Archaeological and cultural heritage (ACH), one of the core carriers of cultural diversity on
our planet, has a direct bearing on the sustainable development of mankind. Documenting …

Spatial technology is integral to how archaeologists collect, store, analyze, and represent
information in digital data sets. Recent advances have improved our ability to look for and …

This handbook is the first comprehensive overview of the field of satellite remote sensing for
archaeology and how it can be applied to ongoing archaeological fieldwork projects across …

Scientific techniques developed in materials science offer invaluable information to
archaeology, art history, and conservation. A rapidly growing number of innovative methods …

Declassified CORONA satellite imagery, collected from 1960–1972 as part of the world's first
intelligence satellite program, provides nearly global, high-resolution, stereo imagery that …

CORONA satellite imagery, preserving an account of the earth's surface from 40 years ago,
is a most important archaeological survey tool and we have often sung its praises. Here the …

This article presents analysis of recent, high-resolution satellite imagery to document looting
and damage to archaeological sites in Syria that have taken place as a consequence of the …

Traces archaeology's contribution to Islamic culture from its earliest manifestations to the
present This introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world traces the history of the …

Recently declassified photographs taken by U2 spy planes in the 1950s and 1960s provide
an important new source of historical aerial imagery useful for Eurasian archaeology. Like …

Satellite imagery, and specifically CORONA, is now of common use in archaeology.
CORONA, as it produces two images of the same spot (afterward and forward), allows for …