Aircraft 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

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

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 limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any…

— David George Hogarth

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an…

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

— George Cayley

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

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape…

— Penelope Lively

When people initially think of the term 'space archaeologist,' they think, 'Oh, it's someone who uses satellites to look for alien settlements on Mars…

— Sarah Parcak