They were designed to bear out nation of war machine espionage as well as ended upward becoming 1 of the greatest allies of cultural heritage. They were created past times the Italian authorities as well as ended upward working for a Castilian university. Although, inward their novel mission, inward an most poetic way, they hold a sure as shooting link to their Italian origin. In the end, the network of satellites dubbed COSMO-SkyMed (COnstellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) has analyzed 49 km2 inside the territory containing an ancient Roman city: Mellaria, located inside the township of Fuente Obejuna, inward the say of Cordoba, whose habitants are nonetheless called melarienses [Mellarians] today.
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| View of the Roman citadel of Mellaria [Credit: Antonio Monterroso Checa] |
The Upper Guadiato Archaeological Ager Mellariensis projection headed past times University of Cordoba professor Antonio Monterroso Checa has been working on the Mellaria analysis for the past times 2 years, using the constellation of 4 radar satellites founded past times the Italian Space Agency as well as Ministry of Defense. Its commecial purpose inward Kingdom of Spain is managed past times E-Geos-Telespazio Iberica, a Leonardo/Thales aerospace partnership company.
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| View of the Roman citadel of Mellaria [Credit: Antonio Monterroso Checa] |
Monterroso explains that, inward Spain, the Mellaria projection is pioneering the application of this technology scientific discipline to the analysis of its territory. The results of its purpose were late published inward
Archaeological Prospection, as well as cause got allowed for detecting invisible moist as well as floodable areas or then the city, groundwater time period that passed through Mellaria, a possible stretch of the Roman route from Cordoba to Merida nearby, visual as well as topographical recovery of lost or destroyed stretches of medieval roads betwixt the towns of Fuente Obejuna as well as Belmez as well as betwixt the villages of La Granjuela as well as El Hoyo, as well as fifty-fifty the evolution of some crops inward the area.
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Digital Model of the RGB Terrain of the surroundings of the Roman urban centre of Mellaria
[Credit: Obejuna-Córdoba] |
Few archeology sites inward the public cause got worked amongst this satellite constellation. Most of the ones that cause got were analyzed past times the Italian-Chinese consortium, made upward of the Istituto di Metodologie per l´Analisi Ambientale at Italy's National Research Council as well as the Institute of Remote Sensing as well as Digital basis at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In fact, the Italian pennisula as well as Communist People's Republic of China are, to date, the areas amongst the highest coverage of images as well as applications from an archaeological perspective. Apart from those places, the Saqqara pyramids inward Egypt, the Incan site of Pachacamac inward Republic of Peru as well as the ancient cities of Sabratha (Libya) as well as Hierapolis (Turkey) are other examples of the few places where patrimonial proof was flora using this picture system. The territory of the Roman urban centre Mellaria tin directly last added to this curt listing of cultural heritage.
CSK missions These radars, designed past times the Italian military, bear out other civil missions apart from archaeology. In fact, the COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) network is too used to monitor basis inward gild to foreclose emergencies as well as contend environmental as well as humanitarian risks, such every bit observing human trafficking inward the Mediterranean.
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| Artistic persuasion of COSMO Sky MED [Credit: Thales Alenia Space] |
CSK offers the best resolution inward Europe as well as the public for civil use, at 1m/pixel spatial resolution. In this sense, Professor Monterroso explains that "in a nation of war machine aspect, this technology scientific discipline tin uncovering objects fifty-fifty inward sandstorms at a precisión of 0.40 m/pixel. That agency a five-meter-long object tin last analyzed pretty precisely." This final facial expression "is a huge accomplishment considering that these satellites operate from a distance of 620 km." In addition, CSK is able to cause got 1,800 images a solar daytime as well as monitor a surface expanse of 400,000 foursquare kilometers inward xv days at a spatial resolution of 3m/pixel. CSK shares information amongst the French optical platform Pleiades as well as amongst NASA, forming 1 of the most powerful consortiums of basis observation inward the world.
This written report is framed inward the Ager Mellariensis project, financed past times the European Regional Development Fund as well as the National RDI Programme for Research Aimed at the Challenges of Society 2016 of the Ministry of Economy, Industry as well as Competitiveness.
Source: University of Cordoba [July 27, 2018] Sumber http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com
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