Geophysical remote sensing of North Carolina’s historic cultural landscapes: studies at house in the Horseshoe State historic site
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jacob Richmond Turner (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Roy Stine
Abstract: This dissertation is written in accordance with the three article option offered by the Geography Department at UNC Greensboro. It contains three manuscripts to be submitted for publication. The articles address specific research issues within the remote sensing process described by Jensen (2016) as they apply to subsurface geophysical remote sensing of historic cultural landscapes, using the buried architectural features of House in the Horseshoe State Historic Site in Moore County, North Carolina. The first article compares instrument detection capabilities by examining subsurface structure remnants as they appear in single band ground-penetrating radar (GPR), magnetic gradiometer, magnetic susceptibility and conductivity images, and also demonstrates how excavation strengthens geophysical image interpretation. The second article examines the ability of GPR to estimate volumetric soil moisture (VSM) in order to improve the timing of data collection, and also examines the visible effect of variable moisture conditions on the interpretation of a large historic pit feature, while including the relative soil moisture continuum concepts common to geography/geomorphology into a discussion of GPR survey hydrologic conditions. The third article examines the roles of scientific visualization and cartography in the production of knowledge and the presentation of maps using geophysical data to depict historic landscapes. This study explores visualization techniques pertaining to the private data exploration view of the expert, and to the simplified public facing view.
Geophysical remote sensing of North Carolina’s historic cultural landscapes: studies at house in the Horseshoe State historic site
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2017
- Keywords
- Cartography, Cultural Landscapes, Geography, Geophysical Remote Sensing, GIScience, Ground-Penetrating Radar
- Subjects
- House in the Horseshoe (N.C.)
- Cultural landscapes $z North Carolina $z Moore County
- Historic sites $z North Carolina $z Moore County
- Historical geographic information systems
- Geophysics $x Remote sensing
- Ground penetrating radar
- Soil moisture
- Cartography