Airsar’s Contribution to Understanding the Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia – Objectives and Preliminary Findings from an Examination of Pacrim2 Datasets
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In September 2000 AIRSAR-TOPSAR data were acquired over the environment and cultural landscape of the World Heritage site of Angkor in Cambodia as part of a collaborative research project between APSARA (Royal Cambodian Government Agency responsible for Angkor), EFEO (Ecole Francaise d’Eextreme Orient) and the University of Sydney. Termed the Greater Angkor Project, additional support from the World Monuments Fund and the Mekong River Commission funded the acquisition of 3000 sq km of data as part of a total of 7000 sq km coverage of the western end of Lake Tonle Sap. These data provide the first comprehensive, consistent and detailed record of the whole of Angkor and its surrounding region. An enhancement in Figure 1 shows the
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