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Page 1: Remote Sensing as a crucial tool for Cultural Heritage ... · Copernicus and Cultural Heritage Workshop –Dr. Dr. h. c. Margarete van Ess Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Partners

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Copernicus and Cultural Heritage Workshop – Dr. Dr. h. c. Margarete van Ess

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

Remote Sensing as a crucial tool for Cultural Heritage preservation: case studies from the Near East

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Copernicus and Cultural Heritage Workshop – Dr. Dr. h. c. Margarete van Ess

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

DAI Arbeitsgebiete

The German Archaeological Institute

A research institution under the remit of the German Foreign Office

www.dainst.de

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At present 36 projects in

Near Eastern Countries

Scientific Research

Preservation projects

Presentation projects

Baalbek / Lebanon Uruk / Iraq

Gadara / Jordan Resafa / Syria

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Syrien: Dura Europos – important site dating c. 300 BC – 273 ADSource: Homepage Bureau of educational and cultural affairs, US Department of State, Syria Cultural Heritage Initiative

Archaeological sites in periods of conflict:

Major problem: illegal diggings

Comparison of Satellite imagery : June 2012 – April 2014

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Why are illegal diggings so destructive?

Prefered material in the Ancient Near East: mud

brick

Will be completely destroyed

Uruk/Southern Iraq,

famous architectural remains 3300 BC

Isin, Capital in Southern Iraq 2. mill. BC

Photo: J. Russell Photo: DAI

Photo: M. van Ess DAI/UNESCO

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Map of illegal diggings in Southern Iraq,

As of 2006Source: E. Stone, Stony Brook University

Source: Joanne Farchakh

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Archaeological site Southern Iraq in 2001 and in 2005

Semi-automated detection of looting activities

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Semi-automated detection of looting activities –

a project of

German Archaeological Institute / Bavarian State Dept. of Monuments and Sites Munich / German

Aerospace Center, DLR-DFD, Oberpfaffenhofen / Definiens AG, Munich / European Space Imaging, EUSI,

Munich

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Semi-automated detection of looting activities

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Hatra (Iraq) announced to be destroyed

BBC, 7th March 2015

Similar news worldwide

Nimrud (Iraq) announced to be destroyed

New York Times, 5th March 2015

Source: Homepage BBC Source: Homepage NYT

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Partners

► German Aerospace Center in Munich

► German Archaeological Institute Berlin

► European Space Imaging Munich

Evaluation of

Fake news / rumors about the destruction of cultural heritage using remote sensing data

S. Plank, G. Strunz, M. van Ess, P. Richardson

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Source:

Top: Google Earth

Below: M. van Ess

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Source:

ISIS propaganda film 11. April 2015

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Nimrud, North Western palace

Satellite image 8. June 2013

Source: (GeoEye-1/

©European Space Imaging

/DigitalGlobe)

Satellite image 20. April 2015

Source : WorldView-2,

©European Space Imaging /

DigitalGlobe

Satellite image 1. April 2015

Source : WorldView-2,

©European Space Imaging

/DigitalGlobe

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World Heritage Hatra (1.-3. c. AD)

source:

ISIS propaganda film 4. April 2015

Evaluation of satellite imagery

Hatra between 7th of March and 4th of April:

architectural structures remain intact

► most probably the propaganda film of ISIS is correct: between 7th of March and 4th of April

the décor of the buildings has been destroyed but the buildings themselves remain intact

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Source : Michael Danti 2010: http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org/special-

report-update-on-the-situation-in-palmyra/Source: Wikimedia Commons

Palmyra (Syria)

Source : S. Plank /

©European Space Imaging / DigitalGlobe

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Source: J. Leissner,

Cultural Heritage: an important economic factor

in Europe (2007)