Open AccessIdentificando áreas de actividad a través del uso de GPR en la costa del Soconusco
Author(s) -
Marx Navarro Castillo,
Héctor Neff
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
estudios de cultura maya
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.226
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2448-5179
pISSN - 0185-2574
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.ecm.55.2020.0002
Subject(s) - ground penetrating radar , human settlement , visibility , remote sensing , lidar , archaeology , geography , identification (biology) , geology , radar , meteorology , computer science , ecology , telecommunications , biology
This article is focused on the importance of remote sensing techniques for archaeological studies, specifically LiDAR, and geophysics techniques, such as ground penetrating radar (GPR). The use of LiDAR has become popular in the last ten years and its use in forested places has been very effective despite the low visibility. In the case of GPR, it is generally used in those places where evidence of structure remains can be found. However, in the sites identified by the Project Costa del Soconusco there are no buildings with these characteristics, but their usefulness for the identification of areas of ceramic production have been decisive for the development of our study. These techniques have provided important data that has allowed us to know more about the settlements located in the eastern region of Soconusco.