The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You're actually… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features. — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
It's absolutely critical, you know, to train young men and women not just to find sites, but also to protect sites, especially in the… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
What satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago.… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share
