New ways to extract archaeological information from hyperspectral pixels

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 84-96

  Doneus, Michael ^a,b   Verhoeven, Geert ^a,b   Atzberger, Clement ^c   Wess, Michael ^c   Ruš, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LBI for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Airborne imaging spectroscopy; Archaeological prospection; Distribution fitting; High resolution; MATLAB ; Red edge inflection point (REIP)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; PIXEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84907164543     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.023     Document Type: Article

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