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An application of integration approaches for archaeo‐geophysical data: Case study from Aizanoi
Author(s) -
Küçükdemirci Melda,
Özer Elif,
Piro Salvatore,
Baydemir Niyazi,
Zamuner Daniela
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
archaeological prospection
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.785
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1099-0763
pISSN - 1075-2196
DOI - 10.1002/arp.1583
Subject(s) - ground penetrating radar , geophysics , computer science , field (mathematics) , set (abstract data type) , data integration , geophysical survey , geology , data mining , radar , remote sensing , telecommunications , mathematics , pure mathematics , programming language
Transforming multi‐dimensional datasets, containing measurements of different physical parameters recorded at the same location, into a single composite imagery is quite important and frequently used in geophysical analysis as well as other scientific disciplines. This study focuses on the application of several different integration approaches for archaeo‐geophysical data with a purpose of achieving complementary and improved information about the buried archaeological target by generating a single data set from multiple geophysical methods. An extensive geophysical survey using ground penetrating radar (GPR) and differential magnetic methods was made in different parts of the Aizanoi archaeological site (Cavdarhisar, Kutahya, Turkey) to locate and enhance subsurface archaeological structures. However, in this article, the outputs of graphical, mathematical and statistical integration approaches, which are applied both on synthetic images and real field case data, are presented and discussed. Comparing these results and experimental applications, mathematical and statistical integration approaches provide more useful and practicable information than just the single distinct datasets from each geophysical parameter studied.