The activities in Uzbekistan in the 2008 season: testing the Google Earth programme as a tool for archaeological prospecting
2009
Abstract
By analysing satellite pictures of Sherabad district in southern Uzbekistan in free available Google Earth software we managed to detect, during a short time over an area of approximately 22 x 25 km, several dozen features which might be considered archaeological sites, plus a number of uncertain features. In all, there were 150 different features, many of them previously archaeologically unknown.
The verification in the field proved positive (settlements) as well as negative results (supposed irrigation system).