Books for Surveying and Mapping/GIS Courses

Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology

By Sarah H. Parcak

This handbook is the first comprehensive overview of the field of satellite remote sensing for archaeology and how it can be applied to ongoing archaeological fieldwork projects across the globe. It provides a survey of the history and development of the field, connecting satellite remote sensing...

Published March 30th 2009 by Routledge

Archaeological Surveying and Mapping

Recording and Depicting the Landscape

By Philip Howard

A comprehensive and practical guide to surveying for archaeologists, with clear instructions in archaeological mapping, recording field work and detailed case studies from the UK, Europe and the US. Philip Howard provides a user’s guide to methods and instruments of surveying to enable...

Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

GIS and Archaeological Site Location Modeling

Edited by Mark W. Mehrer, Konnie L. Wescott

Although archaeologists are using GIS technology at an accelerating rate, publication of their work has not kept pace. A state-of-the-art exploration the subject, GIS and Archaeological Site Location Modeling pulls together discussions of theory and methodology, scale, data, quantitative methods,...

Published December 20th 2005 by CRC Press