Remote sensing is well demonstrated to be a powerfull tool for the assessment of damage in warfare areas. As we did in our first experience in Nineveh, the first phase of our research, from early 2019 to January 2020, we produced a geo-database of archaeological evidence and damage in Hatra.
Analysis of the satellite imagery was based on the WorldView archive collections, comparing panchromatic and multispectral images captured on June 19, 2013 (WorldView-2), before the occupation by ISIS, with images taken on April 6, 2015 (WorldView-3).
Recently, we collected further historical aerial photography and satellite imagery
- 1928 October 23 by O.G.S. Crawford
- 1938 May 11 by A. Stein
- 1953 Aereosurveys by J. Bradford
- 1967 December 11 by Corona KH-4B
- 1985 December 31
- 2011 November 7
- 2012 February 12
- 2012 June 19
- 2015 March 10
- 2015 March 21
- 2015 March 23
- 2015 March 24
- 2015 March 31
- 2015 April 6
- 2015 April 17
- 2019 October 12
- 2019 December 2
- 2020 November 4
Two full coverages of the whole city were collected by drone during fieldwork in 2020 and 2021 (Orthophoto and Digital Surface Model)
- 2020 February 10-18
- 2021 October 24-25
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