ANTH 003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moe Williams, Ikonos, Soil Horizon
9 May 2020
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Gis is the context in which we examine remote sensing. Satellite data, imagery created by space shuttle. Reflected back to sensor and records different frequencies. Each pixel is a sign of elevation value helps visualize the landscape. Multispectral satellite collecting data in visible and invisible. Invisible can be recorded in computer to see different things. Different combinations can highlight different features in landscape. Ikonos satellite imagery is much more high resolution satellite than landsatetm. You can see bright blue vs bright red. More common to find ruins in upland areas. You think of population as a relative number so you know that one area has twice as many as other one. Turned out to be an ancient maya road. Second pic: turned out to be nothing, that"s why you go check it out. The body of material and information that survives for archaeologists to study.
