Multitemporal Satellite Images for Knowledge of the Assyrian Capital Cities and for Monitoring Landscape Transformations in the Upper Course of Tigris River
Figure 4
(a) Corona KH-4B image of 1967 and (b) pan-sharpened (bands 3-2-1) QuickBird-2 image of 2002 showing the area of Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta. In the old space photo, the remains of the ancient capital city are well visible: (1) north Palace; (2) Ashur Temple and Ziggurat; (3) south Palace; (4) city walls; (5) Assyrian canals; (6) Islamic canals.
