(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.