ArchaeoLandscapes Europe

Frankfurt, Frankfurt Germany

Education

In many parts of Europe over the past sixty years or more archaeological air photography has brought to light more previously unknown heritage sites than any other method of exploration. Air photography has now been joined by satellite imagery, airborne laser scanning and a variety of airborne and ground-based survey techniques which are known jointly as ‘remote sensing’, since they explore what is beneath the earth or ocean without disturbing its surface or damaging what lies below. Air photography, and now these new techniques, have had a dramatic impact in illustrating to the general public the character and importance of heritage sites and of the evolving landscapes within which t