supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China[No.2017YFE0134400];the Jiangxi Provincial Technology Innovation Guidance Program(National Science and Technology Award Reserve Project Cultivation Program)[Grant No.20212AEI91006];the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)[Grant No.41771489].
As a World Cultural Heritage site with sacred landscape featuring an exceptional range of Buddhist art and architecture,much attention has been focused on the sustainable development of Bagan(Myanmar).Particularly,the...
the“ATHENA”project H2020-TWINN2015 of European Commission;the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under[grant agreement number 691936].
Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)[Y5YR0300QM];Youth Director Fund Category-A of Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth,CAS,and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the framework of the Great Relevance Project‘Smart management of cultural heritage sites in Italy and China:Earth Observation and pilot projects’.PALSAR data in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,China were provided by the European Space Agency(ESA)through the Category-1 Project Id.28640;Terra-SAR-X data were provided by Deutschen Zentrums für Luft-und Raumfahrt(DLR)through the TanDEM-X Science proposal CAL_VAL6905;The archaeological layer of Niya ruin was from Archaeological Institute of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,China.
Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR)remote sensing is increasingly favoured in archaeological applications.However,the effectiveness of this technology for archaeological prospection has so far not been fully assessed.In thi...
Cyprus University of Technology/Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics(Remote Sensing Laboratory)for supporting this study.They would also like to acknowledge the Geological Survey Department of Cyprus,the Department of Land and Surveys of Cyprus,the Public Works Department of Cyprus,Mr.Christos Efstathiades and Dr.Nicholas Kyriakides for their valuable contribution to specific topics of the paper.
On site observation is the most common way of monitoring cultural heritage sites and monuments in Cyprus.However,this procedure that includes data collection,periodical observations,and multivariate risk assessment an...
Digital Earth essentially consists of 3D and moreD models and attached semantic information(attributes).Techniques for generating such models efficiently are required very urgently.Reality-based 3D modelling using ima...