Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Survey with Commercial-Grade Instruments: A Case Study from the Eastern Ḫabur Archaeological Survey, Iraq

Herrmann, Jason T.; Glissmann, Benjamin; Sconzo, Paola; Pfälzner, Peter

doi:10.1080/00934690.2018.1465808

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“…Remote sensing provides the ability to systematically evaluate large-scales (X >1m), helping to identify dominant cultural materials. However, for subtle traces of cultural material, these large-scale approaches must be supplemented with ground-based studies of materials (exceptions include Chiabrando et al 2018;Herrmann et al 2018;Orengo and Garcia-Molsosa 2019).…”

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Addressing the problem of disappearing cultural landscapes in archaeological research using multi-scalar survey

Davis

Seeber

Sanger

2020

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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Climate change and anthropogenic activities are actively destroying the archaeological record.The dramatic disappearance of archaeological landscapes becomes particularly problematic when they are also unrecorded. Hidden from view and eroding, these disappearing landscapes likely hold answers to important anthropological questions. As such, disappearing landscapes present a major challenge for 21 st century archaeology. Left unchecked, this phenomenon will increase the severity of bias in our knowledge of the past. In this paper we use a case study from Pinckney Island in the American Southeast to illustrate how the problem of hidden and disappearing landscapes can be addressed through multi-scalar surveys. Specifically, by combining aerial LiDAR, pedestrian survey, and micro-artifact approaches, the identification of hidden and disappearing cultural materials (including permanent settlements and ephemeral artifact scatters) can be alleviated.

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Addressing the problem of disappearing cultural landscapes in archaeological research using multi-scalar survey

Davis

Seeber

Sanger

2020

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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“…The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, in archaeological research has become commonplace in recent years [75], as they allow archaeologists to quickly generate high-resolution orthophotos and topographic models of sites and landscapes [76,77]. Dronederived DEMs and orthoimagery can reveal subtle features or topographic differences caused by ancient land use that are difficult to observe on the ground or to perceive in lower resolution satellite imagery.…”

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Integrating Satellite, UAV, and Ground-Based Remote Sensing in Archaeology: An Exploration of Pre-Modern Land Use in Northeastern Iraq

Laugier

Casana

2021

Remote Sensing

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Satellite remote sensing is well demonstrated to be a powerful tool for investigating ancient land use in Southwest Asia. However, few regional studies have systematically integrated satellite-based observations with more intensive remote sensing technologies, such as drone-deployed multispectral sensors and ground-based geophysics, to explore off-site areas. Here, we integrate remote sensing data from a variety of sources and scales including historic aerial photographs, modern satellite imagery, drone-deployed sensors, and ground-based geophysics to explore pre-modern land use along the Upper Diyala/Sirwan River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Our analysis reveals an incredible diversity of land use features, including canals, qanats, trackways, and field systems, most of which likely date to the first millennium CE, and demonstrate the potential of more intensive remote sensing methods to resolve land use features. Our results align with broader trends across ancient Southwest Asia that document the most intensive land use in the first millennium BCE through the first millennium CE. Land use features dating to the earlier Bronze Age (fourth through second millennium BCE) remain elusive and will likely require other investigative approaches.

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“…Although all of the previous regional projects cover areas with diverse morphology and land use, remote sensing (RS) resources have been widely used for the remote exploration and the identification of new ones (Herrmann et al, 2018; Koliński, 2015; Ur et al, 2021). RS is an important tool for archaeological research and is now generally used for the discovery, assessment and management of global archaeological heritage (Lasaponara & Masini, 2012; Luo et al, 2019; Masini & Lasaponara, 2017; Parcak, 2009; Wiseman & El‐Baz, 2007), with many published examples.…”

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Archaeological site identification from open access multispectral imagery: Cloud computing applications in Northern Kurdistan (Iraq)

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Maset

Iamoni

2022

Archaeological Prospection

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This paper presents the results of an archaeological survey carried out in the Navkur Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of the 'Asingeran Archaeological Project'. The survey was prepared using remote sensing products accessed via Google Earth Engine ⓒ , a large-scale cloud computing service freely available to the scientific community that allows processing remote sensing big data. Outputs generated with a multitemporal approach are particularly successful for archaeological research, because it is possible to maximize the visibility of archaeological sites, improving their detection. Multispectral imagery from Landsat 5, Landsat 7 and Sentinel-2 collections were used and processed, testing their utility for finding unknown ancient settlements in the densely studied area of Northern Mesopotamia. Seventeen new sites were discovered in an already surveyed area of limited size (<100 km 2 ), showing the potentialities of this method. The advantages of cloud computing for Near Eastern Archaeology and the results of the survey are also presented and discussed.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Survey with Commercial-Grade Instruments: A Case Study from the Eastern Ḫabur Archaeological Survey, Iraq

Cited by 15 publications

References 34 publications

Addressing the problem of disappearing cultural landscapes in archaeological research using multi-scalar survey

Addressing the problem of disappearing cultural landscapes in archaeological research using multi-scalar survey

Integrating Satellite, UAV, and Ground-Based Remote Sensing in Archaeology: An Exploration of Pre-Modern Land Use in Northeastern Iraq

Archaeological site identification from open access multispectral imagery: Cloud computing applications in Northern Kurdistan (Iraq)

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