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

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Thomas Urban, Jeffrey Rasic, Claire Alix, Douglas Anderson, Sturt Manning, Owen Mason, Andrew Tremayne, Christopher Wolff
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2016
• Subjects: ground-penetrating radar; Alaska; Arctic; permafrost; mammoth; Bering Land Bridge; Cape Krusenstern; Ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8121007

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...