Title
The Measurement by Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) of Disturbance Within the Nasca World Heritage Site
Date Issued
01 August 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Maney Publishing
Abstract
In this paper we report on our use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) as a means of monitoring the Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana World Heritage Site in Peru, where the colossal ground drawings, popularly known as the Nasca Lines, are found. Our research to date indicates that the environment in which the Nasca geoglyphs are found, and the nature of the geoglyphs themselves, are suited perfectly for investigation by SAR. SAR also provides a new and valuable tool for understanding the human activities and natural processes that have damaged the geoglyphs and which, unchecked, will continue to do so in the future. Further, SAR can be used to categorize geoglyphs according to structural differences and similarities in ways that have heretofore not been possible, thereby serving as a basis for a geoglyph catalogue.
Start page
270
End page
286
Volume
17
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Humanidades Arqueología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84964603303
Source
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites
ISSN of the container
13505033
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