Spectral sensitivity of ALOS, ASTER, IKONOS, LANDSAT and SPOT satellite imagery intended for the detection of archaeological crop marks

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 351-372

  Agapiou, Athos ^a   Alexakis, Dimitrios D ^a   Hadjimitsis, Diofantos G ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

archaeological remains; crop mark detection; RSR filters; spectral sensitivity; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CROPS; INFRARED DEVICES; REFLECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; VEGETATION;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL CROP MARKS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS; BURIED ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS; CROP MARKS; NORMALISED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; RELATIVE SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ALOS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ASTER; IKONOS; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPOT;

EID: 84897469259     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2012.674159     Document Type: Article

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