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Title Remote sensing in archaeology : an explicitly North American perspective / edited by Jay K. Johnson.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Based on presentations made at a workshop held in Biloxi, Miss. in 2002, preceding the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference.
"Published for the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Mississippi, the University of Mississippi Geoinformatics Center, and NASA Earth Science Applications Directorate at the Stennis Space Center."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / Jay K. Johnson -- The Current and Potential Role of Archaeogeophysics in Cultural Resource Management in the United States /J. J. Lockhart and Thomas J. Green -- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Remote Sensing Application in Cultural Resource Management Archaeology / Jay K. Johnson and Bryan S. Haley -- Airborne Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis / Marco Giardino and Bryan S. Haley -- Conductivity Survey: A Survival Manual / R. Berle Clay -- Resistivity Survey / Lewis Somers -- Ground-Penetrating Radar / Lawrence B. Conyers -- Magnetic Susceptibility / Rinita A. Dalan -- Magnetometry: Nature's Gift to Archaeology / Kenneth L. Kvamme -- Data Processing and Presentation / Kenneth L. Kvamme -- Multiple Methods Surveys: Case Studies / Kenneth L. Kvamme, Jay K. Johnson, and Bryan S. Haley -- Ground Truthing the Results of Geophysical Surveys / Michael L. Hargrave -- A Comparative Guide to Applications / Jay K. Johnson.
Summary NASA is composed of a vast and varied network of scientists across the academic spectrum involved in research and development programs that have wide application on planet Earth. This book, using case studies, reveals how the broad application of remote sensing and geophysical techniques is altering the usual conduct of dirt archaeology.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Archaeology -- Remote sensing.
Archaeology -- Remote sensing.
Archaeology -- North America -- Remote sensing.
Archaeology.
North America.
Remote sensing.
Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Remote sensing.
Indians of North America -- Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- North America.
Excavations (Archaeology)
North America -- Antiquities -- Remote sensing.
Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Johnson, Jay K.
University of Mississippi. Center for Archaeological Research.
John C. Stennis Space Center.
University of Mississippi. Geoinformatics Center.
Other Form: Print version: Remote sensing in archaeology. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006 9780817353438 0817353437 (DLC) 2005054863 (OCoLC)61881210
ISBN 9780817380915 (electronic book)
0817380914 (electronic book)
9780817353438 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0817353437 (paperback ; alkaline paper)