How to enhance a composite 3-band satellite image with a panchromatic band, by pan-sharpening in ArcGIS.
Category: My research
Posts about sites and projects I am or have been working on
‘I see your true colours . . ‘ creating a composite ‘true colour’ Landsat-8 satellite image of Gebel Asyut el-Gharbi
How to create a natural 'true colour' image from single Landsat-8 satellite image bands.
Five years on: Reflections on Reflectance Transformation Imaging research at Hatnub Quarry P in 2017
Reflection on reflectance transformation imaging at Hatnub in 2017
Five years on: Reflections on mobile GIS survey at Hatnub Quarry P in 2017
Results of the mobile GIS survey in 2017 at the Hatnub quarries and links to the published papers.
Foreshadowing is not just for movies: A Turin papyrus and the shrines of Tutankhamun
If this was in a movie you wouldn't believe it! Five years before the discovery of Tutankhamun, Carter's work on a plan of the tomb of Ramesses IV, revealed inexplicable features that he would one day be able to answer.
A gneiss sphinx: Is the Hazor sphinx made from Gebel el-Asr gneiss?
Does the Hazor Egyptian sphinx come from the southern Egyptian Gebel el-Asr quarries?
The cairns of the red mountain: Cairns and comparative anthropology
Cairns are a common enough feature of the Egyptian landscape, but one I find fascinating. They are apparently ordinary and innocuous, are easy to build and hard to date, and have recently been subject to the serious archaeological research they deserve (Riemer 2013). So I was intrigued to meet some very familiar looking cairns while …
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Surveying in the Mansion of Gold; The Hatnub travertine (Egyptian Alabaster) quarries near Minya
The Hatnub travertine quarries comprise an area of the Eastern desert of Egypt, roughly 17km south-east of the famous site of Amarna. Since 2012 a joint mission from the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale and the University of Liverpool have been working in the largest quarry, Quarry P (below, looking west). The primary aim of the Hatnub …
When diorite is gneiss; Products of the Gebel el-Asr quarries
Gebel el-Asr does not appear to be a typical Egyptian archaeological site. There are no pyramids (not even small mudbrick ones), no temples and no large structures. You could easily drive past it without noticing, but you will certainly have seen its products in museums and on television programmes. Gebel el-Asr is the only quarry …
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Gebel el-Asr quarries: Discovery and excavation
The Gebel el-Asr quarry is an almost invisible site in the south-west of Egypt, located some 65km north-west of Abu Simbel. It is also known as Chephren's Quarry and Chephren Diorite Quarry after the famous statue of Khafre, which is now in the Cairo Museum and was carved from stone quarried at the site. This …
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Scribe in the House of Life: Hannah Pethen Ph.D. 