Space Archaeology

Space archaeologist sarah parcak uses satellites to uncover ancient egyptian ruins.
Space archaeology. Now explorer sarah parcak is taking her groundbreaking space archaeology work to peru with the launch of globalxplorer a new and cutting edge platform that empowers citizen scientists around the world to help reduce looting and encroachment at important archaeological sites as well as discover and protect sites not known to modern archaeologists using satellite imagery. Sarah parcak wants to get that down to a few minutes. In short it most resembles the literary version of a ted talk. This talk was presented at an official ted conference and was featured by our editors on the home page.
Welcome to the 21st century world of space archaeology in which culturally important ruins can be spotted and decoded via high resolution images captured by earth orbiting satellites. Now she has bigger plans. Sarah parcak is a space archaeologist. I do not necessarily mean this in a negative sense.
It s a little disorganized and contains tons of corny one liners but still conveys the compelling enthusiasm of a scientist for her new branch of study. Parcak s yale professor warned that an archaeology student would flounder in his course which was a tangle. Help authorities get there first. Become a space archaeologist and document threats to ancient sites.
But as the literature of the scientific revolution science fiction adopts archaeological themes to illustrate the concepts of deep time and cosmic indifference as well as to provide sensawunda. Satellite imagery gives us a new tool in the global fight to protect our cultural heritage. Parcak is a space archaeologist which means she spends her days looking for buried archaeological sites in high resolution imagery. In archaeology space archaeology is the research based study of various human made items found in space their interpretation as clues to the adventures humanity has experienced in space and their preservation as cultural heritage.
In this short talk ted fellow sarah parcak introduces the field of space archaeology using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations.