Analysis Quote by Sarah Parcak

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

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

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

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

— Stephen Hawking

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

— Miguel de Icaza

“Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it.”

— Rory Freedman

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

— Lise Meitner

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

— Ernst Mach

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

When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around and above…

— 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

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