Title :
Analysis of radar images of Angkor, Cambodia
Author :
Freeman, Anthony ; Hensley, Scott ; Moore, Elizabeth
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
During the 1996 AIRSAR Pacific Rim Deployment, data were collected over Angkor in Cambodia. The temples of Angkor date the succession of cities to the 9th-13th century AD, but little is known of its prehistoric habitation. A related area of archaeological debate has been the origin, spiritual meaning and use of the hydraulic constructions in the urban zone. The high resolution, multi-channel capability of AIRSAR, together with the unprecedentedly accurate topography provided by TOPSAR, offer identification and delineation of these features. Examples include previously unrecorded circular earthworks around circular village sites, detection of unrecorded earthwork dykes, reservoirs and canal features, and of temple sites located some distance from the main temple complex at Angkor
Keywords :
airborne radar; archaeology; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; 1996 AIRSAR Pacific Rim Deployment data; Angkor; Cambodia; archaeology; canals; circular earthworks; circular village sites; cities; earthwork dykes; feature delineation; feature identification; hydraulic constructions; main temple complex; prehistoric habitation; radar image analysis; reservoirs; temple sites; temples; topography; urban zone; Airborne radar; Cities and towns; Image analysis; Instruments; Irrigation; Laser radar; Radar imaging; Radar interferometry; Reservoirs; Spaceborne radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.771580
