Remote Sensing (Investigation Type)

Investigations that involve the use of aerial or satellite sensor technologies to detect, describe, or classify objects on Earth (e.g. LIDAR, photographic, radar, or spectral methods).

226-250 (761 Records)

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 14, Old Mobile (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (2003)
DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums. Diane Silvia. Marvin Smith.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 14, Old Mobile Site (1MB94).


Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 30, Old Mobile (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (1996)
DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 30, Old Mobile Site (1MB94).


Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 31, Old Mobile (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (2002)
DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 31, Old Mobile Site (1MB94).


Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 32, Old Mobile (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (2007)
DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums.

Field Specimen Catalog for Structure 32, Old Mobile (1MB94).


Final Cultural Resource Survey, Proposed USPFO Facility, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Morgan R. Blanchard. Jamie J. Oakley.

The Alaska Army National Guard (AKARNG) proposed to build a new United States Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO) at Camp Denali on Joint Base Elmendorf Fort Richardson (JBER), (formed by administratively combining Elmendorf Air Force Base-EAFB and Fort Richardson), near Anchorage, Alaska. Some surface and subsurface remains associated with the Army's Fort Richardson facility and the National Guard's Camp Denali and Camp Carroll facility may be present on the APE. The AKARNG had contracted with...


Final Historic Building Inventory and Evaluation of King Salmon Airport, Alaska (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text 611th Civil Engineer Squadron.

This report presents the results of an inventory and evaluation of buildings and structures at King Salmon Airport, Alaska. During the Cold War (1946-1989), King Salmon Air Force Station (AFS) supported the air intercept defense mission of the Alaskan Air Command (AAC). Seventy-one buildings and structures at King Salmon Airport were inventoried and evaluated for potential inclusion in the National Register. The 611th Air Support Group has determined that the forward operating bases in Alaska...


Final Report (Public Version): Underwater Archeological Monitoring at Site 41OR90 for Construction of the I-10 Neches River Bridge (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mason Miller. Sara M. Parkin. Joseph J. Grinnan. Jeffrey M. Enright. Aaron Norment.

Underwater archeologists from AmaTerra Environmental, Inc. and SEARCH, Inc. (the Team) conducted underwater archeological monitoring of Site 41OR90 on behalf of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for the Interstate Highway 10 Neches River Bridge Construction Project (TxDOT CSJ 0028-09-111). Site 41OR90 is a submerged World War I, Emergency Fleet Corporation vessel in the Neches river at Beaumont, Texas. It is considered eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places...


Final Report of Specific Purpose LiDAR Survey, including LiDAR-Generated Brake Lines and Contours for Brevard County, Florida (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David F. Maune.

This report pertains to a Specific Purpose LiDAR Survey of Brevard County, Florida.


Final Report on the Carbonized Wood Remains from the Matacanela Site, Veracruz, Mexico (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Renee M. Bonzani.

This report describes the carbonized heavy fraction wood remains recovered from fifty-five samples from seven units (Units TA1, 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4A and 4B)(Table 1) and the carbonized wood remains recovered from the light fractions of flotation from fifty samples from six units (Units TA1, 1B, 1C, 2, 3, and 4B)(Table 2) collected during the excavations of the Matacanela Site in Veracruz, Mexico. One thousand four hundred and nine carbonized wood fragments (<7.9 grams) were heavy fractions from...


Final Report: Archaeological Pedestrian Survey of Mt. Ka'ala and Koke'e LRRSs, Hawaii (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Diane K. Hanson.

An archaeological pedestrian survey was conducted at Mt. Ka‘ala Long Range Radar Station (LRRS) on July 12, 2016 and at Kōke‘e LRRS, Hawai‘i on July 14 and 15, 2016. The perimeters of the compounds were inspected, but most attention was on the leased properties outside the fence at both radar stations. No cultural properties were identified outside the fence line at either LRRS, and the only properties noted within each compound were those already described in the 2008 draft ICRMP. ...


Final Report: Phase II National Register Eligibility Assessments at Twelve Archaeological Sites, Arnold Air Force Base, Coffee and Franklin Counties, Tennessee (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Stallings. Susan C. Andrews. Dawn M. Bradley. Steven A. Martin. Stephen T. Mocas. Kim Simpson.

Summary of findings for Phase II investigations of 12 sites on Arnold Air Force Base in Coffee and Franklin Counties, Tennessee. The Phase II investigations served to both confirm previously identified cultural components and identify previously unrecorded occupations. Of the 12 sites investigated, only 40CF124 is recommended as eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).


Flaked Lithic Debitage (1985)
DATASET Carl J. Phagan.

The Reductive Technologies Group (RTG) was responsible for supporting the broad research goals of the DAP through the implementation of a mid-level research design governing the collection and analysis of data from “artifacts which were manufactured by reductive, or subtractive techniques” (Phagan 1986a:79). Independent datasets for each of the four preliminary analysis systems reflect the technological distinctions made between flaked lithic tools (FLT10a and FLT10b); the debitage created in...


Forensic Investigation of a Mass Grave Complex, Muthanna Province, Iraq (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael K. Trimble. Caroline Steele. Susan Malin-Boyce. David Z. C. Hines.

