Spaceborne Remote Sensing for Near Eastern Archaeology: A case study on archaeological site-detection in Jordan's Black Desert

The Black Desert in the east of Jordan has recently gained attention in the archaeological domain due to the discovery of pre-historical structures and a vast amount of rockart depictions. The Department of Near Eastern Archaeology of the University of Leiden has started investigating the cultural developments within this area from c. 1000 BC to...

Remotely sensed small reservoir monitoring: A Bayesian approach

A new semi-supervised `growing' Bayesian classifier for small reservoir delineation has been developed and is tested with Radarsat-2 data for reservoirs in the semi-arid Upper East Region of Ghana. The classifier reduces the confusion error to the land-water boundary pixels, can readily be extended with auxiliary information and has a high...