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2006.
AUTOMATIC HERITAGE OBSERVATION AND RETRIEVAL UNDER SAND USING A SHAPE DETECTION ALGORITHM WITH SATELLITE IMAGES
An application is presented for the automatic identification of lost or undiscovered archaeological sites in Egypt using a shape detection technique on satellite Earth observation (EO) imagery superimposed in a geographic information system (GIS) environment. The implementation of a shape detection algorithm that employs an operator matched to the shape of buried archaeological structures is described. The implementation is based upon the optimal edge-based shape detection approach described by [1]. The algorithm is applied to EO images and the results are presented.