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Recent trends and long-standing problems in archaeological remote sensing
The variety and sophistication of data sources, sensors, and platforms employed in archaeological remote sensing have increased significantly over the past decade. Projects incorporating data from UAV surveys, regional and research-driven lidar surveys, the uptake of hyperspectral imaging, the launch of high-temporal revisit satellites, the advent of multi-sensor rigs for geophysical survey, and increased use of structure from motion mean that more archaeologists are engaging with remote sensing than ever. These technological advances continue to drive research in the specialist community and provide reasons for optimism about future applications, but many social and technical obstacles to the integration of remote sensing into archaeological research and heritage management remain. This article addresses the challenges of contemporary archaeological remote sensing by briefly reviewing trends and then focusing on providing a critical overview of the main structural problems. The discussion here concentrates on topics that have dominated the discourse in recent archaeological literature and featured prominently in ongoing fieldwork for the past decade across three broad segments of landscape archaeology: data collection in the field, the current state of data access and archives, and processing and interpretation
Hyperspectral Image Classification -- Traditional to Deep Models: A Survey for Future Prospects
Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) has been extensively utilized in many real-life
applications because it benefits from the detailed spectral information
contained in each pixel. Notably, the complex characteristics i.e., the
nonlinear relation among the captured spectral information and the
corresponding object of HSI data make accurate classification challenging for
traditional methods. In the last few years, Deep Learning (DL) has been
substantiated as a powerful feature extractor that effectively addresses the
nonlinear problems that appeared in a number of computer vision tasks. This
prompts the deployment of DL for HSI classification (HSIC) which revealed good
performance. This survey enlists a systematic overview of DL for HSIC and
compared state-of-the-art strategies of the said topic. Primarily, we will
encapsulate the main challenges of traditional machine learning for HSIC and
then we will acquaint the superiority of DL to address these problems. This
survey breakdown the state-of-the-art DL frameworks into spectral-features,
spatial-features, and together spatial-spectral features to systematically
analyze the achievements (future research directions as well) of these
frameworks for HSIC. Moreover, we will consider the fact that DL requires a
large number of labeled training examples whereas acquiring such a number for
HSIC is challenging in terms of time and cost. Therefore, this survey discusses
some strategies to improve the generalization performance of DL strategies
which can provide some future guidelines