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::: Site Update, Archaeology Sites Section

A new Archeaology sites section has been created at the SD site that includes image studies of Wyoming, the irrigation works of the Anasazi in Chaco Canyon- New Mexico and the Modoc National Forest circles of California.  All image study pages include a Google Earth Placemark tour for all users of Google Earth.

A new lines network update has been made that contains a Google Earth Placemark tour of the anomalous linear features on the topography data.  This topographic image study includes a grid area off the coast of Ireland, a linear feature and grid features off the coast of California and an unusual linear anomaly off the coast of Australia.

A big shout out to A. A., Happy Birthday MarsProof! 
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::: Lost City of Arabia found with Satellite Imagery

A great story and technical explanation of the uses of Landsat satellite imagery to find an ancient city in Arabia called Ubar.  Graphics programs such as Photoshop are exceptional tools to analyze Landsat satellite imagery.  You can pick a color from a known geological or ruin area, and select only those color pixes for the entire image, just one example of the applications of color analysis for archaeological discovery.  The same process of examining threshold data can also be performed on a typical desktop computer with graphics software.  This article- Extracting Ruins in Angkor Region Using Satellite Image Data- describes an in depth study of color pixels to help expose unexcavated ruins using a color threshold technique which can also be performed using a good graphics program on a personal desktop computer. 

 

::: Ancient Observatories- Satellite Images Online- Space Imaging

Space Imaging has a great collection of ancient sites via satellite imagery at their online image gallery- Ancient Observatories The images in the collection are high resolution and unexcavated ruins can be seen at some of the sites around Mexico. Site list includes: Abu Simbel, Egypt; Angkor Wat, Cambodia; Chichen Itza, Mexico; Easter Island, Chile; Machu Picchu, Peru; and Mayapan, Mexico.