ABSTRACT
Satellite Remote Sensing (SRS) has the ability to provide a great amount of information over a large area of study. SRS technology has yet to penetrate the main scientific discourse of Archaeology. Traditional limitations of SRS in Archaeology have started to dissipate with the launch of new satellite systems such as the Sentinel constellation. Traditional methods of field monitoring are costly and labour intensive, and tend to lead to the untimely detection of the destruction of cultural heritage, as was the case in many sites in Alentejo, Portugal. In this work, we discuss the potential of Sentinel 1 Synthetic Aperture Radar and Sentinel 2 Multispectral satellites as tools for heritage monitoring, use SRS to analyse the Portuguese site of Pisões, and evaluate if it is possible to build an early warning system based on SRS, in order to solve one of the greatest problems currently affecting archaeological preservation.
