@article{cae6727701fc4cb29b4024de6a4eb9c0,
title = "Evaluating the use of IKONOS satellite imagery in lowland Maya settlement archaeology",
abstract = "This article presents an extensive evaluation, in several contiguous or near-contiguous areas, of the viability of IKONOS satellite imagery in detecting sub-canopy Maya settlement in Peten, Guatemala. Initial research in and around San Bartolo, Guatemala, led to the conclusion that IKONOS imagery could be highly effective in detecting and predicting Maya settlement of the Preclassic and Classic periods, in zones of dense occupation near swampy lowlands known as bajos. The pioneering methods at San Bartolo are applied here to other regions in the Maya lowlands, but with mixed or unpromising results. Preliminary evaluation indicates that local climate, geology, hydrology, topography, pedology, and vegetation differ dramatically in these other regions, with consequences for wider application of the settlement signature discerned at San Bartolo. Possible reasons for these difficulties are offered in this paper, along with ways to strengthen the use of multispectral imagery in archaeological survey of tropical forests.",
keywords = "Climate, IKONOS, Maya, Remote sensing, Settlement, Soil, Vegetation",
author = "Garrison, {Thomas G.} and Houston, {Stephen D.} and Charles Golden and Takeshi Inomata and Zachary Nelson and Jessica Munson",
note = "Funding Information: Garrison would like to thank William Saturno (Boston University), Thomas Sever, Daniel Irwin, and Burgess Howell (all from Marshall Space and Flight Center, NASA) for including him in the original San Bartolo research and for providing imagery for this article. Imagery over El Zotz was acquired with the assistance of a FAMSI grant (#07055). The data over Ceibal and the Sierra del Lacandon was purchased with NSF grant BCS-0406472 (PI: R. Sharer, Co-PIs: D. Comer, C. Golden, T. Inomata, and K. Pope). IKONOS data for the Sierra del Lacandon were acquired in collaboration with Douglas Comer. Houston and Nelson participated in this work with assistance from Brown University, Kenneth Woolley, and Spencer Kirk, and the permission of the Instituto de Antropolog{\'i}a e Historia de Guatemala, and with fellowship support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the American Philosophical Society. Support for research at Bayal and surrounding areas in the Sierra del Lacandon by Golden and colleagues came from FAMSI (Grants #2020, 05027), the National Geographic Society (Grants #7575-04 and 763-04), Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, the Kaplan Fund through the World Monuments Fund, and the Norman Fund and the Jane's Fund at Brandeis University. This paper benefited from correspondence with Nicholas Dunning prior to writing as well as important revisions by Timothy Beach and two anonymous reviewers.",
year = "2008",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/j.jas.2008.05.003",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "35",
pages = "2770--2777",
journal = "Journal of Archaeological Science",
issn = "0305-4403",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "10",
}