Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

It has to be stress that your amplified and edited version of the paper on the identification of a new temple in Paestum is in my view fully acceptable and should be published in the journal Remote Sensing. I appreciate that you followed also my recommendations which mostly concerned the (English) language mistakes and inaccuracies.

Author Response

Reply: We thank the reviewer for her/his review work, the positive opinion about our work and the appreciation of our revision efforts to improve the previous version.

Reviewer 2 Report

The Authors have carefully addressed all my previous comments and suggestions, and they improved the manuscript accordingly. In particular, they added many technical details about materials and methods (magnetometry and GPR) as well as parameters of the processing techniques. In my opinion, this is a well done and interesting paper, which definitely deserves publication.

 

Author Response

Reply: We thank the reviewer for her/his review work, the positive opinion about our work and the appreciation of our revision efforts to improve the previous version.

Reviewer 3 Report

It is a perfect multimethod geophysical investigation performed under complex archaeological-environment situations. I suppose that this study must be analyzed by archaeogeophysical students as a sample. In the text of paper (attached) you can find some minor remarks. The general opinion - this paper is ready for publication.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Reply: We thank the reviewer for her/his review work, the  very positive opinion about our work and the very useful editorial suggestions.

We have followed all the suggestions (minor editorial remarks) of the reviewer and also included the suggested reference, which is numbered as [27] in the reference list (“References” Section).

Reviewer 4 Report

The paper entitled as "The discovery of a buried Temple in Paestum: the advantages of the geophysical multi-sensor application" indicates an interesting case study were integrated ground geophysical surveys have been contacted in a famous archaeological site of Italy. 

While the processing of geophysical data is not novel for archaeological research, both the integration as well as the importance of the case study and the final outcomes, makes this paper quite interesting. Overall, as the authors state, such "holistic" approches, blended with archaeological needs and cultural heritage management can be further developed and designed in the near future.

I recommend the paper for publications, please the authors to have a look at the references style. Also, other remote sensing technologies could be briefly outlined in the introduction part, but this is up to the authors to decide.

Author Response

Reply: Reply: We thank the reviewer for the very positive opinion about our work and the very useful  suggestions, which have allowed  to improve the present version of the manuscript.

According to the comment “Also, other remote sensing technologies could be briefly outlined in the introduction part, but this is up to the authors to decide.”, we have added in the introduction (at the lines 42-45) the paragraph

“Further, their effectiveness can be improved by geophysical electrical resistivity methods able, despite the lower resolution, to reconstruct the paleogeological features of the investigated archaeological scenarios and identify archaeological buried structures placed at depths not reachable by MAG and GPR [7-8].”

where, we discuss about the integration, not necessary in the present work, between MAG, GPR and Electrical Resistivity Tomography. The new references [7] and [8] are listed below

[7] Pascale, S.; Bellanova, J.; Losasso, L.; Perrone, A.; Giocoli, A.; Piscitelli, S.; Murgante, B.; Sdao, F. Geomorphological Fragility and Mass Movements of the Archaeological Area of “Torre di Satriano” (Basilicata, Southern Italy). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014, 8582. 495-510. 10.1007/978-3-319-09147-1_36,.

[8] Masini, N.; Capozzoli, L.; Chen, P.; Chen, F.; Romano, G.; Lu, P.; Tang, P.; Sileo, M.; Ge, Q.; Lasaponara, R. Towards an operational use of Remote Sensing in Archaeology in Henan (China): Archaeogeophysical investigations, approach and results in Kaifeng, Remote Sens., 2017, 9, 809.

In addition, we have also revised and corrected few mistakes of the reference style (see the "References" Section) .