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Corona Satellite Pictures for Archaeological Studies: A Review and Application to the Lost Forbidden City of the Han–Wei Dynasties
- Source :
- Surveys in geophysics 39 (2018): 1303–1322. doi:10.1007/s10712-018-9490-2, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Lasaponara R.; Yang R.; Chen F.; Li X.; Masini N./titolo:Corona Satellite Pictures for Archaeological Studies: A Review and Application to the Lost Forbidden City of the Han-Wei Dynasties/doi:10.1007%2Fs10712-018-9490-2/rivista:Surveys in geophysics/anno:2018/pagina_da:1303/pagina_a:1322/intervallo_pagine:1303–1322/volume:39
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- This paper provides a state of the art of the use of declassified satellite Corona for archaeological application and deals with the use of historical archives of Corona and aerial photographs for detecting ancient hidden cultural relics that may be completely lost in the modern landscape veiled by current land uses and land covers. Geospatial analysis is adopted to identify, extract and map the subtle archaeological features and cultural landscape of the lost Han-Wei Forbidden City in the Henan Province (China). It was one of the most important cities of ancient China, served as the capital for a long period, from the Eastern Zhou (2600 BP, Zhou Dynasty) to the Eastern Han and Wei Dynasties (1900-1500 BP). Outputs from our investigations clearly provided evidence of numerous buried structures of potential archaeological interest that were compared with historical documentation and excavations carried out in the area. The geospatial analysis, applied both to aerial photograph and to Corona pictures, enabled us to discover a number of unknown sub-palaces and structures, thus providing new insights for this important archaeological area.
- Subjects :
- China
Geospatial analysis
Aerial photographs
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Archaeological features
computer.software_genre
01 natural sciences
Aerial photography
Geochemistry and Petrology
Han-Wei dynasties
0601 history and archaeology
Corona (planetary geology)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
060102 archaeology
Land use
Cultural landscape
History of China
Excavation
06 humanities and the arts
Archaeology
Geophysics
Geography
Declassified satellite Corona
Historical archives
computer
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730956 and 01693298
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Surveys in Geophysics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....05124ec854a319c06f1bdfeb70402660