Satellite Archeology using spectral imaging

This year’s $1 million TED prize winner, Sarah Parcak, space archaeologist, was recently explaining spectral imaging and infrared imaging to Stephen Colbert. Her prize winning talk included an explanation of how she extracted archeological information, outlines of undiscovered ruins, pyramids and towns, from spectral changes in high-resolution NASA satellite imagery. Data treatments familiar to practitioners of … More Satellite Archeology using spectral imaging