An overview of satellite synthetic aperture radar remote sensing in archaeology: From site detection to monitoring

Chen, Feng and Lasaponara, Rosa and Masini, Nicola (2015) An overview of satellite synthetic aperture radar remote sensing in archaeology: From site detection to monitoring. Journal of Cultural Heritage. ISSN 1778-3674 (In Press)

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Abstract

tIn the last two decades, archaeology has benefited from the development of earth observation (EO) tech-nologies, including optical multispectral, LiDAR and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing. Thelatter is gaining the attention of an expanding community of scientists and archaeologists due to theincreasing availability of multi-platform, multi-band, multi-polarization and very high-resolution satel-lite SAR data. It is increasingly becoming an important tool in archaeology owing to specific characteristicof its operational modalities, e.g. all-weather, penetration, polarization and interferometry. However,compared to other EO technologies, SAR is encountering more difficulties in realizing its full potential forarchaeological applications due to the greater complexity of data processing and interpretation tools. Inthis paper, SAR-based approaches for the reconnaissance of archaeological signs and SAR interferometryfor the monitoring of cultural heritage sites are discussed. Ways and means to reduce complexity of dataprocessing and interpretation tools are also explored.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate
Depositing User: dottoressa Stefania Santangelo
Date Deposited: 14 Feb 2017 14:17
Last Modified: 14 Feb 2017 14:17
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15910

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