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Active Satellite Sensors in Cultural Heritage Research: The Use of SAR for Archaeological Prospection
This paper provides an overview on the application of satellite synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) technology in archaeology. The growing developments of
space SAR technologies in terms of observational capabilities (spatial, spectral,
radiometric, and temporal coverage) had made the use of these technologies very
attractive for archaeological investigations. Although several achievements have
been made in recent years on the basis of pioneering efforts addressed to the assessment
of the potentiality of the L-, C-, and X-band SAR in archaeology, the full
capability of these technologies for archaeological site detection is still incompletely
evaluated until now. Moreover, significant advances are expected from the
most recent satellite data available at 25 cm in X-band (TerraSAR) and at 1 m in
multipolarized L-band (PALSAR). These enhanced characteristics, in terms of spatial
resolution and radiometric quality, take the most recent SAR technologies to a
new level for archaeological applications, addressed to object detection and target
recognition