Imaging The Hittite cemetery site with 3D half bird´s eye view of GPR data set in Sapinuva ancient city of the Hittite Empire (Corum-Turkey)

The aim of this study was to image a probable cemetery site of Hittite Empire, in ancient city of Sapinuva -Agilonu in Ortakoy (Çorum-Turkey), the most important holy religion area and the ancient capital city of Hittite Empire of üpougd>zx Anatolia, which is one of the most important historical sites of Turkey. A Ramac CU II GPR system and a 250 MHz shielded antennas have been employed over a 93×14 m area along parallel profiles spaced 0.50 m apart to measure data. The processed parallel profile data set was presented through a solid 3D view. Obtained traditional slices with the same axes on the map of the study site could not efficiently represent the subsurface. Therefore, arranging the view angles of the axes supplied half bird´s eye view of the 3D subset of the GPR data. Then the transparent 3D subsets of the data were obtained using true arranged opaque functions to the amplitude-colour range. Interactive half bird´s eye views of transparent 3D subsets provided satisfactory results to monitor very complex buried walls and relations amongst each other representing the probable cemeteries of the Hittite Empire family.