Established academic figures in the field. Affiliations link to each researcher's institution.
Sarah Parcak
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The "space archaeologist." TED Prize winner, founder of GlobalXplorer. The discipline's most public face. Trained as an archaeologist; applied satellite imagery to Egyptian pyramid identification.
Tom Sever
Formerly NASA Marshall
Pioneered satellite-archaeology applications inside the US space program. Led work on Maya environmental archaeology.
Damian Evans
École française d'Extrême-Orient
LiDAR work that mapped Angkor's true extent — and with it, the scale of the medieval Khmer urban world.
William Saturno
Boston University (formerly UNH)
Maya remote sensing, including the murals at San Bartolo.
Jesse Casana
Declassified CORONA imagery for Mesopotamian and Levantine sites. Runs the CORONA Atlas project.
Tim Beach & Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
University of Texas at Austin · Geography
LiDAR-driven Maya environmental archaeology in Belize and Guatemala. Multi-year NSF-funded fieldwork.