Multispectral and high-resolution images as sources for archaeological surveys. New data from Iraqi Kurdistan

• Riccardo Valente ^[1] ; Marco Iamoni ^[1] ; Eleonora Maset ^[1]
  1. [1] Università di Udine

     Università di Udine

     Udine, Italia

     
• Localización: Archeologia e calcolatori, ISSN 1120-6861, Nº. 34, 2, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: In ricordo di Lea Frosini Ariani, un editore lungimirante), págs. 207-223
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The paper presents the results of a two-year archaeological survey carried out in the Iraqi Kurdistan, namely within the Navkur Plain that has been extensively explored by the University of Udine since 2012. The surveys were planned in advance using Remote Sensing products available online and processed with Google Earth Engine, a large-scale cloud computing service specifically designed to process geospatial big data and especially satellite imagery. Images from Landsat 5, Landsat 7 and Sentinel-2 platforms were selected, processed and assessed. After two years, an overall number of 46 new and previously unknown sites have been localized and surveyed, contributing to the knowledge of the past history of this portion of the Kurdistan region and testing the use of Remote Sensing cloud-computing applications in the context of Near Eastern archaeological research.