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Combining Sentinel 2A Timeseries, Lidar Data and Archaeological Prospection for the Study of Ancient Roads and Poblational Pattern in Right Side of Guadalén River, (Vilches, Spain)
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: Received: 12 February 2024 / Approved: 13 February 2024 / Online: 13 February 2024 (12:35:16 CET)
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Ortiz Villarejo, A.J.; Gutiérrez, L.M. Combining Sentinel 2A Timeseries, Lidar Data and Archaeological Prospection for the Study of Ancient Roads and Poblational Pattern in Right Side of Guadalén River, (Vilches, Spain). Preprints2024, 2024020727. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0727.v1
Ortiz Villarejo, A.J.; Gutiérrez, L.M. Combining Sentinel 2A Timeseries, Lidar Data and Archaeological Prospection for the Study of Ancient Roads and Poblational Pattern in Right Side of Guadalén River, (Vilches, Spain). Preprints 2024, 2024020727. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0727.v1
Ortiz Villarejo, A.J.; Gutiérrez, L.M. Combining Sentinel 2A Timeseries, Lidar Data and Archaeological Prospection for the Study of Ancient Roads and Poblational Pattern in Right Side of Guadalén River, (Vilches, Spain). Preprints2024, 2024020727. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0727.v1
APA Style
Ortiz Villarejo, A.J., & Gutiérrez, L.M. (2024). Combining Sentinel 2A Timeseries, Lidar Data and Archaeological Prospection for the Study of Ancient Roads and Poblational Pattern in Right Side of Guadalén River, (Vilches, Spain). Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0727.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Ortiz Villarejo, A.J. and Luis M. Gutiérrez. 2024 "Combining Sentinel 2A Timeseries, Lidar Data and Archaeological Prospection for the Study of Ancient Roads and Poblational Pattern in Right Side of Guadalén River, (Vilches, Spain)" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0727.v1
Abstract
This paper shows the firsts results of a methodological approach in which Remote Sensing technologies (Satellite imagery and LiDAR) combined with Least Cost Path algorithm on GIS are being tested like tools to overcome locally-based interpretations about populational patterns and communication routes during Flavian municipality in the Comarca de El Condado region. The identification of fourteen hypothetical communication routes between already known archaeological sites thanks to a recent archaeological prospection, and the confirmation of three sections of them and a new archaeological site demonstrate that the combined use of the aforementioned technics has a very useful to delve more deeply, more widely and at a variety of different scales into the relation between the twelve known/selected Early Roman Empire sites and the surrounding landscape in the right bank of Guadalén River. It is expected that, in next phases, this methodological approach will allow us to go deeper in analysing and understanding spatial distribution, exploitation, and interrelation between different Early Roman Empire sites, helping us to fill the aforementioned gaps in our understanding of the archaeological continuum in the region reducing time and costs.
Keywords
remote sensing; lidar; satellite; least cost path; roman empire; GIS
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Archaeology
Copyright:
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