NDLI: Detection of underground remains by remote sensing and geophysics

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Peng Jia Yueping Nie Guoding Song
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Scientific History and Archaeology, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Guoding Song) \|\| Joint Laboratory of Remote Sensing Archaeology, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications CAS, Beijing, China (Peng Jia; Yueping Nie)
Abstract	Shenmingpu Site, located in Henan Province in China, will be a part of the flooded areas during the magnificent South-North Water Transfer Project. According to previous records and land surface investigations, there may be some remains of underground burial so it is urgent to conduct a rescue excavation. Due to a large size of the site, it will cost high expense, substantial labor and time if we totally rely on traditional methods to detect them. Both remote sensing and geophysics are powerful tools for detecting surface and underground archaeological information, especially when they are combined. Remote sensing is useful in large-scale observation and detection when the remains are buried not very deep and make the soil or vegetation covering them different from the surrounding in physical or chemical appearance, which makes discrepant features appear on satellite imageries; geophysics can detect the underground structural compositions of small-scale areas based on the differences of density or resistivity. Multi-temporal CBERS-02 images were used to find the anomaly in the large protected area because the winter wheat planted above underground burial matured later than the surrounding. For the anomalous area on the images, two geophysical prospecting methods, the natural electric field method and high-density resistivity method, were conducted to validate the anomaly. After an in-situ excavation on the chosen anomalous ground, a group of graves including brick-chamber graves and shaft graves were unearthed.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	1183017
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424473014
e-ISBN	9781424473038
DOI	10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5568129
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-06-18
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Archaeology Geology Land surface Underground burial Geophysics Conductivity Soil Grave Cultural differences Electric fields Remote sensing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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