³

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J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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This paper deals with the integration and fusion of UAV-based imagery, including Vis-NIR multispectral and infrared thermography data, with georadar and geomagnetic prospecting, applied on Grumentum, pre-Roman and Roman city, with an important phase dated to Late Antiquity, of the ancient Lucania, in Basilicata region. The data were processed individually and then integrated with each other in order to recover as much information as possible from the different signals. Due to the qualitative and quantitative approaches to the integration and fusion of the diverse data sets and features, it was possible to detect some urban blocks (insulae) reasonably referable to the Roman age, although obviously not datable, and other features spatially linked to the late antique/early medieval church. Grumentum’s experience shows considerable potential as well as limits in the use of the image fusion-based approach for the enhancement of archaeological features, from which emerges the need to continue experimenting these approaches on a greater number of case studies.

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Fusion and integration of heterogeneous close range remote sensing and geophysical data. The case of Grumentum.

Masini¹,

Sogliani

Sileo³

et al. 2022

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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“…Nowadays, GPR is probably one of the most used non-invasive geophysical techniques in the archaeological field witnessed by an increasing amount of scientific research published in the last four decades [7,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63].…”

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“…Among various active geophysical techniques, electric and electromagnetic (em) methods are strongly effective for the detection of archaeological features located in the subsoil at different depths and scenarios [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Localization of anthropic structures placed in the soil is possible due to the contrast of the em physical properties between the materials constituting the buried objects and the subsoil where they are "preserved".…”

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ERT and GPR Prospecting Applied to Unsaturated and Subwater Analogue Archaeological Site in a Full Scale Laboratory

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Geophysical techniques are widely applied in the archaeological field to highlight variations of the physical behaviour of the subsoil due to the presence of ancient and buried remains., Considerable efforts are required to understand the complexity of the relationship between archaeological features and their geophysical response where saturated conditions occur. In the case of lacustrine and wetland scenarios, geophysical contrasts or electromagnetic signal attenuation effects drastically reduce the capabilities of the geophysical methodologies for the detection of structures in such conditions. To identify the capability of the electrical and electromagnetic methods in different water-saturated scenarios, an experimental activity was performed at the Hydrogeosite CNR laboratory. The test allowed us to analyze the limits and potentialities of an innovative approach based on the combined use of the ground-penetrating radar and 2D and 3D electrical resistivity tomographies. Results showed the effectiveness of the ground-penetrating radar for detecting archaeological remains also in quasi-saturated and underwater scenarios despite the em signal attenuation phenomena; whilst the results obtained involving the resistivity tomographies offered a new perspective for the archaeological purposes due to the use of the loop–loop shaped array. Moreover, the radar signal attenuation, resolution and depth of investigation do not allow to fully characterize the archaeological site as in the case of the scenarios with a limited geophysical contrast (i.e., water-saturated and arid scenarios). The experimental tests show that these limits can be only partially mitigated through the integration of the geophysical methodologies and further efforts are necessary for improving the results obtainable with an integrated use of the adopted geophysical methodologies.

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“…Alternatively, or as a complementary tool, linear Microwave Tomographic (MWT) approaches, which face the imaging as an inverse scattering problem (by exploiting the Born Approximation to model the wave-materials interaction underling the GPR survey) can be exploited too [6,7]. To these pros, a valuable example dealing with a large set of field data gathered at the Archaeological Park of Paestum and Velia is provided in [8], where a computational effective implementation of the MWT approach has been used.…”

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GPR Investigation at the Archaeological Site of Le Cesine, Lecce, Italy

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In this contribution, we present some results achieved in the archaeological site of Le Cesine, close to Lecce, in southern Italy. The investigations have been performed in a site close to the Adriatic Sea, only slightly explored up to now, and where the presence of an ancient Roman harbour is alleged on the basis of remains visible above all under the current sea level. This measurement campaign has been performed in the framework of a short-term scientific mission (STSM) performed in the framework of the European Cost Action 17131 (acronym SAGA), and has been aimed to identify possible points where future localized excavation might and hopefully will be performed in the next few years. Both a traditional elaboration and an innovative data processing based on a linear inverse scattering model have been performed on the data.

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The Discovery of a Buried Temple in Paestum: The Advantages of the Geophysical Multi-Sensor Application

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Fusion and integration of heterogeneous close range remote sensing and geophysical data. The case of Grumentum.

Fusion and integration of heterogeneous close range remote sensing and geophysical data. The case of Grumentum.

ERT and GPR Prospecting Applied to Unsaturated and Subwater Analogue Archaeological Site in a Full Scale Laboratory

GPR Investigation at the Archaeological Site of Le Cesine, Lecce, Italy

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