Application of geographic information technologies to historical landscape reconstruction and military terrain analysis of an american revolution battlefield: Preservation potential of historic lands in urbanized settings, boston, massachusetts, USA

Journal of Cultural Heritage

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 317-331

  Maio, Christopher V ^a   Tenenbaum, David E ^b   Brown, Craig J ^a   Mastone, Victor T ^c   Gontz, Allen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

American Revolution; Boston; Chelsea Creek; Geography; GIS; KOCOA; Landscape reconstruction; Preservation potential; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879785379     PISSN: 12962074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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