Archaeologist uses satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Mon, 05/12/2008 - 23:00

(Rochester Institute of Technology) Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help RIT archaeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past.

In a novel archaeological application, multi- and hyperspectral data will help build the most accurate and most detailed landscape map that exists of the southern state of Oaxaca, where the Zapotec people formed the first state-level and urban society in Mexico.

National Geographic funding will help look at how climate and vegetation patterns changed over time.

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