Infrared Satellite Imagery Archaeology
Satellite imagery can note those subtle temperature differences and show us where unexplored chambers might be located.
Infrared satellite imagery archaeology. She ordered infrared satellite imagery of the tweedy green and brown fields. What looks like red in the picture is actually shortwave infrared. Sarah parcak is a space archaeologist. Explore the world in real time launch web map in new window noaa satellite maps latest 3d scene this high resolution imagery is provided by geostationary weather satellites permanently stationed more than 22 000 miles above the earth.
For the second image we added some of the invisible bands. The two images above show nasa satellite imagery of a part of the valley the image on the left is unprocessed while the image on the right has gone through thermal infrared processing. The two images to the left show the same area in australia with a river and salt pan. After some computer processing a bright pink line.
Warmest lowest clouds are shown in white. Satellite archaeology is an emerging field of archaeology that uses high resolution satellites with thermal and infrared capabilities to pinpoint potential sites of interest in the earth around a meter or so in depth. The infrared light used by these satellites have longer wavelengths than that of visible light and are therefore capable of. Download imagery via the maps below.
Welcome to the 21st century world of space archaeology in which culturally important ruins can be spotted and decoded via high resolution images captured by earth orbiting satellites. The first image shows the area the way a human would see it. To launch a. The network of streets and houses of tanis are completely invisible at ground level and yet using infrared satellite images parcak was able to show the massive extent of the ancient settlement.
Coldest highest clouds are displayed in shades of yellow red and purple. The united states satellite images displayed are infrared ir images. Use this web map to zoom in on real time weather patterns developing around the world. We combined landsat s red green and blue bands to make the image.