Thursday, April 4, 2013

Samarra, Iraq


Radarsat-2 entropy image and archaeological map over the octagonal city plan of part of ancient Samarra, located about 130 km north of Baghdad, Iraq. These results were found by Nicole Dore using the remote sensing technique Polarimetric SAR in a collaboration between Italy’s La Sapienza and France’s Rennes 1 universities.

Image credit: Satellite image: VigiSAT; Map: A. Northedge, 2007 The Historical Topography of Samarra. Samarra studies I.

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