A Remote Sensing Approach for Mapping the Development of Ancient Water Management in the Near East
A Remote Sensing Approach for Mapping the Development of Ancient Water Management in the Near East
复制标题
绘制近东古代水资源管理发展的遥感方法
作者：
Louise Rayne;D. Donoghue
我们提出了一种新的方法，利用遥感记录和重建整个北方美索不达米亚，现代农业和战争的考古遗迹的生存和现代卫星图像中的可见性产生了严重影响的地区古代水管理的痕迹。然而，对20世纪60年代和70年代初解密的立体间谍卫星数据的分析和解释揭示了古代水管理系统的痕迹。我们处理了卫星图像，以方便图像的解释，并使用摄影测量重建水力通道。我们的研究结果代表了整个北方美索不达米亚的水资源管理功能的第一个全面的地图的时期约。公元前1200年至公元1500年。特别是，这表明在早期伊斯兰时期，灌溉在整个地区都很普遍，包括传统上被认为是“雨养”的地区。然而，我们发现，很大比例的古运河系统已被损坏或摧毁的世纪的变化，农业实践和土地利用。有鉴于此，迫切需要记录这些迅速消失的水管理系统，这些系统是古代农业景观的组成部分，也是强大国家的基础。
We present a novel approach that uses remote sensing to record and reconstruct traces of ancient water management throughout the whole region of Northern Mesopotamia, an area where modern agriculture and warfare has had a severe impact on the survival of archaeological remains and their visibility in modern satellite imagery. However, analysis and interpretation of declassified stereoscopic spy satellite data from the 1960s and early 1970s revealed traces of ancient water management systems. We processed satellite imagery to facilitate image interpretation and used photogrammetry to reconstruct hydraulic pathways. Our results represent the first comprehensive map of water management features across the entirety of Northern Mesopotamia for the period ca. 1200 BC to AD 1500. In particular, this shows that irrigation was widespread throughout the region in the Early Islamic period, including within the zone traditionally regarded as “rain-fed”. However, we found that a high proportion of the ancient canal systems had been damaged or destroyed by 20th century changes to agricultural practices and land use. Given this, there is an urgent need to record these rapidly vanishing water management systems that were an integral part of the ancient agricultural landscape and that underpinned powerful states.
影响因子：
4
作者：
E. Xoplaki;D. Fleitmann;J. Luterbacher;S. Wagner;J. Haldon;E. Zorita;Ioannis Telelis;A. Toreti;A. Izdebski
通讯作者：
E. Xoplaki;D. Fleitmann;J. Luterbacher;S. Wagner;J. Haldon;E. Zorita;Ioannis Telelis;A. Toreti;A. Izdebski
近东青铜时代（公元前 3000 年至 1200 年）作物生长条件的变化：稳定碳同位素证据
影响因子：
2.8
作者：
Bryson;Pustovoytov
通讯作者：
Pustovoytov