Executive Summary 1. Muthanna0002 was the name used to designate a mass grave complex southeast of the town of As Samawah, Muthanna Province, Iraq. The Muthanna0002 graves were initially discovered around 1998 by Bedouin herders. Coalition forces were first informed of the site’s existence in May 2003, at which time the I MEF Mass Gravesite Assessment Team, Task Force – Justice, under Major Alvin Schmidt, conducted a Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE). The team categorized the alleged mass...


Forensic Investigation of a Reported Mass Grave, Nasiriyah, Iraq (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael K. Trimble.

1. Dhi Qar 0008 (DQR0008) is a reported mass grave site on the grounds of the former General Security Service (GSS) building, located on the west bank of the Euphrates River, along the southwest margin of the city of An Nasiriyah. On 13 April 2005, during backhoe operations being carried out at the direction of the landowner, the location was discovered to contain the remains of multiple individuals. Local investigators reported to the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) that 28 remains were excavated...


Forensic Investigation of Mass Grave KAR0024, Karbala Province, Iraq (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael K. Trimble. Mark A. Smith. David Z. C. Hines. Nancy J. Brighton. Caroline Steele.

Executive Summary: 1. Tar-as-Saiyid is a prominent escarpment located in a remote desert area approximately 27 kilometers southwest of the city of Karbala. The escarpment lies along an area that was previously the site of an Iraqi military range in a region also known as Tall Tar and Ashwah. The I Marine Expeditionary Force, Task Force Justice (I MEF), the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), and Inforce Foundation investigated several sites in the area in 2003. 2. On 14 May 2006,...


Four Disposal Areas, Three Water-Control Structures and a Portion of the Tallahatchie River
PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. Charles E. Pearson.

The first step in the rehousing process is to obtain copies of cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the St. Louis District archivist processing the archival collection. The analytical techniques employed by each organization to recover and process the collections were reviewed to gain familiarity with the archaeological work that had been conducted on the sites. The investigation, titled Tallahatchie River Survey, came to St....


FTIR reflectance spectral chert database (2012)
DATASET Ryan Parish.

Hyper-spectral data obtained from 121 chert samples: 60 Ft Payne (30 from Elco, IL; 30 from Florence, AL), 60 Dover (30 from the Brigham Quarry site, TN; 30 from the Thompson Hollow Quarry site, TN), and a single Mookaite chert sample from Australia used as a control. Also included in the spreadsheet are spectral averages of each sample set from a single location. I sheet is 10 spectra taken from a single Dover chert sample and 4 spectra from three color zones in the Mookaite sample....


General Excavation Photos from Structure 32 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (2007)
IMAGE Gregory Waselkov.

Excavation photos from Structure 32 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94).


General Resources from the Long Term Vulnerability and Transformation Project
PROJECT Margaret Nelson. National Science Foundation.

Long-Term Coupled Socioecological Change in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico: Each generation transforms an inherited social and environmental world and leaves it as a legacy to succeeding generations. Long-term interactions among social and ecological processes give rise to complex dynamics on multiple temporal and spatial scales – cycles of change followed by relative stasis, followed by change. Within the cycles are understandable patterns and irreducible uncertainties; neither...


Geoarchaeological Assessment for the Tres Rios Project, Maricopa County, Arizona (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Onken. Michael R. Waters. Jeffrey A. Homburg.

Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), under subcontract to ASM Affiliates, conducted geoarchaeological investigations in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) Tres Rios project area. The Tres Rios project involves flood control, wetland restoration, water reclamation and reuse (creation of wetland, marsh, and open water areas), and construction of a pipeline and levees. The project area is located in central Arizona in the area surrounding the confluence of the Salt, Gila, and Agua Fria Rivers....


Geophysical Investigations at Huffar Cemetery Arnold Air Force Base Coffee and Franklin Counties, Tennessee - Final Report (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Duane Simpson.

In March 2010, AMEC Earth & Environmental conducted archaeo-geophysical investigations at Huffar Cemetery at Arnold Air Force Base, which consisted of magnetic and electrical resistance surveys covering a total area of approximately 0.44 acres. The purpose of the survey was to attempt to define the breadth of potential historic graves located at the cemetery, and provide a maximum approximate boundary for said graves. This information allows the base to more confidently use areas adjacent to...


Geophysical Prospection And Archeological Investigations Of The Proposed Bridge Replacement, Entrance Road Realignment, And New Visitor Parking Lot Project At The Fort Larned National Historic Site, 14PA305, Pawnee County, Kansas (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. Albert M. LeBeau III.

The National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center staff with Volunteer- In-Parks participants conducted geophysical investigations of the underground electric line installation construction project at the Fort Larned National Historic Site (14PA305) in Pawnee County, Kansas. The geophysical investigations were conducted between July 13 and July 18, 2009. The investigations were requested by the FOLS resource manager at the Fort Larned National Historic Site. The project was located along...


Glass Beads from Old Mobile Structure 01 (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (1989)
DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Diane Silvia.

Glass beads recovered from Structure 01 at the Old Mobile Site (1MB94).


Glass Beads from Old Mobile Structure 02 (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (1990)
DATASET Gregory Waselkov. Diane Silvia.

Glass beads recovered from Structure 02 at the Old Mobile Site (1MB94).


GPR Investigations at 38CH895 I’On Cemetery (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gwendolyn Burns. Emily Jateff.

"Brockington and Associates, Inc., was contracted by the I’On Group to conduct a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey of the I’On Cemetery (38CH895). The site is located one-half mile northwest of the I’On Village complex."