Succeeding CORONA: declassified HEXAGON intelligence imagery for archaeological and historical research. (June 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Succeeding CORONA: declassified HEXAGON intelligence imagery for archaeological and historical research. (June 2022)
- Main Title:
- Succeeding CORONA: declassified HEXAGON intelligence imagery for archaeological and historical research
- Authors:
- Hammer, Emily
FitzPatrick, Mackinley
Ur, Jason - Abstract:
- Abstract: Abstract : Over the past 25 years, CORONA satellite imagery has become an integral part of archaeological research, especially for arid, sparsely vegetated regions such as the Middle East. Since 2020, a new archive of satellite imagery gathered by the US spy satellite programme that succeeded CORONA—HEXAGON—has become widely available for download via the United States Geological Survey. This photographic archive has enormous potential for archaeological research. Here, the authors seek to lower the barriers to accessing and using this imagery by detailing the background, technical specifications and history of the HEXAGON archive. Four case studies illustrate the benefits and limitations of HEXAGON imagery for archaeological and historical research in the Middle East and beyond.
- Is Part Of:
- Antiquity. Volume 96:Number 387(2022)
- Journal:
- Antiquity
- Issue:
- Volume 96:Number 387(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 96, Issue 387 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 96
- Issue:
- 387
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0096-0387-0000
- Page Start:
- 679
- Page End:
- 695
- Publication Date:
- 2022-06
- Subjects:
- Middle East -- remotely sensed imagery -- HEXAGON -- CORONA -- landscape archaeology
Archaeology -- Periodicals
Antiquities -- Periodicals
930.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://antiquity.ac.uk/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.15184/aqy.2022.22 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0003-598X
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