Rosa Cuesta's research while affiliated with Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology and other places

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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones or RPA) in archaeology has expanded significantly over the last twenty years. Improvements in terms of the reliability, size, and manageability of these aircraft have been largely complemented by the high resolution and spectral bands provided by the sensors of the different cameras th...
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This article presents the first results obtained from the use of high-resolution images from the SAR-X sensor of the PAZ satellite platform. These are in result of the application of various radar image-treatment techniques, with which we wanted to carry out a non-invasive exploration of areas of the archaeological site of Clunia (Burgos, Spain). T...
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The Roman city of Clunia (nowadays the Spanish province of Burgos) became the capital of the Tarraconensis conventus with the Augustan provincial reform, which provided a major boost for its urban development. The suitability of the city's location is evident by the fact it was built on a plateau concealing an underground karst cave that provided d...
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The construction of the Aswan Dam put an end to a form of relationship between people and the environment that had its origin in the pre-Pharaonic period. The annual Nile flood had been tamed and managed for centuries by the societies of the Nile delta. However, by the nineteenth century, attempts to modernize Egypt according to Western standards l...
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The construction of the Aswan Dam put an end to a form of relationship between people and the environment that had its origin in the pre-Pharaonic period. The annual Nile flood had been tamed and managed for centuries by the societies of the Nile delta. However, by the nineteenth century, attempts to modernize Egypt according to Western standards l...

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... 3D models obtained by laser scanning have been used to fill a virtual environment with faithful copies of real objects, such as the interior of a museum or a historic building [24][25][26]. Photogrammetry has been used in the 3D reconstruction of objects based on one or more images for many years [27][28][29]. Active sensors can generate the dense 3D point cloud data required to create high-resolution geometric models, while digital photogrammetry is more suitable for creating highly accurate textured 3D models [30][31][32]. ...
... It is based on the TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X platform and has identical specifications which aim to create a constellation for short-term image revisit. Its potential for surface displacement (Abdikan et al., 2020, Chang andStein, 2021), archaeological analysis (Fiz et al., 2021), and combination of bistatic and repeat-pass analysis (Sica et al., 2021) were tested. However, the studies using PAZ data are still very limited in the literature. ...
... In this regard, there are few cases of similar studies, especially concerning the involvement of non-invasive methodology or Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis of the archaeological remains [1][2]. There are cases of hydraulic exploitation, but they are focused on large architectural complexes and urban supply, such as the Roman cities [3]. ...
... In 1996, a large part of the imagery was declassified and made available on the Internet; in 2002, a second part was declassified. During the past 20 years, CORONA imagery became a valuable tool for detecting different types of unknown archaeological features such as Syrian hollow ways or abandoned Iranian pastoral campsites [1,2], Southern England archaeological crop marks, and flood management landscape in the middle Nile Valley in Egypt [3,4]. Since the 1990s, historical aerial and satellite images have been used in Chinese archaeological survey projects to detect archaeological sites and map the layout of ancient settlements, especially in Xinjiang in northwest China, such as the exploration of the Beiting and Gaochang ancient city sites [5,6]. ...