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DOCUMENT Full-Text James I. Ebert. Melvin L. Fowler. George J. Gumerman. Elmer Jr. Harp. Laurence D. Kruckman. Thomas R. Lyons. Allan D. Marmelstein. William Meyer. Gary W. North. Henry T. Svehlak. Louis James Tartaglia. John A. Ware. Robert K. Hitchcock.

Today the term remote sensing is generally understood as a technique for the acquisition of environmental data by means of non-contact instruments operating in various regions of the electromagnetic spectrum from air and space platforms. The resultant information may be in the form of a pictorial record or digitized data on tape. In a larger context, however, remote sensing can be considered as a discipline in and of itself with its own peculiar methods, objectives and goals. In this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Berle Clay.

From May 17 through May 23, 2003, the author with the assistance of staff of Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., workshop participants, and in cooperation with Dr. Rinita Dalan of Minnesota State University, collected near-surface geophysical data at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois. This work, in connection with the National Park Service workshop, “Current Archaeological Prospection Advances for Non-Destructive Investigations in the 21st Century,” combined electromagnetic...