Archaeological and cultural heritage (ACH), one of the core carriers of cultural diversity on
our planet, has a direct bearing on the sustainable development of mankind. Documenting …

Object‐based image analysis (OBIA) is a method of assessing remote sensing data that
uses morphometric and spectral parameters simultaneously to identify features in remote …

This handbook is the first comprehensive overview of the field of satellite remote sensing for
archaeology and how it can be applied to ongoing archaeological fieldwork projects across …

This paper presents an innovative multisensor, multitemporal machine-learning approach
using remote sensing big data for the detection of archaeological mounds in Cholistan …

Although the history of automated archaeological object detection in remotely sensed data is
short, progress and emerging trends are evident. Among them, the shift from rule-based …

In his original paper on random forests, Breiman proposed two different decision tree
ensembles: one generated from “orthogonal” trees with thresholds on individual features in …

In this paper, we report the results of our work on automated detection of qanat shafts on the
Cold War-era CORONA Satellite Imagery. The increasing quantity of air and space-borne …

Human societies have been resha** the geomorphology of landscapes for thousands of
years, producing anthropogenic geomorphic features ranging from earthworks and …

The landscapes of the Near East show both the first settlements and the longest trajectories
of settlement systems. Mounding is a characteristic property of these settlement sites …

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) provides for the first time a near-global high-
resolution digital elevation model (DEM) with great advantages of homogeneous quality and …