Radar Remote Sensing of the Sahara Landscape
Conference: EUSAR 2012 - 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
04/23/2012 - 04/26/2012 at Nuremberg, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2012
Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Farr, Tom G. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
Paillou, Philippe (Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers, University of Bordeaux, France)
Abstract:
It has been 30 years since the discovery of buried river valleys in the eastern Sahara with the first Shuttle Imaging Radar. Since then, studies have continued with SIR-B and SIR-C as well as other radar systems. In addition, old lake shorelines have been found using SRTM topographic data and other satellite images. All of these studies paint a picture of wetter climates in the Sahara’s past, a fact known to archaeologists, who have found evidence of human occupation along the shores of the lakes and rivers at various times over the past few hundred thousand years.