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Chinese Remote Sensing Experts Discovered Oversea Silk Road Sites for the First Time

Summary: OnApril19,2018,theInstituteofRemoteSensingand DigitalEarthoftheChineseAcademyofSciences announcedthatthespacearchaeologicalresearchteam ledbyWangXinyuan,viaspacearchaeologicaltech- niques and methods, in conjunction with scientistsfrom Tunisia,ItalyandPak

On April 19, 2018, the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that the space archaeological research team led by Wang Xinyuan, via space archaeological tech- niques and methods, in conjunction with scientists from Tunisia, Italy and Pakistan, discovered 10 archaeological remains of the ancient Roman times in Tunisia at the western end of the Silk Road. This is the first time that Chinese scientists have discovered archaeological sites outside of China with remote sensing technology.

The joint archaeological research lasted over two years. In January 2016, indoor remote sensing image process- ing and interpretation analysis was conducted in Beijing. Field survey and tests were taken with local archaeolo- gists in April, November 2017, and April 2018 respec- tively. Eventually, in the southern part of Tunisia, 10 ancient Roman remains were identified, including 3 side walls, 2 military forts, 1 agricultural irrigation system, 3 water cellars, and 1 tomb. Chinese scientists firstly led the abroad joint remote sensing archaeological explora- tion of remains as well as systematic investigation with relevant Asian, European and African countries. It helps to improve the international cooperation research between scientists of Chinese and countries along the “Belt and Road” and formed a new technology and paradigm system in the field of space archaeology.

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