Frozen: The Potential and Pitfalls of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Archaeology in the Alaskan Arctic

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Thomas M. Urban, Jeffrey T. Rasic, Claire Alix, Douglas D. Anderson, Sturt W. Manning, Owen K. Mason, Andrew H. Tremayne, Christopher B. Wolff
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2016
• Subjects: ground-penetrating radar; Alaska; Arctic; permafrost; mammoth; Bering Land Bridge; Science; Q; Cape Krusenstern; Ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8121007; https://doaj.org/article/3d6e86a983494bd9b8f121ad96172d4c

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) offers many advantages for assessing archaeological potential in frozen and partially frozen contexts in high latitude and alpine regions. These settings pose several challenges for GPR, including extreme velocity changes at the interface of frozen and active layers, c...