Course: Advanced Archaeological Remote Sensing: Site Prospection, Landscape Archaeology and Heritage Protection in the Middle East and North Africa

Having collected all our data, it’s now time to make some maps! Having collected all the raw data on the archaeological sites of Lake Hamrin, now we want to make …

There is one final thing that most maps will need. If a map uses data that you didn’t create yourself, especially satellite imagery, you must reference it properly. If you …

We have covered a lot over the last five weeks! It can be hard to know where to start with these different techniques and datasets. So, this week we are …

Having collected all this data we want to show you what can be done with it. We are going to digitise and combine the archaeological information that all these different …

Now we are going to be working with historical maps – learning where we can find them, and how we can work with them in QGIS. Several websites host large …

The National Library of Australia’s (NLA) Trove website is another great place to find and download maps. The NLA Trove website The NLA Trove website hosts more than 100,000 scanned …

Once we have downloaded a map that is of interest to us, we need to get it into QGIS! Just like the Corona imagery we will need to georeference it …

In this section we are going to be working with Corona imagery – downloading it and using it in QGIS. Searching for Corona in EarthExplorer Corona imagery can be downloaded …

Now that we have downloaded our Corona image, we need to add it to QGIS! Extracting our Corona imagery Before we can work with our imagery, we need to get …

Archaeologists can use historical imagery and topographic maps to see how their area of interest looked in the recent past. Lots of this data dates to the 20th century, relating …

Clearly there is a lot of really interesting historical data available, but how exactly can archaeologists use it in their work? Let’s look at some examples! Site prospection Historical data …

Our digital elevation model is useful on its own, but we can also use it to create completely new data that can give us even more information about our sites …

We are going to be working with SRTM DEM data, first we need to download it! SRTM data can be downloaded from the EarthExplorer website, where we downloaded Landsat imagery …

We are going to add and visualise our elevation data in QGIS. Adding the data Hopefully you should be getting familiar with this process by now! 1) Open QGIS. Start …

Synthetic aperture radar (or SAR) is the most common type of radar system used in remote sensing that can produce imagery similar to the multispectral images we covered in Week …