Integrated GIS, remote sensing and geomorphologic approaches for the reconstruction of the landscape habitation of Thessaly during the neolithic period

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-100

  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

DEM; GIS; Neolithic; Remote sensing; Settlements; Thessaly

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NEOLITHIC; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

GREECE; THESSALY;

EID: 78049276277     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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