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There have been a lot of cool discoveries in the last few years, particularly since google earth became available but generally with the easy availability of sa

There have been a lot of cool discoveries in the last few years, particularly since google earth became available but generally with the easy availability of satellite imagery. It's even got a name now - satellite archaeology. From what I've read - at the high end it includes some cool processing using non-visible wavelengths (e.g. infrared). But my understanding is that so far, it is still a lot of people looking at pictures and saying "that looks like people did it!". Does anyone know of any efforts to automate via image/pattern recognition - something like (off the top of my head) Comparing features that meet a certain regularity threshold to maps of "known things" and flagging places that might be significant and unknown? Seems like a fun project to devote some time/effort to.

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hluska 11y ago
I remember reading an article in Archaeology magazine. Some researchers from some school automated the search for settlements. I can't remember if they were successful or not. Edit #1 - That was the most useless comment that I've ever either written or read, so I did some digging. Here's the article that I remember: http://archive.archaeology.org/1207/features/aster_satellite_remote_sensing_bronze_age_syria.html http://archive.archaeology.org/1207/features/aster_satellite... Jason Ur (one of the researchers) has a list of pubs available. Looks like a few of these would be of value to you: http://scholar.harvard.edu/jasonur/node/93931 http://scholar.harvard.edu/jasonur/node/93931
- sophacles 11y ago
  Cool, thanks for the links!
- toyg 11y ago
  "Jason Ur" is such a cool name for an archeologist, it wouldn't be out of place in a movie or a book about immortals hiding among humans. Edit: Wikipedia for the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

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hluska 11y ago

I remember reading an article in Archaeology magazine. Some researchers from some school automated the search for settlements. I can't remember if they were successful or not. Edit #1 - That was the most useless comment that I've ever either written or read, so I did some digging. Here's the article that I remember: http://archive.archaeology.org/1207/features/aster_satellite_remote_sensing_bronze_age_syria.html http://archive.archaeology.org/1207/features/aster_satellite... Jason Ur (one of the researchers) has a list of pubs available. Looks like a few of these would be of value to you: http://scholar.harvard.edu/jasonur/node/93931 http://scholar.harvard.edu/jasonur/node/93931

sophacles 11y ago
Cool, thanks for the links!
toyg 11y ago
"Jason Ur" is such a cool name for an archeologist, it wouldn't be out of place in a movie or a book about immortals hiding among humans. Edit: Wikipedia for the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur