Atlas and Satellite data

Feb 18, 2006 Alun Science, The Past 1 Comment Archaeology, Mapping, Satellite data, Satellite imagery

I’ve found that satel­lite data is get­ting cheaper. Eur­im­age are selling archived Quick­sat data for $17/km2, though the min­imum order is 25km2, so not an impulse buy yet. But it may soon become feas­ible to order satel­lite imagery of a site as it’s dug which could lead to fas­cin­at­ing things.

I was inter­ested as I was try­ing to find Catal­hoyuk on Google Earth. I even­tu­ally found coordin­ates via the ArchAt­las pro­ject. There’s a fant­astic idea bur­ied away at the bot­tom of the menu on the left side. You can get ArchAt­las points on World­Wind or Google Earth, includ­ing Çatal­höyük over­lays as .kml files for Google Earth. How amaz­ing is that? They also have a nice gal­lery of sites seen through Google Earth.

I’ve lost the rest of the day now as I’ll be play­ing with this.