A multi-sensor polarimetric analysis over archaeological sites

Author

Patruno, Joseph ; Dore, Nicole ; Crespi, Mattia ; Pottier, Eric

Author_Institution

Univ. of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

6805

Lastpage

6808

Abstract

The goal of the research is to carry out a new methodology for the study and the detection of surface and subsurface archaeological structures in the two UNESCO ancient cities of Gebel Barkal (Sudan) and Samarra (Iraq). The analysis is carried out by means of polarimetric data of two SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) sensors: RADARSAT-2 and ALOS-PALSAR. In this paper we present the preliminary results obtained by comparing similar incidence angle of ALOS-PALSAR (23.10° and 26.20°) and RADARSAT-2 (27.07°) images and, subsequently, comparing different incidence angle of RADARSAT-2 data with 27° and 45°, in order to find out the most suitable configuration for the detection of archaeological structures.

Keywords

archaeology; geophysical image processing; object detection; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; sensor fusion; synthetic aperture radar; ALOS-PALSAR; RADARSAT-2; SAR image; SAR sensor; UNESCO; multisensor polarimetric analysis; subsurface archaeological structure; surface detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352601

Filename

6352601