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Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC (2014)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T., Philip, G., Bradbury, J., Dunford, R., Donoghue, D., Galiatsatos, N., …Smith, S. (2014). Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC. Journal of World Prehistory, 27(1), 43-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-014-9072-2

This paper employs data from selected sample survey areas in the northern Fertile Crescent to demonstrate how initial urbanization developed along several pathways. The first, during the Late Chalcolithic period, was within a dense pattern of rural s... Read More about Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC.

New Microslice Technology for Hyperspectral Imaging (2013)
Journal Article
Content, R., Blake, S., Dunlop, C., Nandi, D., Sharples, R., Talbot, G., …Luke, P. (2013). New Microslice Technology for Hyperspectral Imaging. Remote Sensing, 5(3), 1204-1219. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs5031204

We present the results of a project to develop a proof of concept for a novel hyperspectral imager based on the use of advanced micro-optics technology. The technology gives considerably more spatial elements than a classic pushbroom which translates... Read More about New Microslice Technology for Hyperspectral Imaging.

The River Orontes in Syria and Turkey: downstream variation of fluvial archives in different crustal blocks (2012)
Journal Article
Bridgland, D., Westaway, R., Romieh, M., Candy, I., Daoud, M., Demir, T., …Whittaker, J. (2012). The River Orontes in Syria and Turkey: downstream variation of fluvial archives in different crustal blocks. Geomorphology, 165-166, 25-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.01.011

The geomorphology and Quaternary history of the River Orontes in western Syria and south-central Turkey have been studied using a combination of methods: field survey, differential GPS, satellite imagery, analysis of sediments to determine provenance... Read More about The River Orontes in Syria and Turkey: downstream variation of fluvial archives in different crustal blocks.

The Fragile Crescent Project (FCP): Analysis of Settlement Landscapes Using Satellite Imagery (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Galiatsatos, N., Wilkinson, T., Donoghue, D., & Philip, G. (2009). The Fragile Crescent Project (FCP): Analysis of Settlement Landscapes Using Satellite Imagery.

The Fragile Crescent Project (FCP) is analyzing the rise and decline of Bronze Age urban settlements and associated political and economic structures in the ancient Near East between ca. 3500 and 1200 BC. The Near East is a key area for urban develop... Read More about The Fragile Crescent Project (FCP): Analysis of Settlement Landscapes Using Satellite Imagery.

The shift from film to digital product: focus on CORONA imagery (2009)
Journal Article
Galiatsatos, N. (2009). The shift from film to digital product: focus on CORONA imagery. Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation, 251-260. https://doi.org/10.1127/0935-1221/2009/0020

This paper discusses the issue of the shift of USGS (United States Geological Survey) in providing a digital instead of a film product for the declassified imagery. The paper focuses on CORONA imagery. With the advent of computers and subsequently th... Read More about The shift from film to digital product: focus on CORONA imagery.

Assessment of sediment delivery from shallow landslides in upland terrain using 3D remote sensing. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Galiatsatos, N., Donoghue, D., Dong, L., & Warburton, J. (2008). Assessment of sediment delivery from shallow landslides in upland terrain using 3D remote sensing. In Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society Annual Conference (RSPSoc 2007): Challenges for Earth Observation: Scientific, Technical and Commercial. Proceedings of a meeting held 11-14 September 2007, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK (331-335)

The well-publicised floods in North Yorkshire on 19 June 2005 focussed attention on the devastating impact of flash floods in the UK uplands. The North Yorkshire floods were considered so severe that they prompted an emergency debate in Parliament (2... Read More about Assessment of sediment delivery from shallow landslides in upland terrain using 3D remote sensing..

High resolution elevation data derived from stereoscopic CORONA imagery with minimal ground control: an approach using IKONOS and SRTM data (2008)
Journal Article
Galiatsatos, N., Donoghue, D., & Philip, G. (2008). High resolution elevation data derived from stereoscopic CORONA imagery with minimal ground control: an approach using IKONOS and SRTM data. Photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing, 74(9), 1093-1106. https://doi.org/10.14358/pers.74.9.1093

The first space mission to provide stereoscopic imagery of the Earth’s surface was from the American CORONA spy satellite program from which it is possible to generate Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). CORONA imagery and derived DEMs are of most value... Read More about High resolution elevation data derived from stereoscopic CORONA imagery with minimal ground control: an approach using IKONOS and SRTM data.

CORONA satellite photography: an archaeological application from the Middle East (2002)
Journal Article
Philip, G., Donoghue, D., Beck, A., & Galiatsatos, N. (2002). CORONA satellite photography: an archaeological application from the Middle East. Antiquity, 76(291), 109-118. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00089869

The declassification of CORONA high-resolution space photography has made a valuable new resource available for the study of ancient landscapes. Using a recent case-study from Syria, examples are given of various ways in which CORONA imagery can sign... Read More about CORONA satellite photography: an archaeological application from the Middle East.