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Funded by the Department of Defense Environmental Security Certification Program (ESCTP) through the US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Lab
Evaluating the eligibility of archaeological sites for the National Register of Historic Places in compliance with federal law is an ongoing activity at DoD installations. The Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development (SERDP) project CS-1263 New Approaches to the Use and Integration of Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Historic Resource Identification and Evaluation demonstrated that use of remote sensing techniques can reduce the invasiveness of excavation and dramatically improve the reliability of National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) evaluations. The project developed new methods for integrating data collected by multiple sensors that dramatically enhance their information content and resource management value.
This ESTCP project has two objectives:
1) Assemble a single software package, ArchaeoMapper™, that will serve as an effective medium for infusing the integrated, multi-sensor geophysical approach into wide use.
2) Demonstrate and validate the cost and performance benefits of the approach and technology infusion tool, in conjunction with the annual National Park Service (NPS) Current Archeological Prospection Advances for Non-destructive Investigations in the 21st Century Workshop.
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