Detection of neolithic settlements in thessaly (Greece) through multispectral and hyperspectral satellite imagery

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1167-1187

  Alexakis, Dimitrios ^a   Sarris, Apostolos ^b   Astaras, Theodoros ^a   Albanakis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral imagery; Neolithic; Remote sensing; Tells; Thessaly

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEATURES; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERIES; HYPERSPECTRAL SATELLITE; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; NEOLITHIC; TELLS; THESSALY;

IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; SURVEYS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 63849157421     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90201167     Document Type: Article

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