Ancient Maya Wetland Agriculture: New Insights from Ecological and Remote Sensing Research
Ancient Maya Wetland Agriculture: New Insights from Ecological and Remote Sensing Research
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古代玛雅湿地农业：生态和遥感研究的新见解
DOI：
10.1179/jfa.1989.16.1.87
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发表时间：
1989
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
B. Dahlin
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作者：
K. Pope;B. Dahlin
摘要 尽管声称在玛雅低地中部发现了古代玛雅运河，但我们对卫星和飞机图像的研究表明，运河集中在三个地区：伯利兹北部、墨西哥金塔纳罗奥州南部以及墨西哥坎佩切坎德拉里亚河上游及其支流沿线。早期根据机载雷达图像分析得出的关于危地马拉佩滕喀斯特洼地或巴霍斯小运河格子的报告尚未得到其他遥感数据或实地研究的验证。我们对同一机载图像和 Seasat 卫星雷达图像的分析表明，现有雷达图像的空间分辨率和散斑噪声使其不足以绘制小运河的晶格图案。然而，雷达图像和陆地卫星专题制图器图像在绘制大型运河地图时非常有用，在大多数情况下，大型运河与较小运河的网格相连。此外，我们对湿地土壤、植被和水文的分析表明……
Abstract Despite claims that ancient Maya canals are found throughout the central Maya Lowlands, our study of satellite and aircraft imagery indicates that canals are concentrated in three regions: northern Belize, southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, and along the upper Candelaria River and its tributaries in Campeche, Mexico. Earlier reports of lattices of small canals in the karstic depressions, or bajos, of Peten, Guatemala, based on the analysis of airborne radar imagery, have not been verified with other remote sensing data or by field research. Our analyses of this same airborne imagery and Seasat satellite radar imagery demonstrate that the spatial resolution of, and speckle noise in, existing radar imagery make it inadequate for mapping lattice patterns of small canals. Radar imagery and Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery were, however, useful in mapping large canals, which in most cases are connected to lattices of smaller canals. Furthermore, our analyses of wetland soils, vegetation, and hydrology conf...