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Satellite Remote Sensing of Archaeological Vegetation Signatures in Coastal West Africa.

This article discusses how archaeological sites in Sierra Leone, and by extension much of West Africa, can be identified through vegetation patterns (vegetation signatures) detectable in very high-resolution (VHR) multispectral satellite imagery. Settlement sites typically have a differing pattern o...

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Published in:African Archaeological Review Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 163 - 183
Main Author: Reid, Sean
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jun2016
Subjects:
Remote sensing
Archaeological excavations
Landscapes
Africa
Sierra Leone
West Africa
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