Palmyra, the famous ancient caravan city in the Syrian dessert, offers unique and ideal conditions for the application of geophysical prospection methods because the archaeological remains are buried only by a thin layer of sand and the limestone walls offer a good physical contrast to the surrounding material. We performed integrated geophysical surveys by magnetometry, resistivity prospection, satellite radar and optical satellite images to get a detailed high-resolution plan of this important UNESCO World Heritage site. Today Palmyra mainly is known by its famous Roman ruins that are preserved still upstanding in wide parts, however in 1997/98 we were able to detect the hitherto unknown Hellenistic part of the city by magnetometry and prove the long time assumption of its location in the southern part of the town. A detailed map of its layout could be drawn after our results. Since 2011 we are surveying the whole city with the most high-resolution spaceborne sensors available at the moment: the optical satellites QuickBird and WorldView-2 and the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X. The recent analysis of these images provided further so far unknown buried archaeological structures.


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    Titel :

    Integrated geophysical prospection by high-resolution optical satellite images, Synthetic Aperture Radar and magnetometry at the example of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Palmyra (Syria)


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    2013 ; Moscow, Russia



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2012


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Deutsch




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