Aerial reconnaissance continues to be a vital tool for landscape-oriented archaeological research. Although a variety of remote sensing platforms operate within the earth’s atmosphere, the majority of aerial archaeological information is still derived from oblique photographs collected during observer-directed reconnaissance flights, a prospection approach which has dominated archaeological aer...

the paper is concerning preliminary survey of qaradaq region of eastern azerbaijan in view of ecological, archaeological and ethnographic perspectives. the region under study is poor in fertile soil, underpopulated settlements and nomadic ubas being its dominant landscape. indeed, archaeological investigations show the lack of considerable archaeological records up to the iron age. the main sub...

In the spring of 2012 an archaeological survey was conducted within the Rayen region in order to explore all the archaeological periods in this region and document all archaeological settlement patterns of this region. In general, 52 archaeological sites were discovered and documented which included all prehistoric and historic sites. Among these sites, three of them seem to belong to the Paleo...

D.C. Comer and M.J. Harrower, Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space, SpringerBriefs in Archaeology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6074-9_18, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract Nearly all Near Eastern surveys have employed some form of satellite remote sensing, although usually at coarse resolution or for very limited study areas only, and nearly always in a qualitative fas...