Aerial Quote by Sarah Parcak

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

'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

I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay and when…

— Thomas Ruff

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…

— Sarah Parcak

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot…

— Leonard Nimoy

In Egypt, I do survey work on the ground. That's really the most important part of using satellite images. You know, it helps us…

— Sarah Parcak

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast…

— Galen Rowell

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

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

So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The interesting thing…

— Mark Klett

We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests,…

— Sarah Parcak

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