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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

Digital elevation models are a useful way of storing and visualising elevation data. Like satellite imagery they consist of a raster, but unlike most of the imagery we have worked …