Remote Sensing Techniques for Cultural Heritage: New Developments and Applications for Archaeological Studies
A Special Issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) belonging to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2026 | Viewed by 781
Editor
Interests: geomatics; photogrammetry; UAV; laser scanning; 3D survey; remote sensing; HBIM; scan-to-BIM; cultural heritage
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Dear Colleagues,
For several years, remote sensing has been a fundamental tool for studies and research in the field of cultural heritage. In particular, numerous applications have been developed for archaeological investigations and for documenting sites and areas of cultural interest. Furthermore, remote sensing has also been used to protect and safeguard both natural and man-made cultural heritage. In fact, as is well known, cultural heritage sites around the world are under considerable stress due to a number of factors, including pollution, industrial risks, natural phenomena and events related to wars or conflicts. In this context, remote sensing has always been a key technique for land monitoring and, more specifically, for monitoring and documenting cultural heritage.
Remote sensing tools provide the opportunity to study and document areas that are difficult to access, as well as to effectively carry out cultural and landscape heritage conservation actions. Remote sensing is an essential tool for the study of cultural heritage due to the ability to acquire multitemporal images using satellite sensors with increasingly higher geometric resolutions, the availability of historical data series and the near-global coverage. These capabilities are further enhanced by the ability to acquire data from sensors mounted on aerial close-range platforms (such as UAS) and by the use of new image processing procedures based on artificial intelligence algorithms, such as machine learning and deep learning.
This Special Issue aims to collect scientific contributions related to new applications and developments in the use of remote sensing techniques in archaeology. Contributions based on satellite imagery and data acquired from nearby aerial platforms (such as drones) will be accepted. Specific data processing issues will also be welcomed.
Dr. Mauro Lo Brutto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- cultural heritage
- earth observation
- archaeological sites
- satellite imagery
- multi-temporal analysis
- optical images
- multispectral images
- hyperspectral images
- UAS
- 3D documentation
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