Multitemporal Satellite Images for Knowledge of the Assyrian Capital Cities and for Monitoring Landscape Transformations in the Upper Course of Tigris River

Figure 6

Remains of Assyrian and Islamic canals along the eastern bank of the Tigris, between Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (A) and Tell Haikal (B), in a pan-sharpened (bands 3-2-1) QuickBird-2 image of 2002: 1, Pattu-mēšari; 2, Nahr Qanausa; 3, off-takes or secondary branches of the Nahr Qanausa. On the west bank of the river is Tell Khuwaish (C).