ABSTRACT
The use of remote sensing has become increasingly important in archaeology. In the framework of the Ebla Chora Project, a large number of research activities have been developed using multispectral satellite images at different geometric, radiometric, and spectral resolutions. Archaeologists started using remote sensing quite early compared to scholars of other disciplines. Aerial photography was adopted at the beginning of the twentieth century to discover features not easily recognizable from the ground, and afterwards satellite imagery has become increasingly used. The increasing adoption of remote sensing in archaeology has reasons and it is reflected in different types of applications. Remote sensing is becoming an important task in archaeological missions, because it allows to study remote areas not always accessible, and because it is an excellent common ground to connect researchers from different disciplines. Satellite remote sensing can provide useful data at a local scale, that is at the scale of a single site, thanks to the availability of high-resolution images.
