Archaeological Remote Sensing in the 21st Century: (Re)Defining Practice and Theory

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Archaeology; Biography and non-fiction prose; airborne laser scanning; alluvial sediments; ALS; amplitude; anomaly detection; archaeological prospection; archaeological remote sensing; archaeological survey; archaeology; arid environments; blend modes; chert sourcing; citizen science; cropmarks; cultural context; cultural heritage monitoring; deep learning; digital elevation model; empirical knowledge; geomorphological/pedological background; GIS; heritage management; historic mining; hyperspectral data; Landsat 8; lidar; LiDAR; lithic procurement; lithological mapping; Martin Heidegger; mimesis; MNF; n/a; radiative transfer model; radiometric calibration; reflectance; relief mapping; remote sensing archaeology; satellite archaeology; satellite mission design; satellite remote sensing; Sicily; soil spatial infrastructure; statistical methods; submerged areas; technology; The Netherlands; transfer learning; visualization
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 Remotely sensed data from either air- or spaceborne platforms are often leveraged for archaeological or more general cultural heritage goals. However, despite the steady developments in remote sensing technology over the past three decades, the thoughtful integration of data sources and methods into theoretically aware archaeological practice remains relatively underdeveloped. This volume contains nine contributions which, each in their way, address different theoretical dislocations and practical shortcomings in the use of remote sensing products within archaeological practice. These contributions provide the reader with food for thought on these challenges, and so contribute to archaeological remote sensing as a more mature interdisciplinary field characterised by explicit, thoughtful, and theoretically engaged approaches to understanding the past.