The use of non-invasive sensing techniques to detect, map, and analyse archaeological features without excavation. The discipline is roughly a century old — it began with aerial photography after WWI — and has been transformed in the last twenty-five years by satellite imagery, LiDAR, and computational analysis.
Sections
Core methods
A quick reference. Each row is a sensing modality, what it's good for, and a representative application.
Read →Landmark applications
Three breakthroughs that established the discipline as transformative rather than supplementary.
Read →Named practitioners
Established academic figures in the field. Affiliations link to each researcher's institution.
Read →GEOINT and IC crossover
The crossover from intelligence-community imagery analysis to archaeological remote sensing is real, but harder to document at the individual level than the academic lineage above. What can be said with confidence:
Read →Where the field is concentrated
The discipline lives in a small set of academic departments, federal-adjacent institutions, and professional societies.
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