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

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2572

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.771580

Filename

771580